Oil prices and the Syrian civil war
I ran across an interesting article while checking oil prices. I'm not much into conspiracy stuff but it never made much sense to me why all of a sudden Sunnis started revolting in Syria after decades of suppression. Why now?
This article makes the following claims:
1. In response to Russia shutting off NATO from natural gas and oil in 2009 NATO looked to complete a pipeline from the Persian Gulf. The first pipeline proposal would have went from Qatar through Saudi Arabia and the Sunni dominated parts of Jordan and Syria and then overland through Sunni Turkey. Then Assad strong armed a plan for a pipeline to go through Iran and Shia dominated parts of Iraq and Syria and then out to Europe over the Mediterranean Sea.
2. Saudi Arabia responded by funding Sunni revolts in Syria with the aim of overthrowing Assad (who is an Alawite Shia)
Separate issue touched on... the refugee crisis
3. Once the refugee crisis from the war ensued... Germany had different plans than the rest of Europe. It had at one time overcame its labor shortage with Turkish immigrants. But Turkey is increasing affluent and fewer are coming. So Germany wants every immigrant it can get to power it's strong economy. Meanwhile Germany's less affluent neighbors neither want nor need a flood of migrants. But as usual Germany pulls the rest of Europe to do what it wants, framing it as a "humanitarian need".
4. The article makes a comparison with Germany's decision to take all possible Mid East immigrants with Lebanon's similar decision in the 1960s. Many of the migrants had become radicalized and came from a war zone. Lebanon went from being compared to Switzerland in the 1960s to today being the next Syria.
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