They keep calling it "reconstruction." I call it what it is: a receipt.
A Syrian woman writes to us this week about what's left after thirteen and a half years of dirty war — oil fields that once belonged to a state now belong to an American ambassador, a pipeline America itself bombed now reopening for America's profit, uranium stockpiles handed to Turkey truck by truck, garbage rotting in the streets because there's no fuel for anything but HTS convoys.. This is the "victory" they sold you.
And don't come to me with the fairy tale that Syria's "allies" were any better. Russia and Iran, sitting on more gas and oil than half the planet, dripped aid to Damascus in teaspoons — while pumping discounted Iranian gas straight into Turkey's pipelines with ever increasing discounts and building Erdogan a nuclear plant on Russia's own long-term dime. Meanwhile Erdogan spends his days poking Moscow everywhere from the Turkic republics to Ukraine, and helping Israel do its damage to the Slavic and Orthodox world. Some alliance.
Read the whole account — "Syria's Oil Wealth Flows to America While Syrians Bleed for It" — on Syria News: Syria's Oil Wealth Flows to America While Syrians Bleed for It.
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