Oh yeah! Nothing to do with you, I was just explaining why I am responding in this thread, rather than where you wrote your post.

Ah OK, sometimes my english understanding skills suffer :)

I was just adding on that if it were about the legal requirements, then they would have done it once those requirements came into force.

I understand now. It makes a lot of sense, didnt thought about that. The war is going for two years now, but they decided to do it right now. Should they have pressure from the US government, than it is a bad sign for the open source community. It shows clearly, that the decision making of important projects like the Linux Kernel, can get heavily influenced by them. Not good and choosing the USA as a location is a bad decision and should be avoided in the future.

Torvalds came out and said he hates Russians, I think we should believe him.

I totaly believe him. I guess you can troll him by sending a simple mail like "hello Linus how are you?" with a russian TLD and he will believe it is a top-tier professional russian actor. Tbh he formulated all this in a way like his Finnish ancestry is the reason for this. Some people should not talk or make decisions about things about they don't know anything.