 But one thing I found really, really interesting and this kind of suggests, you know, the role of voluntary association and the importance of voluntary association and the importance of voluntary action and private action. What I'm seeing right now is a large number of businesses stopping dealings with Russia. And I think they're doing it not because they're being somehow caused by government, but I think they're doing it for two reasons. I think there's some pressure on them from domestic consumers and from consumers in Europe. There's some pressure on them probably from shareholders and there's some moral outrage among CEOs, among board members of what is going on in Ukraine. And that moral outrage is being reflected in the fact that, for example, today McDonald's McDonald's hamburgers has closed 850 stores in Russia 850 stores in Russia are closed indefinitely. Now that means a lot of people have lost their jobs in Russia. It means real economic pain in Russia. It means a hit to the bottom line of McDonald's and it's proof that companies don't always pursue just the short-term bottom line, but they do have an incentive to care where they're doing business. Now, will this affect how they deal with China? I think this is a great signal to China that if they invade Taiwan, Kentucky Fried Chicken might leave China and the Chinese would tolerate almost anything except Kentucky Fried Chicken leaving the country. You've never seen so many Kentucky Fried Chicken in your life as you will see in China when you travel around China. So it is interesting to see that these stores are cancelling Starbucks is shutting down all its stores in Russia. Pepsi, China is the third largest market in the world for Pepsi, which just proves that there's something wrong with Russia because Coca Cola is so much better than Pepsi always has been, I think always will be and yet Pepsi is big in Russia. So Pepsi, in spite of the fact that this is their third largest market, is leaving Russia. Let's see, who else? Coca Cola is leaving Russia. We know that MasterCard, Visa and American Express have all left Russia. I don't drink Coca Cola. I don't drink Pepsi. I haven't seen Coca Cola cancelling Russia. I think this is terrific. I think it's, you know, Apple is not selling anything to Russia. It really is, of course, Russia has already banned Twitter and Facebook from the country. So they are centering American social media companies. They're centering everything else as well. So I think it's terrific to see the private sector stand up and say, there are some people we will not do business with. And there's no requirement, no requirement politically. And I don't think there's anything in the back channels where politicians are calling up McDonald's and saying, we're going to regulate you unless you do this and this with Russia. I think this is just long-term rational selfish decision making by American corporations to not deal with this motorist regime. So I am all on board with that. Nathan asked just because it's right on this topic. In your last show, you said that the Russian people are being misled by the government. Yes. What are the people being told about all these businesses withdrawing their services? What do people know? You know, I don't know. But my guess is that it will, you know, the truth in spite of propaganda, in spite of censorship, the truth does get through at least in pieces. They could be told this is a vast Western conspiracy against Russia. That will be the propaganda line that all these Western countries are anti-Russian and they are being forced by the anti-Russian governments to leave Russia. That I think would be the standard line that the propagandist would sell the Russian people, whether the Russian people buy on or not. I mean, it's fascinating. I mean, you're seeing people obviously demonstrating in the streets, they know what's going on. Those are usually young and they're typically middle class. You're seeing people leaving Russia. I saw a story about people, middle class professionals leaving Russia and going overseas and trying to find jobs overseas because they don't want to be involved in Russia. I mean, I've long advocated that the United States should say any Russian who wants to come and work in the United States, you're invited. I wonder how many people would stay of the 144 million who live in Russia right now. But a lot of people would leave. But that would be good. So many Russians know what's going on. They find ways, they use VPNs, they do what they need in order to find accurate information. But the common person is not sophisticated technologically. All the people in Russia the more nationalist oriented, the ones who are just going to believe what the government tells them, just like some people just believe what Donald Trump says without questioning, without thinking. Those are, you know, and some people who believe everything Obama said without questioning, without thinking. I don't think anybody believes what Biden says without questioning, without thinking. I just don't think he has that kind of fan base. But Obama suddenly did and Trump certainly did. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Brook show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to IranBookShow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. 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