Russia's air strikes on Ukraine aimed using satellite images from US companies
theatlantic.comThis is part of a trend. Sanctions are easy to get around. The Russian war machine runs on Western parts, much as it did in th WWII.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-got-components-w...
More recently, Starlinks started to be used by Russian troops in the occupied territories.
But the difference between a US chip being used in Russian devices, and a Starlink terminal or satellite image archive being bought by Russians, is that the latter are digital services where it is relatively easy to identify the user, and which can be turned off any time!
> much as it did in th WWII.
People tend to forget they were our allies back then
Only after Operation Barbarossa. USSR was allied with Germans and started WW2 together with Hitler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland
>The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had approved the pact.[15] The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September.
>The most remarkable event of this kind occurred at Brest-Litovsk on 22 September. The German 19th Panzer Corps—commanded by General Heinz Guderian—had occupied the city, which lay within the Soviet sphere of interest. When the Soviet 29th Tank Brigade (commanded by Semyon Krivoshein) approached, the commanders agreed that the German troops would withdraw and the Soviet troops would enter the city, saluting each other.[111] At Brest-Litovsk, Soviet and German commanders held a joint victory parade before German forces withdrew westward behind a new demarcation line
May 1st. 1941 Red Square, Moscow parade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZbN_ujVWKY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day
>Notable parades included the parade of 1941 (which saw the presence of a Wehrmacht delegation led by Ernst August Köstring[133])
People may, but I am not. Back then, we gave them equipment for free to beat the Nazis.
Today, Russia buys western equipment at a 10% markup after sanctions. As Lenin said: 'The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.'
The supplier relationship in both wars is simply a symptom of the West being more advanced in quality or capacity for the parts and services in question.