[Lacking the US as a supplier,...]
Couldn’t they have just “bought” what they needed from another supplier instead of invading and stealing it?
Your enemies. What you do is have nothing to do with them. Ann Rynd said it in an interview. Cutting off trade is perfectly alright. Supplying the enemy of another is perfectly within those limits.
Did the Lusitania carry weapons? Was flight 007 a spy plane? Let’s be more upfront about our interests. Biden’s in office. We have to deal with it and it ain’t pretty. Wouldn’t happen under Trump-does it matter now?