[drysine]

>Why shouldn't "the West", actually many separate autonomous countries, be able to sell to whoever they want?

I don't know, why aren't companies from "many separate autonomous countries" able to sell to Russia whatever they want? They would be punished by American and the EU's primary and secondary sanctions for that

[brokenmachine]

Seems fine to me. The US is representing their interests, just as Russia does. I believe Russia has put sanctions on the US as well.

Russia has their good friends like North Korea and Iran to depend on.

If they want new friends, maybe they could reconsider their foreign policy.

[drysine]

>Seems fine to me.

So punishing countries and companies for trading with Russia is fine, but punishing countries for selling drones to Ukraine is not. Got it.

[brokenmachine]

You're the one who called it punishing. It's just doing business with who you want.

It's just dumb for Russia to do it when they have so few cards to play.

Originally I thought you were talking about military "punishing".