The Europeans will eventually war against Russia to keep it from controlling the Middle East. This may not happen for a while, but it will happen eventually. The Europeans do NOT want to be held hostage by Russia (in the form of high oil prices and single sourcing).
Well... They could always start building nuclear reactors.
“The Europeans do NOT want to be held hostage by Russia (in the form of high oil prices and single sourcing).”
The Europeans are holding themselves hostage, as far as energy is concerned. There’s 400 years of coal on the continent. Britain is sitting on a minimum of 100 years of gas, accessible via fraking. The global warming brainwashing has completely paralyzed the Europeans. Morons.
“The Europeans will eventually war against Russia to keep it from controlling the Middle East.”
I am sure Putin loses hours of sleep every night worrying about the European Army
That's not even funny. The Europeans have no chance to win such a war if they start it. At their best effort they will only manage to kill everyone on the planet. But a far more realistic scenario is that they will surrender after a few key cities are destroyed. The term for that is "unacceptable losses." For that reason EU will direct their war effort at countries that have no nukes or air defense - like Libya. Unfortunately, such targets also have little importance.
If I'm an European and I had a choice between living under Russian domination or Islamic Caliphate, I'll rather be ruled by the Russians.
If I'm an European and I had a choice between living under Russian domination or Islamic Caliphate, I'll rather be ruled by the Russians.
I happened to recently be at a breakfast meeting with a presentation by a university professor Russia / Russian government expert. The talk was generally about Putin, the Ukraine, and Syria.
In Q&A I asked if what Putin being in Syria might be about, was stopping the ability of the ISIS Sunnis to ultimately allow Sunni (Arabian Peninsula) oil and gas pipelines to transit Syria to get to the Med and Europe. Assad has been a bit of a client state of Iran (Shiites), and friendly to their interests, which coincide with the Russian interest of limiting the flow of pipeline energy from the Sunni states in the Arabian Peninsula to Europe.
I was dumbfounded when he said he hadn’t thought about that, in a way that made me think he would some in the future.