Before recovery began to drop off due to a lack of enhanced oil recovery techniques being employed at the major fields – mostly located in the east near the border with Iraq or in the centre of the country, east of the city of Homs – it had been producing nearly 600,000 bpd. The second positive element in this context for Russia and China that feeds into the first is the criticality of Syria to the extension of this corridor all the way to the Mediterranean frontier of southern Europe. The core aim of this policy is to provoke a broader conflict in the Middle East that would draw in the U.S. and its allies into an unwinnable war of the sort seen recently in Iraq and Afghanistan, and which the Israel-Hamas War was always intended to be.
Author: Simon Watkins
Published at: 2025-05-05 21:00:00
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