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U.S Troops Loot Syrian Oil and Wheat Continuously (www.telesurenglish.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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US occupying forces in northern Syria are continuing to plunder natural resources and farmland, a practice ongoing since 2011
Recently, US troops smuggled dozens of tanker trucks loaded with Syrian crude oil to their bases in Iraq.
The fuel and convoys of Syrian wheat were transported through the illegal settlement of Mahmoudia.
Witnesses report a caravan of 69 tankers loaded with oil and 45 with wheat stolen from silos in Yarubieh city.
Similar acts of looting occurred on the 19th of the month in the city of Hasakeh, where 45 tankers of Syrian oil were taken out by US forces.
Prior to the war and US invasion, Syria produced over 380 thousand barrels of crude oil per day, but this has drastically reduced to only 15 thousand barrels per day.
The country’s oil production now covers only five percent of its needs, with the remaining 95 percent imported amidst difficulties due to the US blockade.
The US and EU blockade prevents the entry of medicines, food, supplies, and impedes technological and industrial development in Syria.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Look, this article runs every few months from the Syrian regime. To be blunt, the trucks bring in Wheat and probably arms or something else they shouldn't. The SDF (formerly called the YPJ and YPG) runs oil refineries and sells the oil as a means of finding themselves. The US... Well, 'Coalition' supplies them with the refineries.

Why all these steps? Turkyie hates the YPJ/YPG but Turkyie is part of the Coalition against ISIL. The 'SDF' gets bombed by Turkyie but the SDF also runs the largest ISIL prison in the region. So Turkyie and Syria don't team up against the SDF, the SDF doesn't get full US support, and resupply trucks have to 'sneak'.

Everyone in the region has stakes in not letting them break out. Iraq doesn't want it, Syria doesn't want it, the US and Coalition don't want it but, outside of the US, no one can publicly back the SDF and save face with their regional counterparts. The US makes sure the SDF has food and funds, everyone gets to keep the ISIL and Refugee camps 'running' and no one has to support the SDF and lose face with their local parties.

I'd call it shades of gray but it's more like shades of blood...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

There have been many videos posted before that clearly show oil-carrying trucks

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