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Why has the little nation of Qatar spent 3 billion dollars
to support the rebels in Syria? Could it be because Qatar is the
largest exporter of liquid natural gas in the world and Assad won't let
them build a natural gas pipeline through Syria? Of course. Qatar
wants to install a puppet regime in Syria that will allow them to build a
pipeline which will enable them to sell lots and lots of natural gas to
Europe. Why is Saudi Arabia spending huge amounts of money to help the
rebels and why has Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan
been "jetting from covert command centers near the Syrian front lines
to the Élysée Palace in Paris and the Kremlin in Moscow, seeking to
undermine the Assad regime"? Well, it turns out that Saudi Arabia
intends to install their own puppet government in Syria which will allow
the Saudis to control the flow of energy through the region. On the
other side, Russia very much prefers the Assad regime for a whole bunch
of reasons. One of those reasons is that Assad is helping to block the
flow of natural gas out of the Persian Gulf into Europe, thus ensuring
higher profits for Gazprom. Now the United States is getting directly
involved in the conflict. If the U.S. is successful in getting rid of
the Assad regime, it will be good for either the Saudis or Qatar (and
possibly for both), and it will be really bad for Russia. This is a
strategic geopolitical conflict about natural resources, religion and
money, and it really has nothing to do with chemical weapons at all.
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