On Wednesday, the House passed a bill that prohibits the US from opening diplomatic relations with the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad and expands harsh sanctions on Syria to prevent other countries from normalizing with Syria.
The Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act passed in a vote of 389-32, demonstrating broad bipartisan support for the economic war against Syria. Only 28 Democrats and four Republicans voted against the bill. The legislation now heads to the Senate.
The bill was introduced as a reaction to Arab countries repairing relations with the Assad government and Syria being brought back into the Arab league. Hawks in the US are opposed to Syria’s regional integration and are hoping they can prevent it using sanctions under the Caesar Act.
The Caesar Act was implemented in 2020 and allows the US to sanction any individual or entity that does business with the Syrian government. The sanctions are specifically designed to prevent Syria from rebuilding, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken has previously said it’s US policy to “oppose the reconstruction of Syria” as long as Assad remains in power.
The text of the bill declares that it’s US policy “to actively oppose recognition or normalization of relations by other governments with any Government of Syria that is led by Bashar Al-Assad, including by fully implementing the mandatory primary and secondary sanctions in the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act.”
On top of the economic sanctions on Syria, the US has about 900 troops occupying the eastern portion of the country, where it backs the Kurdish-led SDF and controls oil fields. Recent reports have suggested the US was considering a withdrawal from Syria as its forces have been under attack since October due to US support for the Israeli slaughter in Gaza. But an SDF commander said last week that he received assurances from the US that a withdrawal was not on the table.
What has Syria done to us? Why are they punished protecting themselves, while Israel is protected while committing GENOCIDE? Arab/Muslim Nations need to stop relying on the USA, UK, EU, for anything, move away from those who continually find excuses to bomb and kill their people. Every time Israel says BOMB them, that is what these Monster Nations do, so why trust them?
We pirated Iranian oil tankers, then sold the oil on the open market. We have troops sitting on Syrian oil fields, while we steal the oil. We are back in Somalia and Nigeria, to secure their resources for us.
Stealing oil?
Show your evidence.
Hey, where do live again? 🤣
Pay attention to the news.
All Don Julio, jake and Tim Burns have to do is Google, Bing or Duck,Duck, Go, and, voila’……………
Great thinking guys. The idiots will drive other countries away from us and to each other. Just stupid.
The US Congress has the collective intelligence of the Ukrainian dictatorship forbidding negotiations with Russia.
You meant, collective tiny intelligence of the Russian midget dictator.? 🤣
Negotiations with Rusia?
Meaning, Putin takes all? Nah, im sure Ukranians would rather fight than being slaves and i think they have gained tons of respect from the Russian invaders.
The tiny poor small Ukrainian country has kept the “ second strongest army in the world” from advancing and taking their country.
F your negotiations. If you want negotiations, get the F out, dipsh!t.
What a fluffer. 🤣
You know, Putin is a real statesman, he towers over our senile Biden and irrational Trump. I know you don’t like to hear that, but it is reality.
We too should be grateful to Putin. He is a well balanced rational and competent head of state without him we could very well have WW III ALREADY, considering the insanity of our criminals in DC.
I must say, Putin has good people working with him, birds of a feather flock together. Biden picked what?
Yeah, why negotiate when you can find a few more old men and boys to serve as cannon fodder? What a horrible waste when the war could have been over in March of ’22.
Basically, it could have been avoided December, 2021.
Or starting in 1991 when the cold war “ended”.
You should poll the young men in the cemeteries if they would do it again given the chance to die for their country?
Do you have any idea where the healthy young men and women will come from to rebuild the nation? I tell you, they are 6 feet under and are good for nothing now, dead bodies can’t rebuild the nation.
Dude! I have no doubt those young men would do it again. We didn’t get here if it weren’t for being mind controlled to the point that we lost track of our spirit, which by the way was supposed to be peaceful and free.
Maybe, but many of them were draftees.
I agree with you, brother. The draft is good because it shows the government is forcing you to do it–that you’re not just a zombie. But we have and always had a lot of zombies. You know, like the ones on TV who brainlessly want to kill other people.
