Modern Diplomatic published an article explaining how the eastern Mediterranean region has become a flashpoint for geopolitical and struggle for regional hegemony and control over economic resources and competition for soft religious power, as well as interventions in the politics of others.

The author of the article James Dorsey says that the complexities in conflicts and conflicting interests expand the scope to focus on what is outside Russia when it comes to interfering in the elections, to include Turkey, the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, as it blurs the lines between multiple conflicts such as the wars in Syria and Libya and the struggle to control Gas sites discovered in the eastern Mediterranean.

The article notes that the waters of the Eastern Mediterranean have become the latest place where Russia and the West are grappling for influence, after revealing gas reserves of 122 trillion cubic feet.

Perhaps most important is the extent to which Europe can in the future reduce its dependence on Russian gas, as Moscow currently meets about 40% of the European Union's gas needs.

The writer says that the ability to reduce gas imports from Russia thanks to Eastern Mediterranean gas will enable Europe to take a stronger position in the conflict between Western liberalism and Russian civilization, which is likely to shape the world order.

The dependence on Russian gas prompted European countries to reduce their defenses from Western values ​​in exchange for the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin that include seizing lands in the Caucasus and Ukraine, intimidating Central Asian countries, supporting far-right and anti-immigration forces and neo-Nazis, and strengthening groups most sympathetic to the global outlook of the Russian leader .

"The bad news is that the confrontation between Washington and Moscow will continue, and the good news is that there will be a fence built around it," the author quotes the head of the Carnegie Moscow Center, Dimitri Trenin, as saying.

Trenin believes that the eastern Mediterranean region will be the region of tension, and not the regions of Crimea, Baltic, Arctic or Southeast Europe.

And Dorsey explains that if the conflict is for countries like Greece, Cyprus and Lebanon an economic issue centered on the resources of the Eastern Mediterranean, then the priority of other countries such as Egypt and Israel is the extension of influence, as well as Russia and Turkey.

Turkey, the writer continues, raised the stakes with its military support for the Libyan National Accord government against retired Major General Khalifa Hifter, who is backed by the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Russia.

Also, the agreement concluded by Ankara with Tripoli and that led to the establishment of an economic zone in the eastern Mediterranean, linked the war in Syria to the conflict in the eastern Mediterranean and Libya, especially with building relations between Haftar and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The economic zone created by the agreement would cut off the pipeline to transport Israeli gas to Europe.

The writer notes that the economic zone, if successfully imposed, along with the military performance of Turkey in Syria, will be an indication of regional countries aspiring to domination, such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE, that the money may not be sufficient to impose the will.