All right, Alexander.

Let's talk about Syria and pipelines, energy, natural gas, and the topic of Syria being regime

change happening in Syria and now opening the way for Qatar to via Syria to Europe pipeline.

Via, it would have to go Syria, Turkey, Europe.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm trying to, yeah, I'm picturing the map right now.

So once again, Turkey would be a gas hub of sorts to Europe.

But that's one of the main theories as to why the regime change was so pursued after

by the collective West, all about removing Russia, blowing up Nord Stream, removing Russia from

Europe, and eventually removing Assad and opening up the way for gas to transit by Syria

into Europe. And all of your gas problems are solved for the European Union. Is that the

case?

Well, there is something to this story, but it's a lot more complicated and nuance than

people think.

And I get to just venture before I proceed, my own view, which is that this pipeline

is unlikely to happen for all kinds of reasons, which I'll come to

in a moment. But let's go back to the origins of this. Now, way back in the early 2000s,

the European Union was receiving pipelines from Russia, gas from Russia via pipelines, which at that

time were mostly across Ukraine, but Nord Stream was already being

built, Nord Stream 1, and as we know, it was all going to be followed with Nord Stream 2.

The European Union hated that.

The European Commission absolutely hated dependence on Russia.

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