Making diplomacy illegal. Sounds like a great plan
Are you serious? We pay taxes so that these warmongering idiots can use them to isolate nations trying to mind their own business? If this doesn’t tell you who is in charge of the USG (Israel) nothing will! Israel commits genocide in Gaza and Syria is the problem?
I would think, no, he isn’t serious.
foodoo is providing a snark statement………………
We should make it illegal for the donor-class to buy the nations government and control of the wealth of the nation.
We need a real house cleaning, starting with our voting system and the electoral college and the donor-class and the funding of elections.
We first need a real soul or spiritual cleansing to reject our exceptionalism. Our exceptionalism fosters that false moral superiority to enjoy crushing other peoples’ souls and skulls. After you do dat, let’s talk.
I hear ya. If you want instant depression, just read the comment sections on Yahoo or some such place. Thank goodness for our little echo chamber.
Do away with the Electoral system and the USA goes into civil war, fast.
When the occupier uses military force with bombs, tanks and undisciplined IDF scum, denial of food, shelter, and medical care, to massacre the occupied unarmed civilians, more than 70% women and children, then it is the most cruel, inhumane genocide in human history. A normal military conflict it is not.
The occupier Israel, a Nuclear power, funded by the Nuclear superpower USA is an organization of war criminals.
All the proud Americans and Israelis should hide under the biggest stone, there is nothing to be proud of, nothing but shame is left.
Wait what?
All that but you support Putin’s invasion and annexation of Ukraine?
What a fcking hypocrite.
But we know that.
We are used to your hypocritical lectures.
🤷🏽♂️
all Putin did was to kick the Kiev rulers out of Crimea & Donbass where they had been menaced by Kiev since at least 2014. furthermore Putin drew a red-line in his sand and told uncle sam that at no time will NATO missiles be parked on Russia’s doorstep in Ukraine and to top it off Russia eliminated many bio-weapon labs that were operating in Ukraine.
but by all means you should continue to refer to all of that as “annexation of Ukraine by Russia” and i will continue to refer to you as Agent Julio.
For 8 years. 14,000 Russian speaking Ukraine CITIZENS killed, many more injured, maimed.
“For eight years, 14,000 Russian and Ukrainian speaking Ukrainian and LPR/DPR CITIZENS killed, many more injured, maimed.”
Fixed, no charge.
Russian is their primary language and they are Russian orthodox Catholics, and Kiev, after the Obama regime change denied them the right to continue to live by their culture.
The neo-Nazis refused to implement the Minsk agreements, which had settled the issue, Americans did never support the Minsk agreements. That made it clear to the Germans and French that it was not meant to be implemented. The Russians, Putin are not stupid, they could see the red flag too and the NATO military exercises in Ukraine, so they prepared for war in my opinion, and the American hubris prevented them to notice it.
I wish Tucker would have asked Putin about that.
So the Kyiv regime troops who died were all Russian speakers who were opposed to what they were doing?
And every last civilian who died was a Russian-speaking Orthodox Christian who supported the LPR/DPR secession? Not a single civilian casualty among those who didn’t?
Thomas, you do know that Zelensky was a Russian speaker, he had to learn Ukrainian. Russian speaking Ukrainians like their Russian culture and most of them wanted to keep it that way. That does not mean all of them. The people in the west and the east married and lived with each other, they had no problems, why make it a problem?
The US had no right to meddle in internal affairs in Ukraine, why did they? They are trouble and leave scorched earth behind, not only in Ukraine. The Chinese are civilized people, they don’t do that, they make friends, our officials are too stupid, they don’t get it.
Yes, I knew Zelenskyy was a Russian speaker.
I don’t pretend to know what Russian speaking Ukrainians “like.”
I agree that the US regime had no “right” to meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine.
Nor did it have any “right” to meddle in the external affairs of Ukraine, e.g. its invasion of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, which seceded in 2014.
On the other hand, neither did the Russian regime have any such “right.”
You continue to pretend that only the guys you don’t like are the bad guys. It’s all bad guys.
