Syrian representative Bashar al-Jaafari has delivered remarks to the UN Security Council this week, complaining that the US occupation forces are advancing effort to steal Syrian oil and gas through a business deal reached with Crescent Delta Energy.
That the US is planning to steal Syrian oil is non-controversial, as President Trump has made that position public for months. Crescent Delta Energy is contracted to take the oil, after Trump failed efforts to court larger companies. The deal is that any revenue going to Syria would be given to the Kurdish SDF.
Jaafari noted to the UN that the resources in question after needed for reconstruction after the war. Again this is not in serious dispute, and many see taking the oil as in part meant to assure that Syria can’t reconstruct if the war ends in a way the US does not approve of.
It is unclear if the UN Security Council will attempt to do anything about it, but the US will almost certainly veto, as Trump has made getting the oil the main goal of the war.
This has been going on for many years, the US took over from ISIS, oil for weapons trade.
ISIS stole the oil and transported the oil to the Turkish border and received western weapons and training, Russia destroyed the tankers from 2015.
Now the sanctioned Syria pays for US occupation and US mercenaries.
The SAA needs to find ways to attack any gas field that they try to rehabilitate and rightly proclaim that it’s an anti-smuggling effort, that they did the same for ISIS and this is no different.
So much for Geneva Conventions.
We, America, is using the excuse that the Curds belong in Syria to expand the lands of the Curds, the poor Curds, and create a base of operations for our military.
Israel is staking out the NE area of Syria.
Whats new ? USA stole Chinese golds through the Citi bank in earlier decades of 20th century . It froze the asset and then stole some of the Venezuelan money . Trump openly has asserted the right to stealing the oil from Iraq and Libya . I guess he did still something from Libya – he was mentioning something about not paying the Libyan gov.
A nation of pirates, thieves and gangsters.
The pirates of the Mediterranean…!
Pirates, thieves and gangsters. The world has very little respect left for the US of A.
It’s now up to the Russians, Chinese and Iran to step in. They can if they wanted to.
unscrupulous of the US
and I seriously doubt that the current US ‘foreign policy’ towards Syria and its govt and resources will change much, if at all, under Biden