Exhibit A for why you can't/shouldn't use sanctions (filters) to try to dissuade an opponent from doing things you don't like them doing.

It just doesn't fucking work, brahIt just doesn't fucking work, brah

People get around it, find ways to overcome or undermine or side-step your stupid hurdle. Where there's a will, there's a way, etc

The BIPtards should take notice.

In the geopolitical domain, Europooreans (the _OG_ BIPtards, one might say) have been trying to same thing since 2022(!), "banning" or "sanctioning" Russian energy. Buhu, bad man sells baaaad stuff... let's just TAKE OUR BALL AND GO HOME!

Nicholas Mulder's book on this was perfect and perfectly timed, alas the idiots in charge learned nothing from it. Shocker. (I wonder what that means for the BIPtards?)

Greek shipping billionaire Mr. Prokopiou said fuck that... imma profit. #1491575

Greek shipping companies have made at least $3.8bn transporting Russian oil over the past three years even as G7 nations sought to curb the Kremlin’s oil revenues. The company that made the most from the trade was Dynacom Tankers, founded by Greek shipping billionaire George Prokopiou. Dynacom made at least $915mn in revenues shipping Russian crude since July 2023, according to FT calculations.

Of the top 20 companies that have made the most from Russian shipments since June 2023, eight are Greek. The others are all Russian state-backed shipping companies such as Sovcomflot and Rosnefteflot or subsidiaries or front companies associated with them, with the exception of Hong Kong-based ship manager Prominent.

Shit. Gets. Through.

And your silly filters do nothing but annoy people along the edges plus, importantly, let you claim the moral high ground and virtue signal. sigh... I wonder if that was the point all along?

"Greek shipowners are renowned as among the most risk-tolerant in the industry. Dynacom has been among the most active shipping companies in the Strait of Hormuz since the outbreak of the Gulf conflict on February 28.""Greek shipowners are renowned as among the most risk-tolerant in the industry. Dynacom has been among the most active shipping companies in the Strait of Hormuz since the outbreak of the Gulf conflict on February 28."

It's very similar to the BIPtardary since it only requires a select few non-cooperatives to undermine the entire "sanctions"/filtering regime.

Again, fast forward a few months and I'm sure we'll have the online BIP-personas running a campaign group called BIPtardary We Stand, complaining about "obvious gaps in the system."

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