But there is this little state called Syria in the way and it is hard to go around it.

Actually this is why Putin wnts it so much.

It has nothing to do with your ISIS or the many problems you caused the region on behalf of the jews.

The real reason is that if we have a pipeline directly to the Near east through Syria and then Greece and Italy it will undermine a great venue of the Russian economy.

I'd say near-term. The 'cost' of gas here is transport cost we make the molecules accidentally as a by-product of fracking. Most of the price in LNG is paying for the L NG terminal.

One of the last ones they have.

It still cost more than the Russian or the Persian one @Jym

They just dig holes in the ground.

So right now Putin does his best to keep Turkey and Syria in line so the EU has no access to a direct pipeline to the Near east and we are stuck with theirs.

@yordanyordanov

For the moment. I'd remind you that our domestic oil cost is lower than much of the ME. And it's not like we are the sort of people to invent and entirely new energy method on the fly because someone thought there might be a profit margin......

This is what Syria mean for Putin.

I'd also say Syria meant more than that.

I tell you what the KGB has in the region.

Ultimately it means different things for different people.

I guess the Jews are the ones most invested in the war.

Far more than you or the Russians.

It's their damned neighbor, right?

The absolute lowest lifting costs on the planet is SA. SA and Iran have been fighting a proxy war for a while and SA has (correctly) decided that if they can dump oil on the market they can price the Persians out of much of it. This also undercuts Russian oil. So a beachhead and the capacity to destabalize routes even further in that region has some value to Russia.

Again, in so many ways, we don't give a fuck. Because the real loser in that sort of fight is China. The world's largest *importer* of oil at the far east tip of the supply chain........

Yeah, I know.

In the long term the most screwed are the Asians, not just China.

In terms of resources they are scarce, while in terms of population they are the largest ones.

I kind of get why the CCP acts in so dominant and cruel manner in HK then.

Well, it depends. Like I said most of our export is going to Asia now. The new LNG terminal in LA sent it's first shipment through Panama to Asia. We might maybe forget to send anything to China. Purely an oversight I am sure......

They really don't want to loose one of their biggest economic hubs when the state of the world is such that they might soon need it.

Currently Russia is supplying China with gas and i believe they already surpassed the EU as the biggest client there.

So it's a good business for the Russians but unfortunately for them their petroleum industry just can't keep up with the demand.

Like 10 years ago Putin actually wanted to make the growing Chinese dependent only on Russian energy

Or even close. China imports a lot of the, and this is a technical term they use in the military, "magic go-juice that makes ships tanks and planes work"

but then his geologists told him thee was just no way Russia can extract so much oil in the long term, so he had to give up.

It would have been a great deal for Russia, thou.

By the way do you know about the Estonia's tar sands?

http://www.tarsandsworld.com/estonia

Sure I mean that was where I was going. Again we do weird (often stupid) things but it means we can do weird (often stupid) things other places cannot. I mean Alberta also has tar-sands extraction but the lifting costs are higher than shale. Shale now I mean when we started it was 90 it's half that now.

If we didn't had so many green idiots in the EU parliament and such a strong pro-KGB lobby we could use Estonia's tar sands to power up Europe just like you are using Canada's to power the US.

This is actually why Russia wants a fight in the Baltic right now.

They are not as much concerned about their people or history there.

What they care about are those damned tar sands.

But or media still doesn't pay much attention to the issue.

Due to pressure form the green faggots this time around backed by the KGB I guess.

We are not using Alberta really. Keystone XL was an attempt to make transit costs of Alberta crude low enough to be useful here. But there were too many Green Canuks.