> The only silence I've noticed is discussion about a pipeline through Syria
> to bring natural gas to EU countries. I had heard that Russia and Assad
> alliance was based on preventing the pipeline, thus assuring Russia a
> primary role in EU energy supply. This proxy contest seems to need more
> exposure.
>
The poor pipeline: it just wants to transport oil, but it's accused of being responsible for every war in the last decade. It could use a rebranding strategy.
Vulgar economism is vulgar.