New Hampshire and a couple other states are agitating to ban Russian vodka in their states. Russian vodka constitutes about 1% of the American vodka market.
Shockingly, some or maybe most Republican politicians are criticizing Putin and his invasion. Apparently their polling must indicate that at least some of the rank and file isn't happy with Putin's unprovoked invasion so they change their tune from dictator praise to dictator criticism. But, the Republican Party Füherer, our glorious ex-president likes the invasion. Once the dust settles, coward Republican politicians will revert back to attacking democracy and kissing asses of dictators like Putin and Orban.
Putin has ordered a clamp down on news reporting, calling the Ukraine invasion either an invasion or an attack damaging misinformation. He has shut down much of what's left of an independent press in Russia. At the same time, Putin has (i) launched a massive disinformation and smear campaign about Ukraine, e.g., falsely saying that the Ukraine government is committing genocide.
Meanwhile, social media companies are letting Putin's poison run free and wild. Good old capitalism. As usual for capitalists, profit talks and truth and democracy walk. Apple's CEO Tim Cook exemplified the capitalist response so far, Tweeting that he was "deeply concerned with the situation in Ukraine." Ukraine's digital minister Mykhailo Fedorov had posted on Twitter, "I appeal to you... to stop supplying Apple services and products to the Russian Federation, including blocking access to the Apple Store!"
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