Essentially the original intention of the Syria war was probably to put a US client regime in place so they could build a gas pipeline from the middle east into Turkey and into Europe via the southern route. Syria and the south of the Caspian are absolutely critical to this agenda. It explains the desire to regime change Syria, Iran and Libya. Its also why the US blew Nordstream up.
Its a critical problem for whoever is in the whitehouse - either they find some way to ship cheap gas to Europe or many of their client regimes including the one in Germany will fall and the Russians will be the dominant player in Europe. At which point they will be confronted with the choice of abandoning Europe and their positions on the Rhine or going full imperial and putting American tanks on the streets of Berlin to "normalise" the situation.
Shipping gas from Qatar and Azerbaijan via Turkey and into the Balkans would cut out Russia and allow them to maintain their client regimes without sending in the tanks.
I was glad Assad and the Russians defeated the last regime change op. The last thing we need is another Libya. At the time I was dumb enough to believe the neocons would retreat and lick their wounds. Little did we know they would bring one of their pet wars into Europe and destroy the entire European economy for the sake of this agenda.
Who knows - maybe more Machiavellian foreign policy actors might accede to Putin's control of the Donbas and Crimea and freeze the conflict in exchange for letting the US take Syria. But Syria is a useful pressure mechanism the Russians can use against the Turks and ties in with their relationship to Iran on their Southern border.
Essentially the original intention of the Syria war was probably to put a US client regime in place so they could build a gas pipeline from the middle east into Turkey and into Europe via the southern route. Syria and the south of the Caspian are absolutely critical to this agenda. It explains the desire to regime change Syria, Iran and Libya. Its also why the US blew Nordstream up.
Its a critical problem for whoever is in the whitehouse - either they find some way to ship cheap gas to Europe or many of their client regimes including the one in Germany will fall and the Russians will be the dominant player in Europe. At which point they will be confronted with the choice of abandoning Europe and their positions on the Rhine or going full imperial and putting American tanks on the streets of Berlin to "normalise" the situation.
Shipping gas from Qatar and Azerbaijan via Turkey and into the Balkans would cut out Russia and allow them to maintain their client regimes without sending in the tanks.
I was glad Assad and the Russians defeated the last regime change op. The last thing we need is another Libya. At the time I was dumb enough to believe the neocons would retreat and lick their wounds. Little did we know they would bring one of their pet wars into Europe and destroy the entire European economy for the sake of this agenda.
Who knows - maybe more Machiavellian foreign policy actors might accede to Putin's control of the Donbas and Crimea and freeze the conflict in exchange for letting the US take Syria. But Syria is a useful pressure mechanism the Russians can use against the Turks and ties in with their relationship to Iran on their Southern border.