The larger cost is [[strategic]]. Easing sanctions for a volume this small hands Russia a [[financial]] lifeline for its war budget and trades away leverage over [[Moscow]], and strains relations with [[Kyiv]] and [[Brussels]], for a benefit that disappears in the noise of a 3 million barrel-a-day hole.}} | The larger cost is [[strategic]]. Easing sanctions for a volume this small hands Russia a [[financial]] lifeline for its war budget and trades away leverage over [[Moscow]], and strains relations with [[Kyiv]] and [[Brussels]], for a benefit that disappears in the noise of a 3 million barrel-a-day hole.}} |