Democracy is the rule of the people.
Companies and banks aren't interested in investing where the people have power. They want to invest where the companies and banks themselves have power.
So long as the companies and banks can influence the gangsters, they don't care.
> So long as the companies and banks can influence the gangsters, they don't care.
There are powerful executives who thought they could influence the Russian gangsters. And they could. Until they couldn't. If they were lucky, they're still around to tell the tale but many are not.
Oppressed people do not make good consumers. Even Machiavelli realised that.