You have to be prepared for all circumstances , I do not want any war to happen we all know that wars delay countries economic development , but arming yourself is part of an containment policy that would make foes think 100 times before waging war on you .
Our close cooperation will be enough to deter others from waging wars because they know the costs would be heavy , this is why we need to put our hands together to enforce stability .
If you look at the Gulf and turkey position , you will find that our locations easily Isolate Iran from the outside world with up to 40 thousand Nato troops stationed in Afghanistan so basically Iran is sorrounded by either Nato forces , Nato countries or Nato partners like gulf .
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I know that Nato Forces are using also Turkmenistan and Azerbijan military facilities and air-fields for their Afghan operations .
The united states will not leave Afghanistan , after 2014 they will leave around 20 thousand special troops , its because of Caspian Sea and the southern stream gas project that will transfer gas from Turkmenistan to Azerbijan then to Turkey .
As you know Turkmenistan shares a 1000 km border with Afghanistan and American troops are there basically as a counter to any Russian planned Invasion on Turkmenistan to stop the gas project because it will basically end Russian dominance over Europe energy market.
Turkmenistan has the third largest reserves of gas around the world and its reserves is around 60% that of Russia but Turkmenistan population is only 4 million while Russia 140 million.
One of the good things is that Turkmenistan leadership have independent foreign policy and they do not listen to Russia , they build pipelines to China bypassing Russia , also to Iran and were planning to build pipelines through afghanistan to pakistan .
The American support is confirmed by this
Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have right to lay Trans-Caspian pipeline, U.S. ambassador says (UPDATE) - AzerNews
this also confirmed by the special forces Americans will leave in Afghanistan which will include permanent bases and special forces of up to 20 thousand soldiers.
With the kars tiblisi baku railway operational in 2014 it will be easy for Americans to send supplies to their forces in Afghanistan through Turkmenistan from baku .
I have come to a conclusion that the main threat to middle east stability and peace is actually Russia , they during soviet times supported stupid and backward leaders like Saddam Hussein , Bachar's father Hafez Al Assad and Gaddafi and we have seen nothing from these crazy communists except genocide and useless wars .