If there is no guilt then there is no blame. The only concern they have is about the wording they should use when communicating the decision they've taken so it doesn't look bad. Here is a template: "we did all we can, but we have to comply with a greater force outside our reach".
Below certain paygrade of people taking those decisions, a kind of mental "Nuremberg defense"(1) rule applies.
People should learn that companies milk these kind of feelings just because they profit from them; it's good for business. The top earners (investors and managers) that probably are, in this very moment, partying in a Singapore KTV, they don't really care.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders