Is this really a surprise to anyone? If there’s anything you can rely on Western capitalism for, it’s unbridled, greed and corruption. Of course they’re gonna sell their top secret technology to the enemy. They need their 875th yacht! In fact, it’s actually seen as a fatal weakness. If you don’t leverage your access for as much corrupt profiteering privilege as you possibly can in the time you have it.

The dismantling of democracy and the widespread economic vampirism towards the middle and lower class is simply the lubricant they use to masturbate themselves into whatever the hell they think they’re gonna get from all of this.

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's also difficult to keep third parties from reselling parts to a sanctioned country.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, this is what's primarily happening. A third-party imports the chips to a random country for [perfectly valid use], then resells them to Russia at a markup. It's one of the reasons you see more and more sanctions packages. Some of those are sanctioning perpetrators of industrial level sanctions evasion as described here.

And while you can never stop it, driving up the price and reducing supply to Russia is helpful. Particularly when paired with lethal aid to Ukraine.

[–] DragonSidedD@monero.town 3 points 4 days ago

And modern high tech parts are actually pretty traceable. Everything has a serial number and a digital trail.

People compare sanctions to the War on (some) Drugs but really nobody grows custom CMOS chips in their basement

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