[JumpCrisscross]

> >f Air India wants to risk sanctions, There are approx. 34 Billion[1] reasons why that won't happen

See my other comment [1]. Nobody thinks the U.S. will permanently stick Air India with sanctions. But everyone knows there is a gray area during which, if you're an American or do business with America, particularly if you are in a regulated field, you do not want to be the banker or engineer who kept doing business with an entity that just publicly violated sanctions.

And both sides' politicians would love this. Private parties bear the cost. New Delhi can rail on American imperialism, the immorality of sanctions and the pragmatism of its geopolitical strategy. Washington can talk up how it pragmatically exempted India while throwing pot shots at Russia's isolation. It's a manufactured crisis with a simple solution whose costs are borne by a third party: that's catnip to electeds.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36289706

[jhugo]

> just publicly violated sanctions

Please enlighten everyone: in what way is an Indian entity paying their own engineers to use their own parts to fix their own aircraft “violating sanctions”? Please give as much detail as possible.

[JumpCrisscross]

> in what way is an Indian entity paying their own engineers to use their own parts to fix their own aircraft “violating sanctions”

These products are subjext to reëxport controls—that’s what sanctions bite with. Air India transporting a controlled engine component into Russia violates those June 2022 sanctions. (It’s the same reason e.g. Germany can block the reëxport of its tanks, or Russia can tell India it’s not allowed to donate its new Su’s to the USAF.) It’s similar to if Air India starts importing American computer components and reëxporting them to North Korea; it would be blocked from accessing American and allied services. That’s the entire point of sanctions.

This is clearly-established law and precedent that is easily available from any competent attorney in India familiar with export/import of restricted goods.

[jhugo]

This is just completely incorrect. There is no export here. Air India is not receiving an engine (or its components) and then giving them to a Russian entity. The mere movement of an item from one geographic location to another is not necessarily sufficient to cause an export, as any "competent attorney" could tell you, as opposed to a person who wants to sound confident while inventing facts on an Internet forum.