Thomas, the facts are there, I truly wish the USA would take care of the nation at home and leave other people alone. American politicians only know what they want and never consider that what they want is not what the people in Venezuela want. They elected Maduro and the US said no, Guido will be your president because we say so. Now, if you don’t behave we will destroy your economy, that is our right because we are exceptional, we make the laws and you obey and do as we tell you. And we are never wrong we are here to bring you freedom and democracy if you have enough to eat is not our concern. There is Cuba, Haiti, Latin America, and we have the right to get rid of Assad in Syria, we rule the world and you do as told.
Thomas get real, get off your hubris, NATIONALISM is a form of NARCISSISM. Other nations have rights too, China and Russia doing well without it. We are there to destroy them, who do we think we are, such arrogance. Ukrainians are paying dearly for having served as our proxy. Biden and the neocons did it, not Putin. Obama/Biden made the regime change, not Putin. Biden got the war he wanted, Putin did not he wanted the Minsk agreement. That is factual history you cant deny.
You’re absolutely right. Nationalism is a form of narcissism. And at the level of power, it’s a sociopathic form of narcissism.
That includes all nationalism, including the ones you oppose (US nationalism, Ukrainian nationalism, Zionism, etc.), and the ones you support (Russian nationalism, Palestinian nationalism, etc.)
Nationalism is dangerous to the lives of its citizens.
I agree with most of what you say, but not with the way you define nationalism. To be proud and loving your homeland is one thing, delusional grandeur and arrogance against others is the pathological narcissism, the I am better than you kind of sick nationalism.
What about “responsibility to protect” that we harp about before we intrude in another country?
Who’s “we?” I haven’t intruded into another country in more than 30 years, and when I did I didn’t harp about any “responsibility to protect.” I just did what I was told to do because I’d signed up to do what I was told to do and hadn’t started thinking about it very much.
If you’re talking about the US regime, yes, it also plays the “responsibility to protect” card when it does to other countries what the Russian regime is doing to Ukraine.
If there’s a difference, it’s that the US usually plays that card early enough for it to be at least a little believable to some people, instead of only playing it after it’s lost an eight-year proxy war and peace is threatening to break out.
It so happens that I don’t like bad guys because they are bad. That includes bad girls.
The Russian speaking Ukrainians said what they wanted, they wanted some autonomy which the Minsky agreements provided and Zelensky with American approval dumped. The conflict could have easily been prevented if the Biden gang had wanted to avoid it. Biden got his war and he is looking for more. Why on earth do the Biden idiots want to subsidize Taiwan? By all accounts the nation is wealthy. Does Biden want to fund a war against China using Taiwan as proxy? Don’t you notice how sick these people in government are? They are insane, we need and end to that INSANITY.
Ukraine and Russia share borders and common history, the USA shares nothing with Ukraine and Russia.
Thomas, please stick to what I posted not what you think I posted. I do know you have a reading comprehension above 4th grade level.
I have a text-reading comprehension above a 4th grade level.
I do not have a mind-reading comprehension above a 4th grade level.
Which is why I responded to what you actually wrote instead of trying to guess what you might possibly think that contradicts what you wrote.
If you said, Putin is evil and the Russians are stupid, he would have probably left you alone.
I don’t think Putin is any more evil than most politicians, nor do I think Russians in general or Putin in particular are stupid.
As I’ve made clear over and over for years now, including eight years of opposition to the coup regime in Ukraine and its attempts to suppress the Donbas secessions, and warnings that Putin’s position shouldn’t be taken lightly unless war was the goal (see this one, for example).
I’m almost certain Putin covered it during the interview.
I can’t recall, he covered a lot and without notes.
Exactly.
I wish you’re correct. Malcolm X: “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
I think I am correct, I try to be careful, as the man said. He was right.
389 to 32 … that’s about the size of it: the ratio of House members beholden to empire versus those who want to represent the actual people of these un-united states.
Kudos to the House Black and Hispanic caucuses and the four (4??) true America-First Republicans.
The ZioNazi Party, funded by AIPAC, friends, true believers, and opportunists.
