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originally posted by: 3n19m470
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: dragonridr
That's certainly my take on this mess, it's everything to do with oil and control of its flow and nothing to do with helping Syrian people.
I was asking xstealth for his take on this as he plainly called the oil theory a conspiracy theory.
Oil and natural gas are not the same thing, sorry to be a stickler.
originally posted by: dragonridr
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: xstealth
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: JAGStorm
The entire mess is over who gets the profits from gas pipelines.
It's really that simple.
Total conspiracy theory.
They could have already built the pipeline around Syria and been done 7 years ago for years of profit compared to waiting for this unending war and spend billions with their proxies.
America is exporting mass amounts of oil now, it's not about oil anymore.
Care to enlighten us all on what you think this is about then?
Its about Arab spring Syria was suppose to fall under control of Saudi Arabia. As far as US oil interests the longer Iran and Russia cant build pipeline through Syria the better for US companies. The US wants to export natural gas to Europe. Russia being able to move natural gas through pipelines means less buyers for US natural gas. As things set now the US to build higher capacity ports for LNG (liquefied natural gas). So the longer there is fighting in Syria the better it is for the United States.
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