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New US sanctions target workarounds that let Russia get Western tech for war (apnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Press release from the State Department https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1731

The number of targets differs but it appears to be part of the same action.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The US has shown that they're willing to weaponize their position in the West to block development of technology by key rivals like Russia, China, and India. The dependence that these powers had on Western technology is a key motivator against war... But today? If the US can unilaterally restrict access anyway, what's the motivation?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The dependence they had on Western technology was a key motivator against war precisely because the US can unilaterally restrict access to their tech. Going to war means losing US tech, and Russia decided that war was worth losing US tech

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Except the US was already demonstrating their willingness to restrict access to tech. We saw that in China when the US restricted access to semiconductors and semiconductor equipment because of the domestic issue in Xinjiang.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

Wars are very costly, and wars between nuclear superpowers would be world ending. US and USSR had no trade to speak of and didn't go to war for these reasons.