• DaBIGmeow888@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    BIS doesn’t have the budget or manpower to track consumer-grade GPUs end-uses.

    Weapons for raging conflict is vastly different.

    • iohognbdfh66@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      These sanctions are more political than practical anyways. They’re not actually stopping shit.

      • starkistuna@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        its slows them down , since they cant buy up in bulk by buying up pallets and pallets of cards , and have to buy through black market where cards likely pass by several hands like a faucet. Getting cards into China via Vietnam and Thailand are going to make serious coin to those resellers that buy them and import them illegally. They have over 400k kilometers of rivers and lakes that facilitate moving goods invisibly super easy not counting ocean.