U.S. ‘Disgusted’ As Russia And China Veto U.N. Resolution On Syria

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60. It's a move against Iran, but don't overlook the pipeline from Kurdistan to the Mediterranean

One of the first pipelines in the Middle East (1934) ran from around Kirkuk to al Haditha, and then to the Mediterranean coast at Tripoli and at Haifa.

Peeling off Kurdistan and Kurdish oil from increasingly Shiite controlled Iraq has always been a priority. But given the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline has suffered repeated attacks and interruptions of flow. It is not reliable.

A compliant Syria would allow the establishment of a new pipeline to the Med that avoids Turkey and is much more reliable as well as going through more hospitible terrain.

It also increases the power of the Sunni Arabs controlling the "new Syria", who would likely be in alliance with the Iraqi Sunni and Jordanians under the influence of Saudi Arabia as the big Sunni power.

This drives a Sunni controlled wedge between the Shiites in Lebanon, in the coastal areas of Syria, and in the Hatay Province and nearby areas of Turkey and the Shiite core area in Iraq and Iran.