This is CVSI and the world. I'm John Bachelor to the Financial Times reporting on sanctions regime on Russia and its allies.

U.S. warns Turkey of consequences, in quotes,

over military-linked exports to Russia.

Subhead.

Washington seeks more action from Ankara in curbing trade pivotal to Moscow war machine.

I welcome Michael Bernstein of the Hoover Hoover Institution my guide on the sanctions regime

these two years and more and noting that Michael identified the middleman as profiting from the sanctions some years ago and here we are

Turkey now identified as the middlemen making money good for them but there are limits Michael a very good evening to you

there are a lot of happy traders in Turkey they've been making making money

by being the the in-betweens Russia's purchases and the U.S.

wish to visit sanctions on companies selling to Russia.

However, you tell me there are limits and consequences.

What are they? Good evening to you, Michael.

I am good evening to you. This is old Russian adage that the war is the war for some people and the second mother to other people

because it kind of enriches all the middlemen who try to bypass and avoid the sanctions.

And Turkey has been for the last two years.

The number two, I wouldn't say, a violator,

because they didn't sign up to support the sanctions.

But they went against the United States, against the Europeans, against the NATO members.

They are supposed to be an ally. They are not like China.

And nonetheless, Turkey has been the second most important reseller of American equipment, and this equipment

includes memory cards, it includes chips, everything that they buy from the world market and from the United States and

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