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The wars or military conflicts themselves are kind of tangential. It's the geopolitical risks that come along with them.

i.e. if you are an American/European company and you are doing business in Russia you must account for the potential risks of suddenly. The sanctions after 2014 were a clear signal and Intel had years to take that into account.

> So I kind of see why Intel didn't do much about it until 2022.

I'm pretty sure that the consensus (based on pretty objective evidence) is that Intel was run by incompetent hacks prior to 2021 (and probably still is).

> thousands of European/American businesses operating in Russia by 2022

Selling your products there or having local manufacturing is not quite the same as outsourcing your R&D there due to obvious reasons...