Russia has correctly read shifting geopolitical sands to avoid the worst of sanction pain
Countries that didn’t have a say in global rulemaking 80 years ago certainly will now
The IMO’s technocratic nature might see it survive this shifting of the geopolitical plates
The IMO’s glacial pace of regulation may yet insulate it from widening geopolitical fault lines. But move too slowly, and nation states might decide to bypass it altogether

