Putin Faces Syria Money Crunch After U.S. Keeps Control of Oil

Althea said:
Because there is none, save for keeping the newly invigorated (thanks trump) ISIS from getting the revenue after Obama cut them off.
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Yes, killing them by the tens of thousands and then killing their leaders is very "invigorating" for ISIS...probably not as much as the OBAMIDIOT HANDING THEM LIBYA's MILITARY ARSENAL, and then CALLING THEM "THE JV" as THEY BUTCHERED THEIR WAY ACROSS IRAQ and SYRIA....

FROM ONE YEAR AGO. DITZ.

Russia Is Taking Over Syria’s Oil And Gas


https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Russia-Is-Taking-Over-Syrias-Oil-And-Gas.html

AND FROM THIS YEAR:



Russia’s Energy Interests in Syria


https://intpolicydigest.org/2019/05/12/russia-s-energy-interests-in-syria/





NOT SO FAST...THANKS TO PRES.TRUMP.


Obama, of course, WOULD HAVE GRABBED HIS ANKLES AND BEGGED VLADIPOO TO SPANK HIM, and TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF HIS "MORE FLEXIBILITY".


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Grokmaster said:
FROM ONE YEAR AGO. DITZ.

Russia Is Taking Over Syria’s Oil And Gas


https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Russia-Is-Taking-Over-Syrias-Oil-And-Gas.html

AND FROM THIS YEAR:



Russia’s Energy Interests in Syria


https://intpolicydigest.org/2019/05/12/russia-s-energy-interests-in-syria/
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LMAO @ 'ditz'. Like Sailor, you only read the header and never read your own links.

Moron. From your link:

[FONT=&quot]Before the onset of the blood-drenched Civil War, Syrian oil production wavered around 380,000 barrels per day. It has declined for some time then, since its all-time peak production rate of 677,000 barrels per day in 2002. Although the Islamic State was allegedly driven underground, the current output still stands at a devastating 14–15,000 barrels per day.[/FONT]
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Further...Moron:

[FONT=&quot]It’s an understatement to say that whoever takes over Syria’s energy sector will receive a desolate ruin. The country’s refineries need thorough reconstruction after their throughput capacity has halved from the pre-war level of 250,000 barrels per day. This task will most likely be carried out by Iranian companies, in accordance with [/FONT]agreements signed in September[FONT=&quot] last year, which also involved the reconstruction of Syria’s damaged power grid. However, it remains unclear whether this project will go through, as Tehran counted upon an Iran-Venezuela-Syria consortium, which is all but feasible now against the background of Venezuela disintegrating, a new solution ought to be found. In any case, Tehran already got what it wanted in Syria as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard already secured the telecommunications sector.[/FONT]
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Did I mention that you're a moron?
 
Althea said:
LMAO @ 'ditz'. Like Sailor, you only read the header and never read your own links.

Moron. From your link:



Further...Moron:




Did I mention that you're a moron?
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IRRELEVANT TO THE POINT THAT SYRIA'S OILFIELDS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO RUSSIA, DUMBFUCK. READ THE REST OF THE LINKS, DIPSHIT.



Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar al-Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.

The U.S. decision to keep forces in northeastern Syria to guard oil fields denies Assad access to desperately needed funds to rebuild the Middle East state after eight years of civil war. That’s adding to the urgency of United Nations-led talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups in Geneva starting Wednesday, which Putin has said could be “decisive” in settling the conflict.



Stupid ass.
 
dukkha said:
strategic to Syria, but not anything else
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It is arguably the most valuable piece of real estate in Syria. And is of strategic importance to all the big players in the region. All of them would like to have it.
 
Bigdog said:
It is arguably the most valuable piece of real estate in Syria. And is of strategic importance to all the big players in the region. All of them would like to have it.
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But Puttie gets to play in the sandbox with the Islamists.

We know who calls the shots in that relationship lol.
 
Gonzomin said:
It is a Syrian oil field and Russia is being hurt? It would be Syria who is losing out.
ISIS owned the fields when they had a bigger army. When they reconstitute, they will go after it again.
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I thought there is little oil coming from those fields, they are so dilapidated?
 
Phantasmal said:
I thought there is little oil coming from those fields, they are so dilapidated?
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We don’t need their oil.

It’s to keep it from falling into the wrong hands. Aka, the Russians or Assad. We should just get the hell out of it but yeah.

Doesn’t say much for the absurd Trump/Putin thing though.
 
