Pretty sure Ukrainians would be glad to give their Kinguin accounts in exchange of Russian Army withdrawal.
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I'm amazed how people here can't make up their minds. On the one hand we have some, laughing about those sanctions because they'd have no effect at all. Just for others to bemoan how cruel and harsh these decisions would be, resulting in comparisons even with the Treaty of Versailles.
Very reasonable and measured judgments, as usual. And nobody came up with any better alternatives. Unless "do nothing at all" is an suggestion.
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One should go after the elites, not the people. The oligarchs aren't going to care about videos games. They have the secret police, why should they care about some gamers? Throw in some propaganda about how the "evil west wants to destroy Russia" and they'll be fine.
Losing their oil money and fancy yachts though? That might get their attention.
One does not want to risk giving the regime propaganda material that they can use to create an Us vs Them mentality, and that's what going after the people could result in.
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This already happens. And has happened since 2014. Obviously it wasn't enough.
And why shouldn't average Russians feel any consequences of being at war while the Ukrainians suffer?
Ultimately the actions of a government are also the responsibilities of the people they represent, And just as we Germans couldn't exclusively blame Hitler and his buddies for our sins, Russians need to learn how the world rates the actions of their government. We've been patient long enough.
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Was Russian Oil still being bought? Perhaps that's why it "wasn't enough"?
There's consequences of war, and then there's getting singled out by foreign countries that aren't even Ukrainian. That might just result in an increase of tensions.
The Germans didn't have nukes, did they? Now is not the time to give the Kremlin the means to create a victimhood narrative, just as Hitler did with the Treaty of Versailles.
We're not dealing with the end of a war here, we're dealing with the potential start of a new one.
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If we want to use parallels from the past, appeasement over the Sudetenland is a much better match to what you suggest than the Versailles Treaty to the sanctions we have initiated. You are right about a potential new war, you are just wrong about how to prevent it.
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How is that a better parallel? Who's handing Ukraine over to Putin?
How am I wrong about how to prevent it? Explain how giving the Kremlin propaganda material by feeding into the narrative that the West is against Russia and wants to destroy it with NATO is going to deescalate tensions.
Just to clarify, I'm not against official sanctions. I'm against petty nonsense like going after small businesses, banning Russian books, athletes or going after Russian customers. That's not going to help at all and just feed into paranoia.
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As if the Kremlin propaganda would need material. They've clearly shown that they are creative enough to justify even a war against "brothers". And have you missed Putin's speech days before the invasion? He clearly threatened all other former Soviet republics.
Sorry, you clearly analyze this from the wrong end.
Edit: I don't see how small business making their own independent decisions should be anything like the Treat of Versaille or help Putin.
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Except this time the Kremlin would have "evidence" to back up their propaganda, making it all the more effective.
You don't see how a bunch of foreign companies going after Russian customers is going to feed into an Us vs Them mentality?
Or banning Russian books and cats? Or just Russophobia in general?
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This works on the other side, too:
We all have evidence now that Ukraine was right when they feared Russia and thus wanted to get into the NATO.
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So your solution is to take 6 years to hurt the filthy rich, instead of forcing a revolution in a few weeks by sanctioning the dirt poor?
War is dirty business, and I'd rather be poor but alive Russian (and angry at the West), than be a dead Ukrainian.
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What makes you think there will be a revolution in a few weeks? North Korea and Iran has been sanctioned for decades. Has there been a revolution? Isn't Putin a dictator with secret police and a propaganda department who's been repressing opposition for years?
Why do you think it will suddenly be different this time?
What if those poor and angry Russians later think in the future "you know what, screw these guys, I'm using nukes."
Think about long term consequences.
What makes you think that it will take 6 years for the elites to change things? You do realize it's only now that the West has caught on that it probably shouldn't buy oil from a dictator, and that the elites' money comes from oil?
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Saw this when I was waiting at the DMV.
https://www.gog.com/index.php/en/news/suspending_sales_in_russia_and_belarus
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Almost 7000 Russian scientists ask to end the invasion, Lukoil asks for it too. Looks to me like it's working. We'll see how the anvil (Ukraine) will do in the next days, weeks, months. Looks like they'll just sit most of it out and Russia might ask itself what the hell is going on there.
