Another small skirmish in the new great game in Turkey

I am sure you didn't even notice the fact that now Iraqi Oil is now flowing through the port of Ceyhan in Turkey. See this report.

This is something that the Americans and Europeans desperately want. If they can manage to extract oil from the Middle East and export through Turkey, it kills a whole flock of birds with one stone.

• It removes the bottleneck of the Persian Gulf as a threat to oil shipments.
• It brings Turkey firmly into the western alliance
• It removes Russia as the main supplier of oil/gas for Europe and provides a way to get middle eastern and central Asian oil/gas into Europe outside Russian soil
• It allows the Kurds to have a great new distribution channel which does not go through Shia or Sunni territory!
• It will remove the Southern Iraq vulnerability to the oil pipelines, currently all Iraqi oil is sent out from southern Iraq and Basra
• It will make it easier to attack Iran as there is no threat to oil flowing.
• It also allows the west to put the squeeze on Syria
• It allows for better control over the Caucasian countries

Interesting days ahead, my friends, interesting days ahead.


All this to be taken with a grain of piquant salt!!!