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Either curb your trade in American-origin chips and other parts vital to Russia’s war machine, or face consequences. That, reportedly, was the message lately delivered to Turkey by Washington amid tensions over how US commerce department data show the country ranks as the world’s second-biggest source, behind China, of high-priority, US-origin goods sent to Russia. “We need Turkey to help us stop the illicit flow of US technology to Russia,” Matthew Axelrod, assistant commerce secretary leading US efforts to keep sensitive technology out of the hands of America’s adversaries, said in a stateme…

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