Nations and international organizations are increasingly using sanctions as a means to achieve their foreign policy aims. However, sanctions are ineffective if they are executed without a clear strategy responsive to the nature and changing behavior of the target.
🇪🇺 🇷🇺 The European Union has proposed banning the export of machine tools and machinery parts that Russia uses to make weapons targeting Ukraine, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.
🇷🇺 A rare look inside a covert Russian-led operation to get strategic technology protected by European export controls into the hands of the state - FT
Investigation by The Insider on Russia's enhanced filtering capacity - protocol-based blocking - and how it evaded sanctions to procure the equipment this requires.
Parking machines that stop working in Russia because their foreign software is no longer being updated or terminated at the end of its license as a result of sanctions may sound inconsequential, but expect there to be similar issues causing more serious disruptions elsewhere.
This particular disruptive impact of the sanctions takes effect with a delay but should not be underestimated, if only for the security issues resulting from the suspension of software updates. See also the article by @fa_burkhardt and me for SAIS Review of International Affairs.