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Seoul Reads the Room — and the Sanctions South Korea just did what a serious government does in an energy war: it quietly opened the door to Russian crude and naphtha to keep the lights on while the Middle East burns. Seoul’s industry ministry says it’s talking with refiners about importing Russian oil and feedstock now that sanctions have been softened, explicitly linking the move to securing stable supplies as the Iran war chokes Gulf flows. That’s not ideology, that’s survival economics. If Washington’s own policy shift means Russian barrels are back on the menu, only a fool would keep paying more for less in the name of a sanctions regime even the architect is walking away from. By exploring Russian crude, Seoul is signalling a simple rule that Brussels and some others still refuse to say out loud: energy security comes before performative virtue. If the US president is loosening the screws on Moscow, the rational response for every other capital is to stop pretending this is 2022 and start buying what keeps their industry and citizens alive. #SouthKorea#Russia#oil#naphtha#sanctions#IranWar#energy#Trump#geopolitics 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