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And another idiot company chooses to escalate... Then they'll cry that more Russians support the war...
If noone tries to be the bigger man, Fallout 4 will turn from game to training simulation :x
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Escalate? That's not how sanctions work. They're supposed to make the ordinary people feel uncomfortable enough that they'll stop and take a look at what their government is doing. Not being able to buy a few cheap games isn't going to do that on it's own, but when they're being met with this everywhere, maybe.
A few thousand people protesting isn't going to do much, but millions putting pressure on him to stop? Putin can't ignore or put millions of his own people in prison. That's what needs to happen. Without it, there's no way that Putin will draw back his horns.
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Or it could have the opposite effect and they start thinking he's right about NATO.
They'll hate him, but they'll hate us more. Tyrants thrive on that sort of hate.
Never underestimate the power of propaganda.
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+1. Many people in Russia oppose the war already, or don't care much about it. But if the western world mistreats them, they may well start to think "OK, we don't like Putin much but maybe he's right about those western assholes who steal out money and ban us everywhere".
The same is true the other way around also. When Putin sells his gas to China instead of Europe and we see energy prices skyrocket, more people here will hate Russia.
And so both sides escalate and if this goes on long enough we know where this is going...
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Many people oppose the war, but let it happen because of a fear of their own government, so nothing changes.
You want the killing to continue, the fear to continue, because you think it will make the government propaganda worse?
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You're making the wild assumption that shutting people off a gamestore will suddenly give them "courage" to face death or life imprisonment penalties, to protest a war against the assholes who ban them for their shops...
I mean, surely it will work on a handful of people this way. But probably really not many.
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If the government propaganda gets worse that's more recruits for the Russian Army. That would most certainly allow the killing to continue.
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Almost 7000 Russian scientists ask to end the invasion, Lukoil asks for it too. Looks to me like it's working
Yeah, scientists and oligarchs were clearly driven to it by fear of losing their Kinguin accounts. sarcasm
Spoiler: tens of thousands of specialists from different fields are signing public letters to our government from the first day of the war. I myself have tried to contact some influential companies like Yandex and embassies of the countries like China that still supporting our regime with silence, asking them to put some pressure on kremlin.
But blocking self-employed people and small businesses, banning paralympic athletes, stealing money from models and porn actresses, and restricting access to games/music/movies/services — won't change a f*ck. It's cheap marketing and discrimination (and downright thievery in some cases).
If you really want to help Ukraine — you can donate all the earnings from Russian users to Ukraine. Not to stigmatize everyonу at once.
P.S.: I completely understand the anger from Ukrainians towards Russia due to recent events. But a lot of Western politicians and companies, especially the ones from the EU and UK, were supporting this regime for all those years. Oligarchs, corrupt politicians and propagandists from Russia have villas, castles, businesses, giant yachts and luxury cars in those countries and everyone turned a blind eye to it. So the hatred from the citizens of these countries is quite remarkable.
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But a lot of Western politicians and companies, especially the ones from the EU and UK, were supporting this regime for all those years.
That's kinda funny. The regime was criticized for actions before (the way it's treating the opposition, freedom of press, elections, conflicts etc.), not only by NGOs, but also politicians and ordinary people (at least here). The explanation to keep up business was always that they try to point the Russian goverment on these issues and ask for improvements, which then would lead to even better relations (political and economical). And I agree on that, because dialogue is always better than nothing. What would have been the alternative? Isolating Russia already 10 years ago? Although it's even now perceived as wrong?
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The pressure on Russian elites and reduction of the dependence over our resources — is the thing our opposition was pleading for years. Yet no one has listened.
This regime was a threat not only to Ukrainians or our own people but to the whole Europe. And Europe supported it with money and technologies. Nord Stream 2, gas, oil and other resources; trade and meetings; luxurious property and passports bought on bloody money. Not to mention all European pro-Russian politics that tend to get high positions in our state-owned businesses for their help and loyalty.
And now our government is clearly saying that the insane amount of money gained from the high gas&oil prices is going to cover military expenses and sanctions in this war. So, Europe and China were basically paying for repressions of opposition, brainwashing of our people and wars started by the kremlin.
