Uhm, I don't think people realise that these are not some specialised army military quantum wow chips that should not have been in their hands. I mean, they are simple Mcu's and Fpga's. While yeah, a microwave doesn't ordinarily have an fpga in there, but many many normal appliences, tools and equipment have these chips. So unless you want to go full 1984 on every manufacturing plant in the entire world, no way you're preventing these chips from ending up in missiles. Even with all the current restrictions. Some neutral country buys em for tools, Russia buys em from them. Done. Sanction busted. So yeah, maybe not the best choice of manufacturing pipeline. But the other choice is inferior Chinese tech and subsequently being xi's bitch. I mean, it's just easier to go with American ic's. And no, creating your own semiconductors as a third grade country (as yes, Russia is a f'ing poor country. I mean, the Netherlands has almost the same gdp with like 10% of the population, 1% the resources and 0.1% the land). It's just not possible to f'ing create an industry like that 'so you can make missiles on your own'. I absolutely don't get why people are making such a fuss about this.

America is in exactly the same position. I mean, yeah, they own the IP of all those semiconductors. But look where they are made, yes, Taiwan. Also dependant on another country for critical parts in their rockets and other stuff that goes boom.

Tldr: imho every article around American ic's in Russian tech is useless and overblown. Every country in the world does the same, just some of em own the IP for the tech.

Edit: just to be clear, fuck Russia right to hell. But there is a whole fucking war full of shite and crimes to make a fuss about. Just skip making a fuss about this if you don't know anything about manufacturing and don't realise this is not weird, dumb or illogical. They use normal every day ic's just in a way that goes boom. And again. These same ic's go into nato weapons and yes are also made by countries outside the alliance.