11-24-2015, 10:45 AM
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Turkey/US wants the Saudi/Qatari natural gas pipeline through Syria/Turkey to the sea to transport gas to Europe to break the Russian monopoly. Russia obviously doesn't want that. This is not being talked about. It was bound to happen.....Could get real ugly.
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According to the New Times it is a well-documented fact that ISIS oil shipment ends up in Turkey. The millions of dollars in oil revenue that has made ISIS one of the wealthiest terror groups in history, is now threatened by Russia.
In the short time in which Russia has been involved in bombing of ISIS the transportation of oil has been impacted. According to Russian General Staff spokesman Colonel General Andrey Kartapolov, ?around 500 fuel tanker vehicles transporting illegal oil from Syria to Iraq for processing have been destroyed by Russia?s Air Forces.?
?In recent years, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and other extremist groups have organized the operations of the so-called ?pipeline on wheels? on the territories they control,? Kartapolov continued, adding that ?in just the first few days, [Russian] aviation has destroyed 500 fuel tanker trucks, which greatly reduced illegal oil export capabilities of the militants and, accordingly, their income from oil smuggling.?
So is it any wonder that Turkey would want to stop the Russian air assault on ISIS? What will be interesting is how the US government will respond to this event.
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