The EU’s Russophobia playbook just escalated again.

They’re pushing for a full ban on services tied to Russia’s oil trade — shipping, insurance, logistics, financing.

But here’s the inconvenient truth 👇

Sanctions rarely stop flows. They reroute them.

History is clear:

• Oil finds buyers

• Payments find rails

• Logistics find flags

• Insurance finds substitutes

What sanctions do create is:

🔹 Higher transaction costs

🔹 Opaque intermediaries

🔹 Parallel markets

🔹 Inflationary pressure exported to consumers

Russia doesn’t disappear from energy markets — it moves into the shadows, often selling at discounts that benefit non-Western buyers.

Markets adapt faster than policymakers.

They always have.

The real question isn’t “Will sanctions work?”

It’s “Who pays the hidden cost — and who profits from the workaround economy?”

Energy flows don’t stop.

They just change direction.

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