But, I guess, for the majority of people it's easy to blame every Russian, turning a blind eye on the consequences of your own actions.
And now even Grammarly blocked all Russian users, to make it more difficult to communicate with the rest of the world. This is fucking ridiculous.
UPD: And, yeah, when you say that you are Russian and that you are against the war in Ukraine — both sides will continue to add you to their blacklists. The giveaways doesn't even matter anymore, but this is just shows the amount of hatred towards everyone.
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Well, I guess it's time to take a break and spend some time alone with my depression
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In the end the people have the most power to stop this from getting a lot bloodier, but its very scary and requires an incredible sacrifice.
Some are already making that sacrifice, but they are not enough, the rest needs to come out of hiding and pull their head out of the sand.
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Most power to get beaten and end up in jail for 15 years? Are you serious? It's like saying that hostages should neutralize armed terrorists by themselves.
Such kind of dictatorships don't fall due protests. It could fall only due military coup or treason of oligarchy.
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Yeah, and when there is a popular revolt it tends to be a messy civil war that makes things worse.
I mean, do you really want to risk some fringe group of pro-Putin rebels to get a hold of a nuke? That's not going to end well.
The best course of action is for the oligarchs to pressure Putin to resign. Not kill him, that makes him a martyr, and you definitely don't want those.
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The problem sadly is that open conflict would cause... nuclear war. That's what makes it so hard to deal with this situation and Putin (and Lowrow and so on) know that. So this will go on until something happens from the inside, because it can't happen from the outside. I hate humanity.
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Sadly, it's true. But the massive revolt of the citizens couldn't be successful either, at least at this point — It will end with bloodbath. But the world could (and should) continue to support Ukraine and add pressure on Russian elites. When our government won't be able to pay it's hounds — our military and enforcers would be easier to persuade.
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Hang in there (on both sides) and let's hope this will be over not too long from now.
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Yes, and it's starting to bring the first results. But it would take some time and, of course, when the cities are under the shelling — everyone wants it to end asap. Thanks, let's hope so.
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Without some huge support from foreign powers, high ranked military officers/generals and rich/powerful people, if regular people try to get violent against a totalitarian government, they'll be shot and labeled as terrorists, case closed. Oh also after they die as "terrorists" most likely their families will have a really hard time living a normal life and finding a job.
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I don't blame every Russian. I haven't blacklisted anyone in more than a year.
Money talks. Everywhere in the world. Does that lead to cynical situations? Of course. How do you keep diplomacy and talks up if you don't have anything to offer? Of course, business was made with Russia for own profits, but also to bring up points like the oppression. You can't ask Putin to stop arresting the opposition and give him nothing. Trade-offs. And when you say that the money is now used for the military expanses, it wasn't the case before. Your economy grew and the living conditions got better, too, didn't they?
Two weeks ago most people were still like: "he won't do that". Even many Russians commented like that. The Russion opposition and Ukraine government were right. Politicians of my government have openly confessed that they underestimated how insane he is by now. It's a shame what Gerhard Schröder has become. I agree with you there. But does it help now to say: "You all were wrong!"
The solution would be to get rid of Putin and those oligarchs who have the same mindset like him. so they wouldn't replace him and become the new tyrant. But how do you that? Shall the US send CIA agents into Russia to find and murder them? Besides that there is no legal justification for that, it would highly risk a nuclear war.
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but also to bring up points like the oppression. You can't ask Putin to stop arresting the opposition and give him nothing.
Has it worked? I haven't noticed. The repressions are getting harsher and broader every year.
And when you say that the money is now used for the military expanses, it wasn't the case before. Your economy grew and the living conditions got better, too, didn't they?
Until 2008? Maybe. Since 2010 the living conditions for most people haven't gotten any better. Since 2014 it's dramatically degraded. Most of that money ended up in the pockets of corrupt politicians, oligarchs and the military.
But does it help now to say: "You all were wrong!"
I haven't said that. It would be the same as blaming every Russian. I just say that it's naive to demand from Russians to somehow overthrow a bloody dictatorship no matter the casualties. That everyone unlucky enough to be born in Russia should pay for it. While the longtime sponsors of this regime pretend that they have nothing to do with it.
