chemTrailActivist · @chemTrailActivi
16th Dec 2013 from TwitLonger
#syria #iran #qatar #pipeline #bandar
RT: Why have extremist rebel groups been so successful in edging out the more moderate opposition? Is it due to foreign backing?
PH: The one is a kind of neo-colonial motive for some of the traditional Western powers to want to direct, want to steer the destiny of Syria.
The British have been involved in this region for a lot of time and the French also have former colonial assets, including Syria and Lebanon.
They do have their motivations in terms of sphere influence, and, of course, Syria is a very, very important country strategically in the position between Israel, Iraq and Turkey.
You cannot get a more strategically important country than Syria in the Middle East, but
there are also tremendous natural gas reserves, some proven, some unproven, off the coast of Syria, Lebanon and Israel, also Iran and Cyprus.
This is a hugely untapped region as far as natural gas is concerned.
I think this is a factor for the Western long-term geopolitical strategy.
And also a potential pipeline that could one day be built
between Iran going through Iraq, then Syria and going to the Mediterranean to supply European markets directly
with natural gas from the gas fields shared by Iran and Qatar.
That cannot be discounted.
The US, Britain and France are thinking 20 years ahead.
This isn’t just about the chemical attack here, or a few thousand innocent civilians that have died; it’s not about that.
That’s about long-term geopolitical and energy strategies of
the traditional Western powers and corporations that run those particular countries, and
also keeping the Chinese influence out of the picture in the long run.
http://rt.com/op-edge/syria-western-intervention-jihadists-316/