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People who remember all the grey-market Cisco gear they could buy that came from China, might well be skeptical that Russia has been truly prevented from buying

• mamonster 4y ago
  They aren't fully fleshed out, but alternative import networks are already set up at least for some products, for example German cars are slowly coming back. You simply import to Azerbaijan(became even more popular as gas deal makes it less likely to be shut off) or Turkey(don't listen to Erdogan rhetoric on Crimea IMO, he is playing both sides really well as usual), and from there on out reship it to Russia with no problems. I don't know about chips, but European products will basically come back, but be more expensive as they now have to take detours of varying lengths.