lunes, 26 de febrero de 2018

Refugee Crisis & Syria War Fueled By Competing Gas Pipelines

Refugee Crisis & Syria War Fueled By Competing Gas Pipelines

 

 While there’s certainly a conversation taking place about refugees — who
they are, where they’re going, who’s helping them, and who isn’t —
what’s absent is a discussion on how to prevent these wars from starting
in the first place. #FlashbackFiles

 Note the purple line which traces the proposed Qatar-Turkey natural gas pipeline and note that all of the countries highlighted in red are part of a new coalition hastily put together after Turkey finally (in exchange for NATO’s acquiescence on Erdogan’s politically-motivated war with the PKK) agreed to allow the US to fly combat missions against ISIS targets from Incirlik. Now note which country along the purple line is not highlighted in red. That’s because Bashar al-Assad didn’t support the pipeline and now we’re seeing what happens when you’re a Mid-East strongman and you decide not to support something the US and Saudi Arabia want to get done.