Future gas-pipe projects, also drawing a red-line because of Russia's encroachment in the Ukraine over the past years- remember that Russia has a port in Syria, just like it had one in Crimea -indeed I believe that the crimean port was the only port the Russian navy had access towards all-year around, including the winter where normally the seas around Russia would be frozen solid.

There is a lot at stake.

As someone whose earliest intelligible memories are actually of the bullshit surrounding the run-off to the Iraq invasion, I don't believe any of this.