You're sort of building this up as the idea of the US forcing its norms and laws on others, but that isn't what this is. The merits of protecting IP exist wheth

You're sort of building this up as the idea of the US forcing its norms and laws on others, but that isn't what this is. The merits of protecting IP exist whether or not they are prevalent in any country. When participating in a global economy, other participants expect fair dealing. What do you think will happen now with Russia? We'll assume they are going to try to steal our tech. Instead of trading with them, we won't do business with them at all whenever possible. We learned this the hard way with China. And their internal incentives to create IP also disappear - who would want to spend time building an app in Russia when the guy next door is now allowed to steal it and sell it as its own? Nobody. You're going to see much more draconian DRM. User experience will suffer. Less tech will be created. People will avoid doing business with Russia (and we already see that happening, and it was already true to an extent before they started murdering Ukrainians). And Russia's economy will continue to fail.