The solution would be to get rid of Putin and those oligarchs who have the same mindset like him
I hate oligarchs for what they've done to our country, but the oligarchs love money. They love the luxury, expensive cars, yachts and jets. They love to travel, they love their mansions/palaces/castles and their European lifestyle. And they've lost most of it in a single week. They are corruptioneers and thieves, but most of them aren't warmongers. So, I see an opportunity here. They should be pushed even further, but they also should be promised some sort of indulgence if they are willing to help. And some of them would be. Some of them already are.
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Has it worked? I haven't noticed. The repressions are getting harsher and broader every year.
No, obviously not. Would it better if they didn't even try in the first place?
I haven't said that.
I didn't want to imply that, it was an example of a bad attitude.
They are corruptioneers and thieves, but most of them aren't warmongers.
Hopefully. If there is one among them, who freaks out..
But yeah, I hope they react more like Abramovich.
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Would it better if they didn't even try in the first place?
When you keep trying for years and making things worse — it's better to stop trying
Anyway, things are getting pretty fucked up around here. I don't know if the full blockade will work or if it will bring even more harm. But right now I only see that those who believe in propaganda are getting angrier and angrier towards everyone who is speaking against the war. Death threats isn't something unusual now.
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Can't make up my mind on which is the most senseless:
this insignificant decision only having a negative impact on innocent people or the fact that it was posted in the deals section.
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The whole logic of hurting people of a selected country with sanctions etc. to make their life as hellish as possible so that they would go and overthrow own government (in probably pretty bloody event) is absolutely hypocritical, on a clearly inhumane level. I am shocked that so many people endorse this and agree that this makes perfect sense. Bread and circuses.
Then what exactly a suggestion to overthrow own government achieves? Let's fantasize that Russians would install another government, what happens then? If another Russian government would earnestly go for its country's interests, the same anti-Russian rhetoric could continue no matter what kind of government it would be - as long as this can be useful. I am not advocating for current Russian government. My point is that in this story, it does not matter, and targeted by such a measure outcome is just dark.
Problems at root of conflict are deeper that this.
Not even mentioning how easily folk all over the world directs their orchestrated at right moments "anger" at another people, depending on context. Horrible model. Accuse someone, find or make someone "worse" than you to feel good yourself, to feel camaraderie with another selected group, to feel some fake significance. Happens a lot and is used a lot, too.
Similar patterns happen ever so often in humankind, a slaver / colonialist / fascist / capitalist / bully recipe: dehumanize / de-intellectualize a person or a group/class of people to not feel remorse for using, robbing them, hurting etc., and is used in conflicts all the time.
So much is getting increasingly unreasonable. Big powers strive for getting more power, disregarding people. Politicians are making statements not based on anything with such a speed that no one ever bothers to reality check anything anymore. Same with all this informational overload around us, it is harder and harder to verify anything. Diplomacy became a circus where hardly anything is solved. Powerful governments are making outward hostile statements and actions openly. With all the "progress" humanity has ever made, we are still at the first circle where the ones who are simply stronger dictate their will, and hierarchies of power, not unlike the ones in animal world, define positions of people, organizations, countries in this merry bunch.
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This. It reminds me of how capitalism is a system made to give the people with power, more power, just look at how wealth is currently distributed in the world, but every time anyone tries anything to change capitalism, or attempt a better system, they just get yelled COMUNISM, and automatically all of their ideas are bad.
The world, simply doesn't care, if it did, we wouldn't have places like Bangladesh's slums, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Somalia, hell, even my own country that has been on war since 1960, and is not going to change, just because USA says so. They expect us to beat the drug dealers, whose drugs they buy and whose weapons' they sell.
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So the USA is evil.
NATO is evil.
UN is probably evil too then.
So who do you see rescuing Venezuela?
What would a world look like if the USA followed the 1930's Isolationism movement and did not police the world?
Lets imagine Germany/Italy/Japan were defeated in WW2 without the USA, but what would have happened after that?
Or what if the Trump Isolationism had succeeded? What would we be doing now instead of this?
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They aren't good, at least not for anyone but themselves. USA is not policing the world as they used to, since their defeat at Battle of Mogadishu, that showed the world, they weren't invincible and the appearance of new conflicts that remain unresolved until today.
