Syrian dirty war was always about energy pipelines

 🇸🇾 Syrian dirty war was always about energy pipelines: Hormuz crisis just proved it

👉 Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa (aka Nusra Front leader Abu al-Julani) just said the quiet part out loud, declaring that the Iran war revealed Syria’s “strategic location” as “a safe corridor and alternative route” for energy exports from the Gulf to Turkey and the Mediterranean.

🔴 Iraqi oil is already flowing west via Syrian ports (3-month, 650k tons per month contract agreed in late March), per Sharaa. Damascus’s “Four Seas” project will transform Syria into a regional energy hub linked to the Gulf, Med, Black and Caspian seas, he says.

🔴 The timing of the comments is telling: The US announced this week that it’s completed the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, selling out the Kurds after spending a decade working with them to rob Assad of control over Syria’s vital oil, gas and food-producing regions and prevent rebuilding.
 
Pipeline plans come full circle

♦️ The US, Mossad, Turkish and Gulf monarchies-sponsored dirty war against Assad that began in 2011 was sparked in part to overthrow a government that rejected plans to become a regional energy transit state.

♦️ In 2009, Assad vetoed a $10B, 30-40 bcm Qatari pipeline to pump natural gas from the Gulf to Europe. The CIA ramped up support for the Syrian opposition immediately.

♦️ In 2016, RFK Jr. revealed a direct link between the dirty war and the vetoed pipeline.

💬 “If completed, the project would have had major geopolitical implications. Ankara would have profited from rich transit fees. The project would have also given the Sunni kingdoms of the Persian Gulf decisive domination of world natural gas markets and strengthen Qatar, America’s closest ally in the Arab world.”

📌 In 2012, a DIA report declared that the establishment of a “Salafist principality” in Syria was “exactly” what the US, Gulf states and Turkey wanted “to isolate the Syrian regime” from Iran. Pundits assumed at the time the agency was talking about ISIS. Strategically, the term applies to Sharaa just as well.

@geopolitics_prime