On Monday, Syria’s foreign minister addressed the UN General Assembly in New York and called on the US to end its military occupation of eastern Syria.
The US currently has about 900 troops stationed in eastern Syria and backs Kurdish forces in the region. This presence allows the US to control about one-third of Syria’s territory, an area where most of the country’s oil and wheat resources are located.
Officially, the US maintains that its presence in the country is about fighting ISIS, but the Syrian government rejects that notion. “Fighting terrorism does not happen through an illegitimate international coalition that violates Syria’s sovereignty and destroys towns and villages,” Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said at UN headquarters.
On top of the occupation, the US also maintains crippling economic sanctions on Syria. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has previously said that these sanctions are meant to prevent Syria’s reconstruction until there is a political settlement in Syria, meaning regime change in Damascus.
Mekdad discussed the sanctions on Syria, saying the country has been “economically besieged” by Western powers. “The war against Syria, ultimately, was an attempt by the West to maintain control over the world,” he said.
The situation in eastern Syria highlights the hypocrisy of the US, as President Biden’s address to the General Assembly focused on accusing Russia of violating the UN Charter by taking Ukraine’s territory.
“Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the United Nations Charter — no more important than the clear prohibition against countries taking the territory of their neighbor by force,” Biden said in his speech last week.
If Biden et al are so anti-Trump and all his policies, do they remember at all Trump’s 2019 statement about the US “keeping the oil” of Syria? Wasn’t that a bad, bad thing?
Yeah. Trump is just another thief at a larger scale.
But, it is OK for us to pirate the Iranian oil from their ships, then sell it on the open market.
Each day the US Administration is acting more and more like a rogue nation;
Stealing oil in Syria and Iraq and from Iranian ships and selling it . How low can they go? Whilst preaching that they uphold “the rule of Law and Order”
This breathtaking forked tongue behavior is apparent from the EARLIEST days of the foundation of the Rogue Nation
US upholds the “Rules Based Order”: My Way or the Highway.
There are 40 countries that support any thing the yanks do their vassals in NATO and those allied to them.
Maybe it’s time for the Russians to “take care” of them…
Another great insight from Dave DeCamp: The illegal presence of US Troops in Syria ought to prevent the US from criticizing Russia’s presence in Ukraine. But the duplicity is regularly ignored.
If the economy of Europe collapses, I wonder if Belgium and Germany might someday call the UN to remove US forces from their own countries.
NATO = HYPOCRISY
GTFO occupier!!!
The 900 US soldiers in Syria could be dead tomorrow if the decision was made. A retaliatory response would come up against the Russians. Is that the idea? Nukes in the desert would be more palatable than in Ukraine.
It might take a bit longer than tomorrow, but yes they’re very vulnerable.
They’re surrounded by thousands of hostiles armed with precision guided munitions. In a coordinated attack most of them could be dead in minutes.
I think those soldiers are doing their best to conceal the locations of their bunkers and the movement of their personnel. Guided missile drones aren’t much use if you don’t know where to find your target.
You can’t hide in a desert from satellites, drones, side looking radar, guys with binoculars, etc.. When and if the button gets pushed those 900 are dead, either in the initial strike or mopping up. They’re a token force with no hope of survival in a shooting war.
Fair enough. We should go, probably apoligize on the way out.
Tell me again how good the United States is. I keep forgetting.
Oh it’s an “exceptional” place. Exceptionally corrupt
Hi, I’m Mr. Wall Street and my partner the MIC… We agree that the USA is great!.. Please do continue to be oblivious America. We deeply enjoy picking your pockets.
“This presence allows the US to control about one-third of Syria’s territory, an area where most of the country’s oil and wheat resources are located.”
Wondering why the international community isn’t outraged and pouring money and weaponry into Syria to fight off the aggressors. And 30% is greater than the 20% Russia controlled Ukraine prior to the counteroffensive so the outrage should be greater. Plus, we are at the same time sanctioning them into even more misery.
Russia had many opportunities to empower Syria against both Israel and U.S. but they like their countries to be dependent on them.
Trump 2.0 policies continuing ALL of the terrible Trump policies, starting a war with Russia, and trying to start one with China. I’m so disgusted with Biden and congress.
Not a Trump fan. That being said, to claim the Ukraine war with Russia is flatly wrong. That war began with the US instigated coup that overthrew the elected Ukrainian government in 2014. That makes it Obama’s war. The Biden administration had multiple opportunities to avoid this calamity and failed The escalation of the war is Biden empowered. The failure on the March peace plan that was nixed by the Biden State department is again Biden.
The US is stealing 80% of the oil produced in Syria. Why would they leave?
Indeed, however things might get tougher for them as Syria and her allies step up their resistance to occupation. Those soldiers are pretty vulnerable in Eastern Syria, surrounded by their adversaries, who have more and more advanced rocket artillery.
Russia has been an ally of Syria since the old days of the Soviet Union.
Since WWIII is getting ready to commence anyways, Russia just needs to bomb the living shit out of the occupiers. Russian oil plus Syrian oil and THEY get to decide whom to export to!
I am tired of waiting. I hope the bloody Russian’s do something positive to protect their allies SOON.
UN is actually UNoUS, United Nations of United State, controlled by US since it is in US soil, a pathetic agency filled with corruption, hypocrisy and money hungry of US funds…!