There are no perfect sanctions

And this is presented either as a sensation or as a "betrayal," because the West seems to be supporting Russia. This is nonsense.

Why do they find Western components there? Well, because Russian components simply do not exist. If you disassemble a Russian car, you will find Western components. If you disassemble any equipment that has the stamp "made in Russia," you will find Western components.

Because there are simply no Russian ones.

Russia has only oil and gas, and they inherited both from dinosaurs. Which they are exchanging for all this.

Does this mean that Western countries support Ukraine and Russia equally? No, this is nonsense. The West supports Ukraine. And Russia buys chips for money through intermediaries, which it then inserts into its missiles. Feel the difference. Is there any decision of the Western government to "sell missile components to Russia"? No, there isn't. Just one intermediary company from Croatia buys a common product with these chips, which are everywhere, or the chips themselves, and sells it to a company from Dubai, which sells it to a company from Thailand, and then it is all imported by some FSB office in Russia.

Can it be stopped? No. Because this is a massive, huge market. You can't trace it in any way. After the fact, yes. But it is simply impossible to prevent such deals.

Does this mean that sanctions are not working? No, it doesn't. It simply means that there are no perfect sanctions. Just like there is no perfect world. And in our world, there is greed of individual entrepreneurs, there are useful idiots for the Kremlin, and there are Turkey and China, through which parallel imports are being driven to Russia.

It's all it takes to become one of the Kremlin's useful idiots: sowing hatred in Ukraine against the West, the very entity supporting us. We rely on Western financial aid for paying our pensions and their weapons for fighting.

And yes, any new missile that will sooner or later break through our air defense will have Western chips in it. And stop making news out of it...

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About the author. Serhiy Fursa, investment expert, blogger.

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