Comment by mihaic

Comment by mihaic 2 days ago

> Weren’t they already selling pagers to Hezbollah?

I don't have info about those specific models, but this is pagers and not rockets. If someone makes an order for 5000 units I can't image you'd have an expectation to do a background check with references.

It's basically like ordering 5000 units of Raspberry Pi, would you consider that a military export?

PepperdineG 2 days ago

Raspberry Pis ending up in Russian weapons used in Ukraine is currently an issue actually, which it's illegal to export them to Russia.

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prepend 2 days ago

For the US, at least, I am forced to confirm that those 5000 raspberry pis aren’t going to a terrorist organization. Isn’t the EU the same way? So it’s not that it’s a military export, but that it’s a sanctioned organization (Iran and Hezbollah).

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mihaic 2 days ago

How are you realistically able to do this though? It's not like they can't order batches to some neutral-country intermediary and then ship them from there.

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- fooker 2 days ago
  
  It's about assigning liability and making it more difficult, not a definitive solution.
  
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ryathal 2 days ago

Communications equipment is commonly restricted for it's potential military use.

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