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2022-03-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

‘Digging In’: Koch Bros., also Oilfield & Agribusiness Giants Remaining in Russia (Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Bayer)

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Posted by Chusoger Thrusosh4089 2022-03-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 "Hall of Shame" - LOL

These are supremely rational people, some of the smartest businessmen on the planet.

No privately-held company in America has come even close to the returns on invested capital achieved by the Koch Brothers over the last 30 years. "Beyond phenomenal," per Roger Altman.

Ditto for Mulliez ('Auchan' holding company) in France. And Halliburton & Schlumberger's investors are very happy indeed.

What a carnival of stupidity and self-destruction we in the West are witnessing

Posted by Blackbeard Gravitle2000 2022-03-22 00:34|| 2022-03-22 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Rational and wise are not necessarily the same thing. Ditto smart and wise. I’m not arguing on one side or the other in this situation, but business manager types sometimes get so caught up in being rational and smart that they lose track of other factors. I’ll just wish all involved on all sides the best of luck that things work out as they hope, not as they fear.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-22 01:51|| 2022-03-22 01:51|| Front Page Top

#3 "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." ― Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-22 08:30|| 2022-03-22 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Yale School of Management's Dean Jeffrey Sonnenfeld laments "the religion of the free market.”
🤣 Only at Yale...

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Elmoter9992 2022-03-22 08:41|| 2022-03-22 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Well said TW but you omit their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. That and the reality is some forces are effectively trying to cancel not the Russian military or leadership but every Russian citizen they possibly can.

I also have to ask, when did it become the 'right thing to do' to commandeer private citizens money and property regardless of nationality without any due process. Equally to unilaterally break contracts. No law, statute, or even emergency order has been invoked to steal from ordinary citizens.

Before during and after the Revolutionary War George Washington, John Adams and many other American patriots well known on both sides of the Atlantic had accounts at the Bank of England. Those accounts were never touched by the Crown or bank management.

Nobody wants to see Ukrainians suffer, neither Ivan. But there is something else going on here more akin to mob behavior than not. If you think it is somehow reserved for Russian nationals, well if they can so readily steal from a billionaire, what do you think that means for the rest of us? Oh, and how's that schedule coming along for the global population divesting itself of everything, happily of course?

Posted by Cesare 2022-03-22 08:54|| 2022-03-22 08:54|| Front Page Top

#6 I also have to ask, when did it become the 'right thing to do' to commandeer private citizens money and property regardless of nationality without any due process.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls

Posted by Daffy and Company2015 2022-03-22 09:44|| 2022-03-22 09:44|| Front Page Top

#7 At the gerbil elite and academic levels, property is theft. Except for theirs. Yours is up for grabs, prole...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-22 09:49|| 2022-03-22 09:49|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Yes, money and land. You should have none. I should have it all.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-22 09:51|| 2022-03-22 09:51|| Front Page Top

#9 I do have it all. Now shut up and eat your bio-burger.

Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?

Posted by Farmer Bill Gates 2022-03-22 10:06|| 2022-03-22 10:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Actually I think the war is over by now?

Seeing the news stations at the gym for an hour or so, there was no mention of it at all on any of the stations. It was all Ketanji all the time. So I guess the war is over, and everyone can go back to Russia now?

Posted by Tom 2022-03-22 11:41|| 2022-03-22 11:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Whatever it is, I SUPPORT THE CURRENT THING
🌈✊🏾🇺🇦👩🏾‍🏫

Posted by Spinenter Grerenter6527 2022-03-22 14:57|| 2022-03-22 14:57|| Front Page Top

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