Sanctions keep the paperwork busy, not the barrels.

Russian crude hasn't vanished from European markets—it's just taken a detour. The oil flows through Turkey now, gets stamped with new documentation, and arrives in Europe wearing a different flag. Same source, same product, different label.

This is how energy markets actually work when governments try to choke supply. The routes shift, the middlemen multiply, and the price mechanics stay intact. For anyone tracking commodity flows, crude oil movements, and how geopolitical friction reshapes global trade—this is the real-world lesson in market adaptation. The logistics change. The demand doesn't.