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by throwaway290 975 days ago
If you just hack you don't need any of that though. Balancing, goods delivery, currency controls... Drain a western company, mix crypto for optics, give it to Iran or DPRK or whatever in exchange for munition

Plus India and relatively reasonable countries are not especially keen on trading with Russia, while they are friends they also want to be friends with West. Remember India has big problems with China and who's gonna help them against China? not Russia
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Scoundreller 975 days ago
People are willing to override a lot of their ethical concerns (and accept potential long term pain in favour of short term gain) when it comes to slightly cheaper oil, gas, labour or any other need and want.

A few countries got themselves in a pickle after shutting down local coal production in favour of cheap and cleaner Russian gas…

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throwaway290 974 days ago
It's not ethical concerns, it's territorial integrity.
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