They however are on top of smaller countries by demanding results and 'aiding' them, while making making sure they stay that way, small and dependent. How is that good for anyone but themselves?
If USA was really the heroes that defend freedom they believe themselves to be, like I said, they'd go and fight Venezuela's dictatorship (for example), and give it back to the people there, but they don't, because it's not their war, not their land, not their people, so, why would they?
They sent some humanitarian help to make themselves feel good that they're helping, without doing anything to solve the problem at all. Is why they condone China, but, still turn a blind eye and make business with hem, is because it benefits them.
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So you would rather see the Russian army kill foreigners than that the Russian people liberate themselves?
Is there a solution? Or just continue with the status quo?
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These choices.
Why not naively add "All the countries-servants of USA would liberate themselves and create a real diplomatic initiative to work for good of own countries and common good worldwide"? No, this is not going to happen anytime soon, and not with outright capitalistic system currently governing worldwide which can only function on eating the population of own and "allied" countries or on direct conquest of opponents - in classical, economical and other senses.
But if/when this would be possible, this could be a start to solving a lot of issues. Most of which nowadays are artificial and constantly fueled anyway.
What choice you may like but are not comfortable saying? Something like "NATO army killing foreigners and western elites getting control of Eurasian resources and labor, and new sales markets in the whole Commonwealth of Independent States region"? Next, Middle East, China, etc.?
Not sure about your position here. People are currently being killed in dozens of places on Earth, in wars no one cares to tell about, for interests of elites, interests of.. simply growing. Law of growth, of eating the weaker. And regular person never gets any benefit even if their lords have a huge success in this arena.
You would not like my suggestions, and I am not a huge politician or orator either.
In imminent horizon to avoid escalation: Ukraine should overthrow its puppet government (installed in a bloody way btw) which never planned to have any diplomatic relations with its big neighbor, and install someone who would actually execute international diplomacy and trade for benefit of own people.
Very similarly, EU (as well as a lot of other countries) should stop being USA's underdog and mouthpiece and start making a real diplomacy with strengthening good relations with other powers worldwide; acting and trading for benefit of not selected few people but population; make actual plans for what we as a Union want to achieve and where to invest our effort, because currently this is chaotic and leads nowhere. Things like NATO may not need to exist, at least not in a form like in recent decades.
On long horizon: Creation of governments in all countries which would have transparent diplomacy with each other on a manner of states of a single country - the Earth :3
All of this requires good education for all people, a huge amount of people honest like saints (which means promoting another mentalities), decline of capitalistic/fascistic systems in governments and other human collectives, transparency in how everything is handled related to labor and its results, distribution of all this, goals for local and global humanity etc etc.
Maybe future humanity could come up with something much better.. But we have to start somewhere. This is not done by constant competition, witch hunting, creating tensions, accusing selected countries and waging wars there while creating hype to cover up the actual atrocities against humanity and human progress.
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and not with outright capitalistic system currently governing worldwide
What's the alternative? While you criticized the (turbo)capitalism there (and I agree), I don't see any alternative concept in your list of solutions. A real communism (not the ones we had yet)? A capitalism with high social compensation, even more than it right now already exists in several European countries? The European citizens already have the option to vote for more social and ecological aspects, but they barely do.
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Well, here's an idea at least, probably not perfect, but, with help it could be something better imo. The problem is that the discussion itself is banned, because (as is probably stated there, don't remember, read it long ago) the people that currently hold power, are afraid to lose it, hence they want status quo to maintain and not even think about something different.
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Yeah. I'd even go further. We shouldn't need borders anymore. And in a perfect world we wouldn't even need laws, because people would behave, be reasonable and considerate.
But nowadays people rather rant about how useless the UN was.
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Well, however far, I hope (if we don't destroy ourselves before) that we can achieve something like that someday. No reason paradise can't be earth itself.
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I don't have a ready manifesto at the moment :D And I don't support any specific person or their idea. I have some alternatives in mind, but this doesn't matter in these points.
Some attempt to re-entered socialism and, in future, communism - is just one of options to consider. Some incorporation of technocracy would be reasonable, and so on, there is a lot of good ideas existing and humanity is capable of producing more if we let it.
Improvements can start from any form. In any case, changes need to happen over the whole globe and gradually.
