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One reason is they have zero qualms dealing with anyone
Iran, Burma, China, Cambodia, Congo, Sudan, Syria, Zimbabwe. If you got money they got the shit. They also provide very favorable financial terms to despots. In fact the key reason that Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 was that their Russian arms dealers decided to finally pressure their German bankers to call their loans and pay them after a decade. This left Saddam with very few liquid assets so he decided to steal Kuwait's.