Universities around the. us are cutting financial ties with russia. Yale, the university of colorado and the public universities of arizona say it won't make any future investments in russia. The fear is always that it's going to be polluted or contaminated research that is geopolitically bias or sensitive. i can always tell what economy is booming based on what students i have. And then now we have a lot of chinese nationals in our class,. I think it's wonderful, because i think we're less likely to go to war with one another.