More transparency in structure of governments is one of the first steps. Open forums where problems are discussed/explained and solutions are offered by specialists. People have to demand clarity and credibility. Maybe this could start from creating new specific political parties or other movements educating citizens of Earth.
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I see. There are too many people right away scared or switching to attacking mode, if communism is brought up, just because of the bad examples we have had yet.
The Occupy movement and / or FFF could work towards that, but they also have their own goals and I don't see them turning the tide soon.
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All the conspiracy theorists ( of any stripe or political side really) always claim to be worried about the Elite Globalists (they are a problem but people often miss the obvious and choose to believe the fantastical about them)...when the solution is for those at the bottom to rise up and do it for themselves...create a fairer more transparent global system, agreed. One simple start to all of this everywhere...get corporations, and billionaires by extension, to properly pay and transparently show their taxes and close both local, national and international loopholes.
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If everyone can be discriminated this easily, it's only a matter of time before US who have most influential tech company rule the world with some allies. They just gonna make some bad media advertising against opposition then block them.
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My main income was sales on g2a and kinguin. Now I don't have the means to provide for my family. I will have to go to fight under the contract against Ukraine. Thanks to Europe for helping to recruit more contract soldiers for the Russian army.
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Good luck in storming Kiev and Fashington like your putin's comrades for $500/month in current prices if you don't have brains to find a real job lol. I know many people here in Russia who will never fight for Putin's state even if they are taken into the army by force
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They don't care about that, they love GOG, they are just being very selective.
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why is this posted on "Deals"? oh it must be a good deal!!
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They're having a "buy 1 tank, get 1 tank game free" sale 👀
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unprovoked? will the USA allow a Russian military base at the Mexican border?
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Ukraine can have any base they want in ITS OWN territory
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US can have any base they want in any country**
Let’s not be brainwashed
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So because Putin is paranoid and wants to do this for his midlife crisis you will help him make excuses for the murder of thousands.
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Slaughtering Russians, yes, by other Russians and Russian operatives.
Russia is ruled by fear and propaganda, but you think that the unelected rebels that stormed government buildings in Donbas and held a referendum did not rule by fear and propaganda. Their self-proclaimed leader, a Neo-Nazi, needed help to....de-Nazify Ukraine...
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And the US election was not stolen by Bidens' Handlers
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The only theft in that election was Bernie's nomination to be the Democratic candidate. Trump lost the old fashioned way though, 1/5 of 1/3 of the country isn't enough to win ;)
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I had to delete the comment because some people began to threaten the SBU. freedom of speech. fuck politics...
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What is Kinguin? Never heard of it
Better idea:
Disable Steam in RuSSia and BelaruSS
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Let's stop on Putin'SS officials accounts only - let them suffer
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It's kind of hilarious that out of all people KINGUIN think they have to take a stance on this 😆
What's next? Heroin and crack dealers who specialise in selling in front of Kindergardens and elementary schools refusing to sell to russian children? Lepra refusing to infect ethnical russians?
It's even more hilarious they believe their customers would care either way.
Afterall we all know the typical kinguin customer would buy suspiciously discounted girl scout cookies with blood splatter on the boxes from a known pedophile and child murderer IF the price is right.
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I feel that if bugthesda blocks russians and belorussians from its quake services ,that would be 80% of its playerbase, all 15 of them.
Even qpl would have to be delayed
Now that would be a bold move. Do it!!!
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The company my sister works for has closed its activities in Russia to stand by the Ukrainian people... 2.300 russian employees have been laid off.
I imagine some sanctions can put pressure on the Russian government, but things like this only harm innocent people (and I know what it's like to live in a country ruled by a complete idiot). And it's like Ashtart commented: you can't expect russians to take to the streets to protest at the risk of being killed or arrested by the government itself.
We have to have sympathy with the Ukrainian PEOPLE and with the Russian PEOPLE as well (the rulers are stupid... and that includes everyone who somehow helped to create this situation in some way).
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But anyway, this war showed us how racist people are! Thanks to Russia 🙏🏽
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Putin already suggests to solve this nazi problem by nuclear war. Do you support his peacemaking leftist idea to make all people equal?
