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This is not a balanced view. There is only one quote here, giving a very particular interpretation of the importance of this proposed pipeline.WJDDrew (talk) 17:07, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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"Political scientists and journalists have postulated that the Syrian Civil War was an undercover CIA operation due to Ba'athist Syria's rejection of the pipeline proposal" is, I think, a questionably neutral statement, and one which is not backed up by any reliable sources. Many basic facts about this narrative have been challenged, notably the very existence of any Syrian rejection of any pipeline proposal. For example:

Russia’s Syria Intervention is Not All About Gas

The 'Pipelineistan' conspiracy: The war in Syria has never been about gas

The War Against the Assad Regime Is Not a “Pipeline War“

While I wouldn't consider any of these sources to be of equivalent reliability to any major news organization, they do bring up the relevant problem that it appears the topic of the article, the "Qatar-Turkey gas pipeline" never got past the concept stage and so there exists little to no evidence for the existence of any Syrian rejection of said pipeline. As far as I can tell, the earliest mention of any such rejection originates with the article Moscow rejects offer to drop Assad for arms deal from 2013, which in turn cites AFP. I can't find any evidence for the existence of this AFP source, so I would appreciate it if someone were able to find such a thing.

Moreover, the specific claim that this supposed rejection caused the Syrian Civil War is clearly disproved by the fact that the various Wikileaks documents show the US government started funding opponents of Assad as early as 2005/2006. Robert F. Kennedy Jr's famous article on the Syrian pipeline theory and many related works make a basic factual error in claiming this funding started in 2009. StSeanSpicer (talk) 04:40, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm writing in order to support this comment. There is a blatant pro-Assad and pro-Russian bias in a lot of material on the Syrian Civil War and it is a shame that resources are polluted by such biased sources and narratives. Daseyn (talk) 14:58, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]