AIPAC, successor to the American Zionist Council, should be forced to register as a foreign agent. The active word for the predecessor is ZIONIST. There is nothing American about it. What do the Zionists in Israel think about Americans? This is what: Scheerpost: https://scheerpost.com/2024/02/12/the-day-israel-attacked-the-usa/
Our elected officials serve the donor class, not the people who really elected them. After the elections they forget their constituents. Biden is nice to unions before elections, then it is silent in the forest.
Ask the rail workers about it…………….
Who are the bad guys now ma?
Beautiful!!!!
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https://youtu.be/I6A6mcTh1uk?si=zFpRBAHvMXEI6BWm
All the AIPAC membership voting .
Maybe it’s time to realize that our terrorists, oops, I mean our side lost in Syria. Time to get over it. Time to move on and let the Syrians start to rebuild their country, even if we don’t like their leader. Actually, it’s time to get our nose out of everybody else’s business.
Biden refused to stop the sanctions for just 3 days to rescue earthquake victims in Syria. In my eyes it takes an evil, viscous man to do that, he did it to Afghans, he imposed sanctions on the beaten nation, and he confiscated the nations foreign accounts, preventing them to purchase food. It takes an evil vindictive personality to be that mean.
Sanctions are meant to destroy national economies, economic warfare against women and children. Nothing to be proud of, and that is the kind of people governing the nation, if one can call it does. Biden is a most dispi*able old ruthless person.
Been going on since: April 1, 2012; “We think Assad must go,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told ABC Today attending the one-day Friends of the Syrian People conference in Istanbul. “The sooner the better for everyone concerned.” Clinton said the United States has agreed to pledge an additional $12 million for a total of $25 million in aid and to provide communications equipment to help the Syrian Free Army organize.
Syria war: 6 million are refugees or homeless inside their country, more than half a million lost their lives, town and cities destroyed. USA tax dollars at work.
The “Syrian People” have never met an enemy more determined on their killing and destruction than the “Friends of the Syrian People.”
FJB and obama! Remember it was obama who came out with the statement that Assad of Syria would be removed from office by America and Putin of Russia would be next.
It is obama who has been removed from office.
Now it is obama that has to hide in the shadows like Voldemort in the moves attaching himself to Joey Biden like a cancerous tumor.
I don’t recall Obama ever threatening to remove Putin from office. I also recall other presidents threatening to remove Assad. Trump even wanted to assassinate him after one of the bogus accusations that Assad used chemical weapons on his own people.
“Let’s f—ing kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the f—ing lot of them,” Trump told Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Obama was the best “moral superiority” $hitter on my face in my entire life. His wife is second. Within seconds in their speeches, I couldn’t help inhaling and tasting their “moral superiority.” Dude! I can still choke on it.
Should we normalize relationships with dictators?
Hmm 🤔
Let’s ask the antiwar.com Putin lover bloggers.
No need, we know the answer.
Dictators are good. US/West is bad.
Now. Next question; let’s ask them where they live. Oops. 🤣
Tough question.
We are governed by criminals, so, what is your point?
Yeah yeah, i know.
You are governed by Kremlin Criminals so what’s the point. I get you.
So are you from America?
Hmm, you mean you bash America daily but you love dictators?
You cannot be. That’s too hypocritical.
Don, a rational debate requires facts, which you don’t have. So you resort to ad hominem.
Every CIA regime change replaces legal, elected governments with RW criminals they can jump in bed with.
All CIA regime changes removed legal left of center governments with RW dictators.
You do know the state department is in charge of the CIA, and the budget, no one knows how much that is. Every embassy has covered CIA agents.
My late father in law and I agreed on this: the CIA is MURDER, INC.
Count me in too.
We would be lucky to have a statesman like Assad.
PRESIDENT ASSAD OF SYRIA IS NOT AN EVIL DICTATOR KILLING HIS PEOPLE- THE ESTABLISHMENT HAS LIED!
https://themarshallreport.wordpress.com/2016/09/24/president-assad-of-syria-is-not-an-evil-dictator-killing-his-people-the-establishment-has-lied/
Anyone fighting against the lawful democratically elected government of President Dr Bashar Al-Assad is a terrorist whether known as kurds, alqaeda, nusra, moderate rebels. SDF, FSA or IDF.
