Unless you have something solid to back up that intelligence sharing stuff, I'll have to doubt what you're saying. Not actively supporting a war and to want business to keep going, that's one thing, but to work against the state? At the end of the day, Yandex operates in Russia, under Russian law, during wartime, and has to deal with everything that comes with it. No country or government allows companies to do that against them, especially if what they're supposedly doing is already known on Hacker News.

Regarding the rest, every action has consequences. The country you seem to referring to seems to already have paid in different ways and continues to do so. It's just how it works.

But this thread isn't about North American countries, it's about Russia, which decided to break treaties and borders they themselves recognized, to conquer a neighbour by force. While I see this as a huge waste, I can't really be mad at those defending themselves. And from the moment Russia decided to attack civilian infrastructure (eg: power generation, especially in winter, before Ukraine had these long range capabilities) then their own infrastructure becomes fair play. Maybe they shouldn't have done that? Not too late to stop though.

That whirlwind quote, apparently it's from the bible, so it's not new wisdom. But when in the context of war, I'm always reminded of a 1942 Arthur Harris quote:

> "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."

Now, Harris wasn't exactly a nice guy. Under his command, the RAF Bomber Command levelled a few German cities with people in them. But what he said (and did) is something leaders should keep in mind before starting wars. Those who don't, risk ending up with Yandex data centres in flames.