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once US clean the blood off their hands i'll admit that putin is a piece of shit. im the type of person who support anything that pisses off US!
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Why Putin is so popular among backward countries/nations of the 3rd world? Low education level helps them love different dictator sh%t?
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I would choose low education over someone who terrorize, invade countries and steal their lands then accuse them for being terrorists!
Anyway u got some high level of racism and i really feel sad for u my friend! Im not wasting my time no more you’re brainwashed and it’s hard to deal with u. Take care
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Ur so tolerant and peaceful like these guys from your lands:
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Thats not war, thats TERRORISM, they run away from Ukrainian army but bravly shooting civilians and bombing civil buildings.
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putin is building ussr 2.0. cnn is just a single channel and there is fox news at least. right now in russia there is putin tv, everything else is getting banned. it's not the right time to join the fake propaganda squad even if you hate usa or something. putin sends young boys to death. it's not what russia wants or needs. those soldiers could help the economy, instead they are dying for fake imperial bullshit.
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I'll never understand why most muslims admire some pathetic dictator just because he hates West (US and some EU), and want to dominate it. Where does this love for scum leaders come from?
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CNN? How about live on your own eyes in Ukrainian city?
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Google and YouTube have stopped advertising sales and monetization in Russia due to the events in Ukraine
Now Russian users will not see ads, and content authors will not receive money for views.
Google announced on Thursday that it has stopped selling online advertising in Russia. This ban applies to the Google search engine, YouTube service and external publishing partners. Earlier, similar actions were taken by Twitter and Snapchat.
Now Russian users will not see ads, and content authors will not receive money for views. Content creators, including those from Russia, will continue to receive money for views from other countries.
"Due to extraordinary circumstances, we are suspending the sale of advertising in Russia. The situation is developing rapidly and we will continue to share updates when needed.
Google"
However, I do not know whether to cry about the fact that they gave me a free premium for advertising or not to cry. Previously, they wanted money for this to turn off advertising, but now it has been turned off for free.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-pauses-all-ad-sales-russia-2022-03-04/
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Honestly, I'm shocked they didn't decide just to keep showing ads and ban Russian advertisers and ban creators from making money.
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and here i thought Kinguin sell russian key the most to EU region. how naive I am
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"Dear Merchant,
The invasion of Ukraine by Russian and Belarusian forces is an unprovoked act of war on innocent people. Kinguin strongly opposes Russia’s actions and stands in solidarity with and supports its Ukrainian colleagues, friends, and the nation's citizens.
In response to the aggression, Kinguin has decided to:
Disable Russian and Belarusian merchants from selling through Kinguin, until further notice.
Block all the current active offers and disable the creation of new ones by the Russian and Belarusian merchants.
Disable all payouts to Russian and Belarusian bank accounts and payment intermediaries.
We understand that our merchants and customers based in Russia and Belarus are not directly responsible for the war in Ukraine. However, we are confident that our actions are necessary and we believe that to show our solidarity with the nation of Ukraine we need to apply these restrictions to all Russian and Belarusian companies, banks, and merchants.
Those updates will be effective from 4 March 2022. Already accumulated funds will be available for withdrawal, however, some of the payout methods will not be available, as stated above. Access to the account will also be available, unless some unwanted actions will be taken, which may result in suspending the account.
We are dedicated to servicing a passionate community of video games fans around the world and, just like them, we believe video games have the power to unite people everywhere.
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this crisis.
Kinguin Team"
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"Dear Customers and Partners,
The invasion of Ukraine by Russian and Belarusian forces is an unprovoked act of war on innocent people. Kinguin strongly opposes Russia’s actions and stands in solidarity with and supports its Ukrainian colleagues, friends, and the nation's citizens.
In response to the aggression, Kinguin has decided to:
Suspend business relations with Russian and Belarusian companies, banks, and sellers.
Disable Russian and Belarusian sellers from selling through Kinguin.
Block all the current offers and disable the creation of new ones by Russian and Belarusian sellers.
Disable all payouts to Russian and Belarusian bank accounts and payment intermediaries.
Those updates will be effective from 4 March 2022.
We are dedicated to servicing a passionate community of video games fans around the world and, just like them, we believe video games have the power to unite people everywhere.
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this crisis.
Kinguin Team"
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