Biden Arming Al Qaeda
Syria – US Moves To Protect Al-Qaeda And ISIS in Daraa http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2018/may/26/syria-us-moves-to-protect-al-qaeda-and-isis-in-daraa/
ASSAD DID NOT BOMB A HOSPITAL
Damascus, SANA – A military source denied on Thursday news about the Air Force targeting a hospital in al-Sukkari neighborhood in Aleppo city.
The source affirmed that the reports about targeting the hospital circulated by some TV channels that are involved in the bloodshed in Syria are baseless and untrue.
These reports are an attempt to cover the crimes which terrorists are committing against civilians in Aleppo having already fired over 1300 shells on residential neighborhoods over the past few days, the source said.
Dozens of people have been killed and many others have been injured as the attacks continue against the city’s locals.
M. al-Frieh/H. Said
http://sana.sy/en/?p=75910
Hero President Bashar Al-Assad Telling Why America HATES Him
Sott.net Interview with Father Daniel in Syria: “There Never Was a Popular Uprising in Syria”
https://www.sott.net/article/354637-Sott-net-Interview-with-Father-Daniel-in-Syria-There-Never-Was-a-Popular-Uprising-in-Syria
Report: Israel treating al-Qaida fighters wounded in Syria civil war
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/report-israel-treating-al-qaida-fighters-wounded-in-syria-civil-war-393862
DEBUNKING 10 LIES ABOUT SYRIA AND ASSAD
https://worldaffairs.blog/2018/04/21/debunking-10-lies-about-syria-and-assad/
Syrians support Assad, but BBC won’t report it, British baroness tells RT after fact-finding trip
https://www.rt.com/uk/424930-syrians-support-assad-bbc/
Nerve agents not found in samples from Syria’s Douma – interim OPCW report
https://www.rt.com/news/431994-nerve-agents-not-found-douma/
Syrian rebels used Sarin nerve gas, not Assad’s regime: U.N. official
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/syrian-rebels-used-sarin-nerve-gas-not-assads-regi/
SYRIAN WAR FOR DUMMIES – THREE VERSIONS
https://worldaffairs.blog/2018/03/17/syrian-war-for-dummies-three-versions/
US-NATO Supports ISIS
https://www.globalresearch.ca/creative-chaos-and-the-war-against-humanity-us-nato-supports-isis/5592499
“We are buying weapons from FSA , We have good relations with our brothers in the FSA” – ISIS member & governor of Allepo, Abu Atheer
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/07/free_syrian_army_arming_al_qae.php
We’re training isil
SYRIA WHITE HELMETS HAND IN HAND WITH AL QAEDA
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=OBkn78q_t_Q
NATO Terrorists Massacre 80, Injure 240 at Graduation Ceremony
https://syrianews.cc/nato-terrorists-massacre-80-injure-240-at-graduation-ceremony/
The only reason for this Stupid Caesar Act and the ridiculous House bill from US RetardiQAns and DemonRats is to benefit Israel including the illegal occupation of northeast Syria…!
WTF am i even doing here – this is an antiwar blog and i have absolutely no idea how to facilitate “antiwar” – i guess i can yell at other dudes here online or better yet go out on the streets and wave an antiwar sign. “hooray for antiwar!”
right? right.
maybe i could at least feel a tiny bit of accomplishment.
“weee! look at me, i am against war!”
edit) = “weee!”
Our lives are wasted. Mind control is powerful. Find me more idiotic people who would vote for less health care and more war than us? Dude! We vote for more government spying and control on us! If you tell people you’re antiwar, then you’re “Putin’s Useful Idiot.”
Tis frustrating.
Arab countries going to give youknowwho the middle finger?
What has Syria done to the US to incur its wrath ? Where does this hatred of Syria, a wondrful and ancient country, come from? Why not let the Syrians decide what kind of coutnry they want?
Across all social and religious lines, President al-Assad has always had high approval ratings, which western leaders can only dream about..
Note from the world: Dear Congress, mind your own business.