Across the driveways of Canadian cities, a quiet and coordinated plunder is underway — one whose full arc stretches from suburban neighborhoods to Russian ports, tracing the contours of geopolitical friction and enforcement failure. New York Times reporters have mapped a sophisticated theft-to-export network in which luxury vehicles are stolen to order in Canada and smuggled through the United States before reaching Russian buyers shut out of legitimate Western markets by sanctions. The story is less about car theft than about what happens when organized crime finds the seams between jurisdict