Donald Trump’s comments insisting that the United States should “not get involved” in Syria are very stupid. The US is already extremely “involved”:
1) US soldiers are illegally militarily occupying Syria’s oil-rich eastern territory. Trump himself boasted that, in his first term, he left US troops there to steal Syria’s oil — thereby denying the Syrian government the revenue it desperately needed to rebuild after a decade of US-fueled war.
2) The US and EU have been crushing Syria for years with illegal sanctions. The UN’s top expert on unilateral coercive measures, Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan, wrote that these sanctions are “outrageous”, are “suffocating” millions of Syrian civilians, and “may amount to crimes against humanity”.
These Western sanctions, along with the US theft of Syria’s oil revenue, have denied the country access to foreign currency, thereby causing high levels of inflation and shortages of food, fuel, and other crucial imports. This US-sponsored economic collapse is causing the Syrian state itself to collapse (and Al Qa*da-linked extremists are benefiting).
3) The US already spent billions of dollars over years arming and training “rebels” in Syria, many of whom then promptly joined Al Qa*da and IS*S. This was called Operation Timber Sycamore, and it was the largest CIA covert operation since Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan in the 1980s, which gave birth to Al Qa*da and the Tal*ban.
Of the many foreign powers that have intervened in Syria, the US empire is by far the most responsible for the chaos in the country.
Trump wants to act like he had nothing to do with it, but he was just as complicit as Obama and Biden.
Now, a rebranded Al Qa*da de*th squad, calling itself HTS, which was empowered by the US dirty war, is close to taking power. If it does seize Damascus, and unleashes te*ror upon the Syrian people (and their neighbors), it is the US empire that is responsible.
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