Perhaps you could then tell me exactly how Turkmenistan meets its commitments to supply gas already sold to both Russia, Iran and China while potentially entering into contracts to sell gas to India through a pipeline that hasn't even been built yet?

As I stated before you cannot store natural gas. If you develop the field you either have to transport it immediately or you "flare" it off.

Your question:

"Teribus, explain to me why the Soviet Union saw Afghanistan as a geo-strategic asset back when they invaded that country?"

Simple answer was that they didn't.