Help from the East?

Is Bier Smarmer hoping for a rescue package from Put’n the Poisoner? Could be why he’s suddenly backing off sanctions on Put’nstan’s oil trade.
    There has to be a sinister reason for encouraging oil production by Put’nstan whilst preventing the UK from exploiting its abundant reserves and forcing us to buy oil and gas from elsewhere and shoving unnecessarily huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from other countries a long way around the world by doing so.