At its peak, Syria produced less than four hundred thousand barrels a day, which generated about a quarter of government revenues.
But, as a result of the eight-year civil war and U.S. air strikes on oil installations seized by ISIS, production is down ninety per cent, to only about forty-thousand barrels per day, Yergin said.
That’s a negligible amount on global markets—inadequate even for Syria’s domestic needs.

as a result of the eight-year civil war and U.S. air strikes on oil installations seized by ISIS, production is down ninety per cent, to only about forty-thousand barrels per day, Yergin said.

After ISIS seized a third of Syrian territory, in 2014, oil became the financial lifeblood for the ISIS caliphate.
“Syrian oil took on global interest when it became a machine for generating revenue for ISIS,” Yergin said.
As the caliphate collapsed, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces took over running the fields.
Oil revenues supported its military and civilian programs.
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In March, I travelled throughout the northeastern third of Syria, where the bulk of Syria’s oil fields are located.

The al-Omar oil field, in the province of Deir Ezzor, near the border with Iraq, had been destroyed by U.S. air strikes.
It was the largest oil field seized by ISIS; its rigs and storage facilities were rusted, burned-out ruins.
U.S. Special Forces and the S.D.F. used the housing compound next to the fields as a forward operating base.
I stayed there during the final offensive against ISIS at Baghouz. Rigs in smaller oil fields farther north were still pumping.

The S.D.F. had converted an abandoned compound for an oil field in Dashisha into a makeshift prison for captured ISIS fighters. From the rooftop of the prison, I could see vintage pumps pulling up oil.
On a highway near Al Hasakah, near the Rumeilan fields, I counted forty-four oil tankers in a single convoy—for security—going in one direction, and thirty-seven tankers going the other way.
Through intermediaries, both ISIS and the S.D.F. sold oil to Damascus, U.S. officials told me.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trumps-baffling-plan-to-pillage-syrias-oil
 
Grokmaster said:
IRRELEVANT TO THE POINT THAT SYRIA'S OILFIELDS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO RUSSIA, DUMBFUCK. READ THE REST OF THE LINKS, DIPSHIT.



Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar al-Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.

The U.S. decision to keep forces in northeastern Syria to guard oil fields denies Assad access to desperately needed funds to rebuild the Middle East state after eight years of civil war. That’s adding to the urgency of United Nations-led talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups in Geneva starting Wednesday, which Putin has said could be “decisive” in settling the conflict.



Stupid ass.
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Moron. It will take billions to repair the damage done. ISIS could use the revenue from those few barrels that are now pumping. Now that trump undid all of Obama's hard work.
 
Althea said:
Moron. It will take billions to repair the damage done. ISIS could use the revenue from those few barrels that are now pumping. Now that trump undid all of Obama's hard work.
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The Russians have the money to rebuild it but now Trump is in their way.

Sorry/not sorry about your absurd conspiracy theory. This is more about hurting Assad than the Russians. There are still shots being called with the intent to damage and remove Assad—in spite, in fricking spite, of the painful lessons we have learned in the region in that regard.

If you had any sense, that would worry you more than Putin. Listen to Gabbard. She is one Democrat who has sense on this issue.
 
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Darth Omar said:
But Puttie gets to play in the sandbox with the Islamists.

We know who calls the shots in that relationship lol.
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Yeah, the whole Trump is a Russian spy working for Putin meme is insane and absurd.

I think the old angry white socialists know they are lying, when they tell that story to white millenials.
 
Darth Omar said:
The Russians have the money to rebuild it but now Trump is in their way.

Sorry/not sorry about your absurd conspiracy theory. This is more about hurting Assad than the Russians. There are still shots being called with the intent to damage and remove Assad—in spite, in fricking spite, of the painful lessons we have learned in the region in that regard.

If you had any sense, that would worry you more than Putin. Listen to Gabbard. She is one Democrat who has sense on this issue.
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:hand: outstanding post of this thread!
the problems in Syria are not 'da Russians" - it's the jihadi -they are the terrorists - remember?

* I know you get this Darth but idiots like ALTHEA and the rest of the Dumb Ass Dems
have so demonized Putin in their brain they can't even keep their feeble focus on the terrorists*
 
"Russia and Iran are partners." "We abandoned the Kurds." "Russia and Turkey are making nice."
^
all of the above is the CRAP they sell you to keep you there until you get killed or things go bad.
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The Russians own Syria. -fine let them. we don't even want anything there
And it's way to late to try to dislodge Iran who gobbled up territory while rolling up ISIS
 
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