[caww]

..."Russia likes being in a position of control of oil flow to europe"....

They're by-passing Syria in that respect....all roads leading thru Turkey now....

It's Saudi that wants Syria for it's pipeline....

[Little Ray]

Y’know, if they had just run it through Jordan and Israel...

But of course, the anti-Semitic Euroweenies and Arabs cannot allow any revenue to go to Israel and the Jews.

[amorphous]

In your top graphic, that will be Russian controlled oil when that pipeline gets built. Both Europe and the Saudis want a pipeline from the M.E. fields to Europe bypasing any countries Russia controls or is friendly to Russia. Hence the need to take out Assad's regime. The west blocked Russia's plans to build a pipeline through Ukraine, for now.

What's happening, IMO of course... :-D

More importantly, what these conficts eventually lead to.