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Wtf are these companies doing. Soda manufacturer’s are at the top in revenue generation and at the bottom in risk. They print liquid money. It’s just moronic to risk the horrid PR of looking like you’re sponsoring a kleptocratic war mongering nation (like the Ukraine just accused you of).
FYI: the "the" before Ukraine is superfluous. You can just type "like Ukraine just accused you of."
What about The Hague
That's the proper name of it. The Ukraine isn't the proper name of Ukraine.
And The United States
What about:
Normal country names don't begin with "the"
"The United States of America" makes grammatical sense. "The Ukraine" or any of the above doesn't .
That makes sense, again, grammatically. The low/lower/nether land.
The Holland.
I'm looking for the hoe land
In Dutch it's just called Nederland. "The" is added when referring to it in English since it makes more grammatical sense in English. The Low-Lying Lands.
Ukraine is its full proper name, from the original name of Україна, which can be romanized to Ukraine.
To "Ukraina", not Ukraine, but that's just a minor correction.
The Philippines
The UK is like an abbreviation for The Ukraine
I was being facetious
THE Donald
The idiot.
It's actually a really interesting but of english.
We include 'the' when the type of government or state is mentioned which is why it is just China but it's the people's Republic of china or in the case of a region, like the Cotswolds.
Ukraine was referred to as the Ukraine during the soviet Union as it was a region of a greater country. Therefore using the Ukraine basically diminishes Ukraine to a territory of another country which is sorta what they're fighting not to be.
The name of Ukraine is Ukraine. "The Ukraine" was a USSR administrative district. The name of The United States is The United States
Yeah, no. They can earn millions with Russia, so they do. Spend half on that in good PR, and you still earned millions in blood money.
And if people get pissed? The news cycle means they'll forget about this in about 3 days so you're good
Pepsi has a history in Russia. They once traded the USSR soda in exchange for a fleet of naval ships. IIRC at the time Pepsi had the 4th largest navy in the world. They sold the ships to Norway.