Contourner Erdogan d'un coup ? Le plan de Trump pour faire affluer du pétrole irakien
L'envoyé spécial de Washington pour la Syrie et l'Irak, Tom Barrack, travaille sur ce dossier depuis des mois, alors que le géant américain de l'énergie Chevron, le français TotalEnergies et le groupe qatari UCC sont…
Évaluation
Washington appears to be advancing a plan to route Iraqi oil that would sideline Turkey and bypass President Erdogan's leverage over regional energy flows. The involvement of major Western and Qatari energy firms suggests the initiative has serious commercial momentum. The active role of the U.S. special envoy to Syria and Iraq indicates this is a high-level diplomatic and economic maneuver. The key question is whether this alternative corridor can overcome the logistical and political hurdles that have kept Iraqi oil dependent on Turkish pipelines until now.