Microsoft Suspends Business in Russia

So, I guess no more backdoors on Russian devices then, huh?

Gonna have to go with Chinese Linux!

From the Microsoft blog:

Like the rest of the world, we are horrified, angered and saddened by the images and news coming from the war in Ukraine and condemn this unjustified, unprovoked and unlawful invasion by Russia.

I want to use this blog to provide an update on Microsoft’s actions, building on the blog we shared earlier this week.

We are announcing today that we will suspend all new sales of Microsoft products and services in Russia.

In addition, we are coordinating closely and working in lockstep with the governments of the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom, and we are stopping many aspects of our business in Russia in compliance with governmental sanctions decisions.

We believe we are most effective in aiding Ukraine when we take concrete steps in coordination with the decisions being made by these governments and we will take additional steps as this situation continues to evolve.

We should understand that a lot of this “we’re banning Russia from X” is not even about Russia, per se.

Much of it is about morally signaling to other Westerners.

A lot of this stuff is counterproductive to the ZOG agenda.

Like, I doubt that Microsoft is really going to suspend updates to Windows from Russian IPs – although that is the implication. But whatever they are doing, it means less Microsoft software on Russian computers, which means less backdoor access for American spies.

Furthermore, they are pushing Russia towards total autarky, which is good for Russia in the long term and bad for globalism in both the short and long term.

Globalism is based on this interdependency concept, and whatever people want to say denigrating Russia, they have played a significant role in the global economy. Tucker had some farmer on talking about how the prices of fertilizer are going to explode in all the sanctioning countries, because most of it is produced in Russia.

He said the average American grocery bill could be raised $1,000 a month.

So, we know our leaders are unhinged. But it is clear that they would only be doing what they are doing if they thought they were going to win this conflict and overthrow the government of Russia in the near or medium term.

I don’t really think that looks very likely.