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by shiroiushi 598 days ago
I'm not sure why you think this is comparable at all. These aren't Russian immigrants or descendants living in the west, they're Russians living in Russia, and working for Russian companies on the sanctions list. As a result, they've been stripped of their maintainership status, so they can still contribute, but they have to go through the regular send-a-patch process that any other random contributor would have to. It surely doesn't feel good to them after their history of contributions, but international law and politics cause things like this to happen.
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idiocrat 598 days ago
Yes, what you are saying is fair enough.

I can imagine technological "divorces" will happen more often going forward, as the polarization between the G7 and the BRICS++ members grows.

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shiroiushi 597 days ago
Yep, this reminds me a lot of how things were before the early 1990s, when the Soviet Union and all the countries aligned with it were behind an "Iron Curtain" and there was very little communication and trade between the two sides. I just hope there isn't a massive war between the two factions, and we can move peacefully towards having complete economic isolation between them like we had before.
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whatshisface 598 days ago
>No matter the reason of the situation but haven't we deserved more than that? Adding to the GREDITS file at least, no?

The author of the linked article suggests that they should get some form of memorialization. When Linus is finished berating Sam for working at Halliburton during the Iraq war, something that by analogy I guess he has every right to do, this advice should probably be taken.

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d_milivojevic 594 days ago
Under international law (the real one, not the USA BS about "rules based order") unilateral sanctions are illegal.
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dragonwriter 594 days ago
> Under international law (the real one, not the USA BS about "rules based order") unilateral sanctions are illegal.

No, they aren't, in general international law. They may be between partners in a multilateral agreement that provides trade terms, but they are specifically allowed on national security grounds within the largest such organization and the only one I am aware of where both the US and Russian Federation are members, the WTO, under GATT Article XXI(b).

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