I wouldn't want to over state it, but from the point of view of a nation state excluded from a class of technology, acquiring it by means which look unusual and probably are is not inherently "wrong" -it probably breaks at least one other nations laws and attracts sanctions but you won't get any party from the USSR or the PRC or any other trade sanctioned economy past and present to agree "they did a wrong thing" because firstly states are essentially amoral and do things in the interest of the state good or bad, right or wrong, they are judged as fruitful or unfruitful and secondly although it's classic "whataboutism" in many ways, "you made me do it" is very strong.
"You only leapfrogged us by stealing our tech and copying it" is a very weak line of reasoning. "You did not contribute to the embedded R&D costs to get to this point" is dickering about the price attributed to all three of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill.
I'm re-reading proust for bed-time, and if you want long run-on sentences you cannot go past it. But your point is well made: I could (and should) have made the useful punctuation changes for pauses in the flow.
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I wouldn't want to over state it, but from the point of view of a nation state excluded from a class of technology, acquiring it by means which look unusual and probably are is not inherently "wrong" -it probably breaks at least one other nations laws and attracts sanctions but you won't get any party from the USSR or the PRC or any other trade sanctioned economy past and present to agree "they did a wrong thing" because firstly states are essentially amoral and do things in the interest of the state good or bad, right or wrong, they are judged as fruitful or unfruitful and secondly although it's classic "whataboutism" in many ways, "you made me do it" is very strong.
"You only leapfrogged us by stealing our tech and copying it" is a very weak line of reasoning. "You did not contribute to the embedded R&D costs to get to this point" is dickering about the price attributed to all three of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill.
That is the longest run-on sentence I've seen in quite some time
I'm re-reading proust for bed-time, and if you want long run-on sentences you cannot go past it. But your point is well made: I could (and should) have made the useful punctuation changes for pauses in the flow.