In my opinion the greatest long-term damage to Russia from the sanctions will be in the semiconductor industry. Taiwan's TSMC is the largest semiconductor foundry in the world and Taiwan refuses to trade with Russia due to the Ukrainian invasion, INTEL and AMD also refuse to do business with Russia. In addition the Dutch company ASML dominates the manufacture of machines that manufacture semiconductors and they also refused to do business with Russia; the American company Applied Materials is #2 in the same business and of course they also refuse to sell anything to Russia. There are some chip foundries in Russia but they're using ancient Jurassic technology, it's 15 years out of date! Even China, Russia's only friend nowadays, can't produce anything that even comes close to what TSMC or ASML can make. The only trouble is it takes time for sanctions to work and I don't think Ukraine has that much time.
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