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  They didn’t want it enough not to bomb it
context: Geopolitics is so weird to me. They're at war but still let them transport their oil through their country. >
  
  There are multiple reasons:
  1) they use this oil too 
  2) some of the oil is heading to Europe and if you shut it down they aren’t that happy 
  3) they get some money for letting it flew through their country (transit tariff) >
  
  Who is paying for the transit though? Russia or the buying country? >
  
  Russia in theory, however, regulary the transit tax is included on the bill of the buying country. >
  
  Yes but then Russia needs to adjust the price of the oil so that the oil plus transit cost is still competitive compared to oil and gas from other countries. This is why they wanted direct gas pipeline to Germany.