Business Community Gives Putin Green Light in Ukraine

It appears that doing anything to interfere with Russia's latter-day Anschluss of eastern Ukraine doesn't meet with the approval of the Western business community. It might cut into profits, after all. The Wall Street Journal reports: Several of the biggest names in German business—including chemical giant BASF, engineering group Siemens AG, Volkswagen AG, Adidas AG, and Deutsche Bank—have made their opposition to broader economic sanctions against Russia clear in recent weeks, both in publi...