Gas Trouble

If there is one thing we need at this supreme historical moment, it is another reason for Turkey and Greece to start fighting each other. Unlike non-Muslim nations such as the liberators of Iraq and Afghanistan, Turkey has an appetite for fossil fuels which may put it on a collision course with other countries, and the EU has added to the trouble by giving financial backing to a new gas pipeline in the eastern Mediterranean. At least one NGO has called for the whole business to be scrapped, on the grounds that pumping the Aegean's gas reserves into the atmosphere might violate even the pathetically inadequate restrictions set forth in the Paris climate agreement. Nevertheless, despite the promising prospects for selling weapons to one or both sides, the likely response of the newly-independent Global Britain, with its famous immunity to international treaties and its titular prime minister's ancestral Ottoman hatred for Western values, remains as yet unclear.