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No - this is elementary game theory. By precommitting to "if I withdraw the app I will go to jail", then the Russian threat would become ineffective and they wo
by yanderekko 5y ago
No - this is elementary game theory. By precommitting to "if I withdraw the app I will go to jail", then the Russian threat would become ineffective and they wouldn't make it to begin with.
Granted, the real world is more complicated but this is equivalent of using the strategy of disabling your steering wheel before playing a game of chicken.
- avmich 5y agoIt's not a game of chicken. Russia is well prepared to collide - did that many times. Threats won't work - actually jailing important Russians abroad for supporting Russian organizations under sanctions will. Direct action is the primary working approach here. For those reasons Google and Apple should be considered aiding and abetting Russian government now. Not quite illegal as of now - but how well it looks?
- throwaway210222 5y ago> Google and Apple [are] aiding and abetting Russian government now. Not quite illegal … - but how well it looks? Meh, no quite as bad as the US quietly making Russia its second largest supplier of oil, no? [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-04/russia-captures-no-2-rank-among-foreign-oil-suppliers-to-u-s https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-04/russia-ca... If you want to starve Crazy Ivan of his forex…