Commentary
Western sanctions on Russia have loopholes through which a self-driving truck with haywire AI could drive.
Businesses in Central Asia, for example, openly advertise online about how they serve as transshipment points to evade U.S. and EU sanctions “100 percent.”
The statistics back them up. As soon as the sanctions took effect, imports of goods from the United States and European Union shot up in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan. Those countries’ exports to Russia also jumped, according to The Wall Street Journal on May 14.
Russia assisted the trade last year by legalizing “parallel imports” done without the original producers’ permission….