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| Is the U.S. going to war in Syria over a natural gas pipeline ? |
| 2013-09-05 |
| [Zero Hedge] As we asked (rhetorically, of course) and answered over 3 months ago, why has the little nation of Qatar spent 3 billion dollars to support the rebels in Syria? The answer revolves, as usually is the case in the Middle East, around a pipeline. Here are some additional perspectives. Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog, Could it be because Qatar is the largest exporter of liquid natural gas in the world and Assad won't let them build a natural gas pipeline through Syria? Of course. Qatar wants to install a puppet regime in Syria that will allow them to build a pipeline which will enable them to sell lots and lots of natural gas to Europe. [ZH: And as we asked last week, why is Saudi Arabia spending huge amounts of money to help the rebels and why has Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan been "jetting from covert command centers near the Syrian front lines to the Élysée Palace in Paris and the Kremlin in Moscow, seeking to undermine the Assad regime"?] Well, it turns out that Saudi Arabia intends to install their own puppet government in Syria which will allow the Saudis to control the flow of energy through the region. On the other side, Russia very much prefers the Assad regime for a whole bunch of reasons. One of those reasons is that Assad is helping to block the flow of natural gas out of the Persian Gulf into Europe, thus ensuring higher profits for Gazprom. Lengthy article with additional links continues. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Insane to think of a pipeline from Qatar through Saudi Arabia/Iraq or Jordan and into Syria when Qatar is a port city. I thought pipelines were primarily to get stuff from inland to ports, not to provide long vunerable terrorist targets. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-09-05 14:40 |
| #1 One of the many prisms this Bizarro-World situation could be looked at through. Follow the money.... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-09-05 12:57 |