It remains to be seen, as they are now incentivised to develop their own, or take Taiwanese chips, now that they've been cut off from freedom chips. It will mainly come down to how well the enforcement regime upholds the barrier that the US has asked to be upheld, and how successful China is in doing chips from scratch.

Welcome to the world of private choice. Companies, if not compelled otherwise, will have their interests and will try their best to serve such interests, to serve Russian market needs, especially military market needs.

It's like the US recently being shocked at American companies in large part assisting the skyrocketing Chinese tech industries through initial development stages of chip-making, and then the US govt. forgetting all notions of freedom in trade and banning this international affair, which forced private American companies previously doing big business with China, like NVIDIA, to take significant business losses. It will be the people within the most ardent opposition countries to Russia, that will be the most interested in assisting it. They will find a way to assist it one way or another.

The word "sodomy" is severely outdated, and the laws pertaining to it can safely be relegated as one of those weird "trivia" laws, provided that homosexuality as a whole is decriminalised.

Like, you can't secure a conviction if you prove before a Court that ass-insertion took place.

Just correcting the other comment,

Before 1979, United Kingdom followed a protocol for medical examination of women who were immigrating to their country to marry their fiancées. This protocol would have gone on forever if an Indian woman hadn’t raised her voice after being examined in a manner which not only breached her privacy but also insulted her dignity.

On 24th January, 1979, an Indian woman landed at the Heathrow Airport. She was immigrating to London to marry her fiancée who was a British of Indian origin. At that time, people entering Britain didn’t need any visa if they were going to marry their fiancées within 3 months. But, the Indian lady had to undergo an extensive medical examination onto her plans to settle in Britain. The immigration officer was doubtful that this was her first marriage and was somewhat sure of her having children already. This may have occurred because of the age of the woman (Well, men can marry when they want to marry. A 35 year single woman is still not acceptable).

A week later, this practice made headlines in one of the famous newspapers of London thus exposing the practice of Virginity test, also known as the two finger test. Immediately, disciplinary action was ordered against the immigration officials who were suspected of having carried out these tests. Irony was that the newspaper article recorded a statement by Indian High Deputy commissioner at that time, where he had asked the British government to ban this practice as it was outrageous and was carried nowhere else in the world.

https://sayfty.com/do-you-know-about-the-two-finger-test/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/may/08/virginity-tests-immigrants-prejudices-britain

>India proofed to be only interested in itself and incapable to play a bigger role in international diplomacy

At least they don't try to further self-interests in the guise of furthering international diplomacy, or transparently advocate for a non-diplomatic, violent approach. Assuming of course that the notion of India "only" interested in itself was true, and had it not given aid to AF, Ukraine and Sri Lanka going by recent memory alone.

People say this whataboutism isn't having any effect, but it does cause displays of shock and awe to ring a bit hollow.