MacDonalds and Starbucks stopped or are going to stop business in Russia

MacDonalds and Starbucks stopped or are going to stop business in Russia

Amongst lots of others, apparently.

Samo Burja said about this, "Countries around the world will no longer see Western companies such as MacDonalds or Starbucks or Facebook or Twitter as neutral services. They'll consider it a strategic priority to develop their own."

He said India has for a while wanted to emulate China, and said it would be almost insane or treasonous for Indian leaders to not to start to block social media websites and develop their own.

If it is impossible to pursue an independent strategy, Burja said, and it has to play with the Western strategy, and has to trust in our multilateralism, our fairness, our justice, I think that's kind of a joke. "I think they have no good reason to find the West trustworthy."