Certainly,
Assad chose the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline over the Qatar-Saudi-Joardanian-syrian pipeline.
He chose poorly, bc the west ended up funding rebels to cause conflict and make the land useless.
Europe is at the mercy of whoever provides them oil anyways bc they're currently importing 33% of their oil and Nat gas from Russia.
Meanwhile, it has been known for decades that they'd do this.
Barcelona declaration of 1995, the EU agreed to import oil for immigrants.
Coincidentally, Bat Ye'or predicted this conflict in the '70s.
European immigrants are promised separate laws, hence why no one cares about the rapes, acid attacks… It's in the Barcelona Declaration.
Barcelona Declaration of 1995 was set to have the migration process begin in 2010.
The US power vacuum certainly helped, but this was inevitable.