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I’d argue that it’s naive to think we can ever think non-individually as a species. Maybe I’ve just become cynical as I’ve aged and experienced though, not to say you haven’t also experienced - more that, if you have, your experiences have clearly been very different to my own.
So this boils down to, these products are more expensive now that sanctions are in place, because middlemen are needed to circumvent the sanctions.
That translates to sanctions working exactly as intended right? It doesn’t matter if they still get the product as long as it’s costing them a lot more than it would before sanctions.