A week ago when McDonald's announced it's leaving Russia and we asked who's next, today

we got the answer.

Motley Full Money starts now.

I'm Chris Hill and I'm joined by Motley Full's Senior Analyst Jason Moser.

Happy Monday.

Hey, happy Monday indeed.

We have a merger Monday-esque story we're going to get to, but let's start with Starbucks.

The coffee chain announced this morning it is leaving Russia and will no longer have any

kind of brand presence there.

Starbucks committed to paying its Russian workers for six months and helping them transition

to new jobs.

From a financial standpoint, Jason, this is not going to have as big an impact as what

we talked about last week with McDonald's because for Starbucks, it's a smaller store

count and a smaller percentage of their annual revenue.

Yeah, you're right.

I think Starbucks was the example that we used when we were talking about McDonald's

recently and thinking, okay, is there another restaurant that will follow suit?

Starbucks seemed like an obvious candidate just sort of giving them a chance to maybe

weigh exactly what the reaction to McDonald's actions ultimately was.

And to me, this makes a lot of sense.

Following McDonald's lead, generally speaking, they're just kind of looking at this, they

figured, like we said, that just do you say you're worth a squeeze?

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