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> Rules are made to cause trouble for the average law-abiding citizen, but have almost no effect on actual criminals.

I'll bite, how do you think the justice system should work?

Laws and their corresponding punishments are deterrents. And judges have flexibility in applying them to handle issues of accidental vs. intentional rule violation.

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> how do you think the justice system should work?

I don't know, and I am not saying we should turn the country into North Korea or China with full government control, that's far worse.

> And judges have flexibility in applying them

They can only apply them to those caught, and that's the problem here. Only a very small percentage of those violating the sanctions are actually caught at all in the first place.

I would disagree that there's a problem here. As mentioned much better in other replies, there's a global supply chain and these are commodity parts. This is on the order of jaywalking or going 2mph the speed limit on the highway.

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