Comment by effnamecheap
5 years ago
Simply an American, and I’ll be moving my dozen domains off of Namecheap.
Attacking random Russians for something you don’t like of their leader is as dumb as post-9/11 Sikh bashing or interning German/Italian/Japanese after Pearl Harbor and the war declaration.
Way to make a shit situation worse.
It seems it would be completely logical to also boycott the European countries that are actively funding the Russian government with the billions of dollars that are given directly to the state, through the state owned Russian gas companies. If I'm reading this right, ~582bn~ 7bn USD (thanks Jabbles!) for just a few month last year: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/13/gazprom-hits-r...
I think it makes sense that the European people should also feel the immediate pressure for actively funding the war for the foreseeable future. They're an absolutely massive income stream, and should be part of the collateral, especially since they've been warned about this for decades now.
I would be interested in seeing a counter argument to this.
You are not reading that right: 582bn rubles, probably $7B before the recent crash.
As an American, this affirms Namecheap as my first choice.
I would do everything in my power to isolate and fight against a country engaging in a war of conquest in the modern era. For me it would not be a choice.
You do realize we’ve toppled more unfavorable to us regimes than anyone in the past ~120 or so years, right? The real difference is that no one can really pull the rug out from under us, but that’s changing because we’ve offshored so much, hoping that if anything our world beating military would intervene.
Russia has attacked over 1000 of namecheap’s employees.
It's a sanction. Meant to cause contention within their society to promote regime change. Think of it as tough love.
If you look at what both Europe and Ukraine is doing right now with sanctions, they're being a bit more clever.
- You want to turn Russians against Putin, yes. But you don't want to have those same people hate Ukraine/US.
- For example, sanctioning a hospital or stopping sales of food or medical supplies into Russia would be a stupid sanction. Forbidding oligarchs from living luxury lives in Europe is a good one.
- Right now, most sanctions are focused on the wealthy and influential Russians, since those are the ones that have any sway.
- My guess is that the vast majority of Namecheap customer's are exactly the ones that will protest against Putin, or organize information campaigns aginst him.
- Obviously sanctioning Kasparov or Navalny would be the dumbest move. This is sort of in that same category.
As an American I neither believe in such group punishment no any “guilty for sins of the father.”
If you live in your father’s home while he is murdering your neighbors for their land, you do have a responsibility to stop him or share in his fate.
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