Leviathan oil basin in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea is likely the primary reason for turning Syria into slag. Jews already shelled Beirut to oblivion, Egypt is under a Western puppet regime, ISIS is still a relevant force in the region to disrupt flow of oil. With Israel the only politically and economically stable nation-state in the atea to develop Leviathan oil basin, the Western petrodollar hegemony has an insurance policy against the Sino-Russian resource axis. In a sense, this proxy war is about the very survival of the modern West.