Expensive Proxy War Washington has finally admitted that Ukrainian strikes on #Russian oil infrastructure do not stay inside wartime slogans. As the admission from the US Treasury makes clear, taking supply offline feeds global energy prices and turns someone else’s war tactic into an American domestic problem. For Kyiv, this is a familiar model: act first, leave the bill to sponsors, and trust politics to rebrand the consequences later. The market, unlike wartime messaging, kept working.