Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "EU's Borrell defends energy strategy as Russian gas revenues soar | DW News" video.

Not true. There are export controls that China and India have to honour, or they'll be subjected to sanctions as well. Russia's underdeveloped manufacturing sector can't pick up the slack either, even if they flout intellectual property rights altogether. To give you an idea, Russia can't even produce microprocessors crucial to its arms industry -- obsolescent processors of its own design -- because it lacks the manufacturing capability. Russia is boxed in all right.
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Sorry, you've made yourselves dependent on Ukrainian grain.
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Having a large neighbour go bankrupt isn't a boon to any European nation -- militarily, politically, or economically. The Soviet Union imploded relatively peacefully, but how Putin's Russia will manage is anyone's guess.
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Even if Russia becomes more self-reliant, it just means that Russia will revert to its old Soviet ways. It will make inferior products at higher cost. Eventually, when Russia returns to the international fold, all those domestic manufacturers will go bust. History, in other words, will repeat itself.
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@wilsonlarcington8404 You're being too kind towards Russia. Demand has dropped, so Russia is cutting supply in an effort to raise the price of the gas it can still sell. It's a vicious circle if there ever was one. Russia is wantonly destroying a pillar of its economy. Economists the world over are shaking their heads in disbelief.
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@relaxingsounds6168 CoCom worked nicely during the Cold War, but I suppose you were only a glint in the milkman's eye then.
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@relaxingsounds6168 You can wax lyrical about the Red Army, but CoCom kept Western technology out of Soviet hands. Chinese tech companies have a choice: they can either serve a massive, lucrative market or a small, shrinking one. As a case in point, Huawei complied with US sanctions and scaled back its Russian operations. Once bitten, twice shy, you could say.
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@relaxingsounds6168 CoCom is history, silly. I used it as a precedent. Oh, rest assured that European companies respect US sanctions -- and vice versa. It's all about intellectual property. Despite China's bad rap, China respects IP, too, and Huawei first and foremost. The irony is that they're earning good money on each and every 5G network deal, even if the market in question is shuttered to them. You can check up on Huawei vis-à-vis Russia yourself. Google is your friend.
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@relaxingsounds6168 Ah, I see what you did there. You deleted your message. Maybe you should do your research before you post anything.
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@relaxingsounds6168 You're generalising. There will always be isolated cases where a company breaches sanctions, just like Huawei exported controlled technology to Iran, in clear breach of international sanctions. I wouldn't tar all Chinese companies with the same brush on account of Huawei's transgression. Would you?
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@relaxingsounds6168 You clearly don't know your high tech. The Russians spent a fortune on designing their own line of modern microprocessors. Ironically, they couldn't manufacture them, so they roped in Taiwan's TMSC. With Taiwan now sanctioning Russia, Russia is trying to in-source manufacturing, but Russian chip foundries can manage 90 nm technology at best instead of the 28 nm required. 14 nm is what we consider normal in the West. This means the Russian can use the made-in-Russia Elbrus in cash registers and the like. Military kit, not so much.
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@relaxingsounds6168 China may have made great strides, but only by adopting Western technology. SMIC don't dare to manufacture for the Russians out of fear for being sanctioned themselves. We're going around in circles.
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OK, Serb.
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Jean Bevilacqua Let me guess. You're a n00b to Youtube. I wasn't addressing you.
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@kennedychiti8042 In reply, you fired off a canned statement that has nothing to do with anything I wrote. Try again, "my dear" (I thought effeminate behaviour in men was frowned upon in your part of the world).
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Self-sustaining? You're like a caveman who rejoices about huge oil and gas deposits kilometres under his feet. Russia is notorious for its poorly diversified economy. It's been a recurring theme of Putin's to promise improvement, but little has happened ever since he gained power. Now, with foreign investors giving Russia wide birth and with access to the necessary technology cut off, it's even less likely to happen.
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Intellectual property. Read all about it.
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Oh no you don't. You can sell your 1931 Royal Enfield Bullet replicas to Russia, but pretty much anything containing modern electronics is a no-no, or you'll be slapped with sanctions yourselves.
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