Syria’s state-run media earlier reported that 200 troops had been flown toUS bases in al-Shaddadi on 21 January for future deployment at Omar oilfield and Koniko gas field in neighbouring Deir ez-Zor province. It wasalso reported that the US-led military coalition had dispatched 40truckloads of weapons and logistical equipment to Hasakah.
The United States is plundering Syria’s natural resources to send them toother places that will benefit from American theft, claimed J. MichaelSpringmann, a former US diplomat in Saudi Arabia.
Syria’s state-run media earlier reported that 200 troops had been flown toUS bases in al-Shaddadi on 21 January for future deployment at Omar oilfield and Koniko gas field in neighbouring Deir ez-Zor province. It wasalso reported that the US-led military coalition had dispatched 40truckloads of weapons and logistical equipment to Hasakah.
The United States (US) is plundering Syria’s natural resources to send themto favour other places from American theft, claimed J. Michael Springmann,a former US diplomat in Saudi Arabia.
Syria’s state-run television network reported earlier that 200 troops wereflown to American bases in the town of al-Shaddadi onboard helicopters on21 January.
The town lies some 60 kilometres south of the provincial capital Hasakah,where the US-led military coalition had dispatched 40 truckloads of weaponsand logistical equipment, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA),the Syrian government’s official media outlet.
According to the reports, the forces are to be subsequently stationed atOmar oil field and Koniko gas field in neighbouring Deir ez-Zor province,as part of Washington’s ongoing moves aimed at wresting further controlover oil reserves in Syria.
The writer lambasted what he described as the US ‘wrong-headed approach toforeign policy.
Emphasising that these moves by Washington served to illustrate yet again‘what is wrong with America’. The US military stationed forces andequipment in northeastern Syria, with the Pentagon claiming that the troopsdeployment was a measure required to safeguard the oilfields in the area tokeep them from falling into the hands of Daesh terrorists.
In October 2019 then-President Donald Trump stated the US will be “keepingthe oil” in northeastern Syria.
At the time, Defense Secretary Mark Esper confirmed US troops would remainin the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor “to secure the oil fields”against Daesh.
However, it was also implied that the Syrian Democratic Forces, themajority-Kurdish forces that fought with the US against Daesh*, wouldcontinue to extract profit off the oil produced in the area.
The US is “depriving the Syrian state and Syrian people of the basicrevenues necessary to improve the humanitarian situation, provide forlivelihood needs and reconstruction,” he added.
Politico reported in early August 2020 that the American company DeltaCrescent Energy LLC, in an apparent attempt to “legitimise” what appears tobe the outright theft of the Syrian nation’s oil, inked a secret deal withKurdish authorities in northeastern Syria to develop and export theregion’s crude oil.
The deal, which was announced by Republican US Senator Lindsay Graham on 2August 2020, who explained that it involved modernisation of the oil wellsin northeastern Syria, was denounced as null and void by Damascus.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Abbas Mousavi denounced the dealbetween an American company and the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forcesmilitia group as “illegal” and a violation of Syrian sovereignty.
Prior to the devastating US-backed civil war, which broke out in 2011 onthe wave of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ protests throughout the MiddleEast, Syria produced around 380,000 barrels of oil per day. – Sputnik