VHTV Stands with Ukraine. You can help too

I will give it a go and I will do it with thinking objectively about the issue as I have no personal interest in VHTV at all. I wish I did, imagine knowing where all these realms are and saying that you are a neighbour and knock on the door for a cup of sugar. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

VHTV isn’t a Mcdonald’s or anything like a massive multinational company, it is a tiny insignificant spec in the vastness of the corporate world. VHTV has employees from many nations including Ukraine which would deprive them of any possibility for future earnings, haven’t they suffered too much to lose their only means of supporting themselves as well. Any suspension of the Russia apartments will make no difference at all and will only impose ill-conceived hardship on so many people that that rely on its existence i.e., staff and participants.

VHTV was based out of Russia for the very reason the CEO gave that he didn’t feel comfortable living in a Russian society that had so many unjust limitations on people’s daily lives. So, he and the company pay taxes in a European country and in not being too pedantic about things you could very well say that a part of those taxes are being used to pay for weapons that are being sent to Ukraine.

Another thing is that almost all options for payments to Russia have been blocked and I believe the only option now is through cryptocurrencies and with Coinbase one of the largest cryptocurrency wallets in the world announcing that they are blocking activity within Russia three days ago, others are sure to follow soon. So, there will be little or no option to pay these Russian realms in the future anyway and some of them will have to make hard decisions on whether they carry on with the project paying their internet bills or feed themselves and that’s not fantasy, this is the cold hard reality that they will face in the coming weeks.

It really isn’t their fault. We have seen time and time again that participants have been on protests in Russia, voiced their opinion on the forum and on Twitter, which I may add is extremely dangerous for them to do so now, where they could face going to prison for doing so. Why should they be held accountable when you have supported these people for months and months and now you want to condemn them to a life of hardship, which in the greater scheme of things will make no difference whatsoever.

Lastly, I want you to put your hand on your heart and bearing in mind all of the above, can you honestly say that you would close your company out of morals and make yourself bankrupt affecting so many lives including Ukrainian ones, knowing that it will make no difference whatsoever.

I would think that 99% of you if you are totally honest would not close the Russian apartments if you were in that position. It’s just a few of you who sit there in the comfort of your sofa and not really thinking things through and how it would affect so many people. It is so easy to be a moral and upstanding person when it doesn’t affect you personally as you will just walk off without a care in the world and carry on with your lives thinking that you are doing great for the war effort but leaving a mountain of destruction behind you.

I have run a business for 20 years now and had good times and bad times and right now I have suspended my business to help with things here in Poland. But I have to answer you honestly if I was in VHTV’s position I would do nothing different, because if you think about it without prejudice (and that is quite a hard thing to do), your actions would make no difference whatsoever in the greater scheme of things, in fact it will have the opposite effect by destroying lives, and I could not have that on my conscience.

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