This kind of absolutist thinking has little to do with reality.
One one side the situation is technically very different and might not have involved RIPE.
One the other hand just because one company does something unlawful and is in general recognized doesn't at all imply that countries changed the recognizing of boarder, like at all. Governments sometimes "accidentally overlooking" or delaying some problem is a pretty common diplomatic tool. For example most US tech companies would have had to stop providing anything involving server data storage to the EU years ago due bad interactions between GDPR and Cloud Act.
National law is not code. It's not meant to be as ridged as code. That would be an catastrophe.
Geopolitics are in some way even less ridged then national law.
One one side the situation is technically very different and might not have involved RIPE.
One the other hand just because one company does something unlawful and is in general recognized doesn't at all imply that countries changed the recognizing of boarder, like at all. Governments sometimes "accidentally overlooking" or delaying some problem is a pretty common diplomatic tool. For example most US tech companies would have had to stop providing anything involving server data storage to the EU years ago due bad interactions between GDPR and Cloud Act.
National law is not code. It's not meant to be as ridged as code. That would be an catastrophe.
Geopolitics are in some way even less ridged then national law.