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		TulliusCicero on April 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cisco Systems pulled out of Russia: destroyed $23.... Probably, but will they be able to reverse engineer and produce successfully? Everything I've read about Russia indicates that, while they have plenty of smart engineers, the business culture and civic society are so messed up that they have lots of problems actually making things in practice. Too much corruption and people trying to take advantage of each other. Well, maybe less now, since so many IT workers fled

monocasa on April 5, 2023 [–]

But any problems there aren't an issue of sourcing units to reverse engineer. Practically, the sanctions won't function that way.

TulliusCicero on April 5, 2023 | [–]

Sanctions might make production harder in other ways, limiting access to machines that make machines, for instance.

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