On March 5, Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow Seth Stodder was quoted in a Daily Wire article titled “Visa and Mastercard spark debate with latest crackdown on Russia.” The article cites a tweet by Stodder, which hails a recent move by Mastercard and Visa to suspend operations in Russia following aggression against Ukraine.

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