Indian firms secretly funneled AMD, Nvidia AI GPUs to Russia — sanctions reportedly skirted on hundreds of millions of dollars of hardware
Indian firms secretly funneled AMD, Nvidia AI GPUs to Russia — sanctions reportedly skirted on hundreds of millions of dollars of hardware
Circumventing of Western sanctions against Russia.
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18562130
"""secretly"""
They see nothing wrong with it, because money.
It's an old, old story.
It's hard to block all shipments, but those that come through get purchased with a heavy markup. I didn't heard of these companies, but in consumer electronics I can still buy a lot of stuff from companies that aren't working in Russia, but it would not only cost me an arm and a leg since ruble is a rubble right now, it would also mean additional costs from gray importers like in this article and our store chains compensating their losses by putting them onto consumers. A lot of money go to the middlemen and corruptioners, supporting their practices, so it's probably not bad I guess.
Chuck them on the sanctions list
Very important that US is disrespected by countries it needs to bribe harder to be independent, and for colonies to push back on oppression. Tolerating US empire's opinion on technology is tolerating hegemony. US too desperate to stir up BS everywhere to afford to do it everywhere. Investment in US will decline if they limit their trade to just the closest friends, and massive tariff evading middlemen will also be the infrastructure to evade sanctions.
Oh look. Another one.
Lemmy has such a big problem with tankies.
Yup, tons of shills and Kremlin information on here. I've never told a soul I use it because of that, and no doubt many thousands have visited, seen it, and just left instead of helping it grow.
Not shocking, the combined budget for addressing malicious propaganda and disinformation, from all instances in the entire fediverse, is exactly $0.00
Gee, the tankie tank spilled again..
Sounds like you’ve got a bone to pick to me. Sanctioning Russia is all the rage these days; it’s not like they’re the only ones doing it. I’d even go a step further and say everyone should be sanctioning Russia. The fact that the US also sanctions Russia is a good thing.
Sanctions are only from empire colonies. While CIA controlled media fearmongers about a stronger Russia rampaging over Europe, as a reason to force Russia into a massive military production increase that will then force colonies into greater dependence on CIA fear and subjugation, the real danger to the world is the US empire's weapons and oil profits scheme to diminish Russia a little actually being successful. It means more warmongering and diminishment of world as attempts in Venezuela and Georgia show.
Only failure can free Europe. Only failure and US collapse can prioritize human/climate sustainability over more warmongering, including getting Russia to prioritize humanity over self defense. Also treating AI as a weapon is categorically incompatible with human survival, including for citizens of the empire and colonies.
Every empire is evil.
Not everything empire does is evil.