Source: Foreign Policy
by Olena Tregub & Marc R DeVore
“For almost as long as it has been fighting its war against Ukraine, Russia has received help from its friends. In September 2022, Russia began using Iranian one-way attack drones; last May, it began using North Korean missiles to strike Ukrainian power stations, apartments, and military targets. That an expansionist, revisionist Russia is violating international agreements — including United Nations sanctions — by importing weapons from two rogue states should give the world cause for alarm. Worse, however, is what the debris from North Korean, Iranian, and Russian missiles has revealed: They are filled with newly produced Western electronics. In other words, the world’s most dangerous regimes are building their most lethal weapons using electronics from advanced industrial democracies despite supposedly stringent sanctions.” (02/04/25)