It's Official: Trump Says US Keeping Syria's Oil, Secured By "Small Number" Of Troops
Oct 24, 2019 08:13:07 #
In case you didn't read the headlines, we're leaving Syria, but we'll decide what to do with their oil.
"We have secured the oil and, therefore, a small number of U.S. Troops will remain in the area where they have the oil," Trump said. "And we're going to be protecting it, and we'll be deciding what we're going to do with it in the future." https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/its-official-trump-says-us-keeping-syrias-oil-secured-small-number-troops
But of course, this oil belongs to the Syrian state and its people, as even former top White House Syria and Iraq envoy Brett McGurk, stated bluntly this week: “Oil, like it or not, is owned by the Syrian state.”
"We have secured the oil and, therefore, a small number of U.S. Troops will remain in the area where they have the oil," Trump said. "And we're going to be protecting it, and we'll be deciding what we're going to do with it in the future." https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/its-official-trump-says-us-keeping-syrias-oil-secured-small-number-troops
But of course, this oil belongs to the Syrian state and its people, as even former top White House Syria and Iraq envoy Brett McGurk, stated bluntly this week: “Oil, like it or not, is owned by the Syrian state.”
Oct 24, 2019 08:53:25 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
ACP45 wrote:
In case you didn't read the headlines, we're leavi... (show quote)
Since when has legal ownership bothered a super power?
Oct 24, 2019 09:14:03 #
lpnmajor wrote:
Since when has legal ownership bothered a super power?
Possession is 9/10s, right?
Oct 24, 2019 09:14:09 #
lpnmajor wrote:
Since when has legal ownership bothered a super power?
Good point!
Oct 24, 2019 09:14:55 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Possession is 9/10s, right?
As long as it is the USA that's doing the possessing I suppose!
Oct 24, 2019 09:23:14 #
ACP45 wrote:
As long as it is the USA that's doing the possessing I suppose!
Nope...
Applies to plenty of other nations...
China's man-made islands in the South China sea...
Taiwan...
Kashmir...
Israel...
If you can hold it it's yours...
Oct 24, 2019 09:31:19 #
Peewee
Loc: San Antonio, TX
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Nope...
Applies to plenty of other nations...
China's man-made islands in the South China sea...
Taiwan...
Kashmir...
Israel...
If you can hold it it's yours...
Applies to plenty of other nations...
China's man-made islands in the South China sea...
Taiwan...
Kashmir...
Israel...
If you can hold it it's yours...
It could be a way to rec**p our cost or a barganing chip down the road. There are two possible pipeline routes that started the whole mess in Syria. It's almost always about money or greed.
Oct 24, 2019 09:32:39 #
Peewee wrote:
It could be a way to rec**p our cost or a barganing chip down the road. There are two possible pipeline routes that started the whole mess in Syria. It's almost always about money or greed.
Yep...
Would be a shame to have fought for nothing
Oct 24, 2019 09:49:30 #
padremike
Loc: Phenix City, Al
ACP45 wrote:
In case you didn't read the headlines, we're leavi... (show quote)
Did I not hear this was done to keep Iran away from the oil giving them cash to further finance terrorism?
Oct 24, 2019 09:52:11 #
With the Turks controlling a twenty mile swath to the north, Assad and his patron Russia controlling the remainder of the country and our abrupt withdrawal how long will we hang on to that oil?
Oct 24, 2019 10:19:16 #
padremike wrote:
Did I not hear this was done to keep Iran away from the oil giving them cash to further finance terrorism?
Why not allow Turkey to protect the oil?
Or Assad?
Oct 24, 2019 10:26:17 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
free believer wrote:
With the Turks controlling a twenty mile swath to the north, Assad and his patron Russia controlling the remainder of the country and our abrupt withdrawal how long will we hang on to that oil?
As long as we have the will to do so. Turkey (like it or not) is a NATO member and Russia wants no part of a shooting war with us. Their economy sucks and they are no match and they know it. If we had a president like that pussy Obama he would have given the Muslim brotherhood the oil as a gift.
Oct 24, 2019 10:28:52 #
JFlorio wrote:
As long as we have the will to do so. Turkey (like it or not) is a NATO member and Russia wants no part of a shooting war with us. Their economy sucks and they are no match and they know it. If we had a president like that pussy Obama he would have given the Muslim brotherhood the oil as a gift.
Thought Obama was the one who got y'all involved in Syria in the first place
Oct 24, 2019 10:30:56 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Thought Obama was the one who got y'all involved in Syria in the first place
Supporting that ridiculous Arab Spring was the most disastrous move our govt. has made since Vietnam. He got us involved, but did nothing to stop the spread of radicalism. Remember red line in the sand?
Oct 24, 2019 10:37:03 #
padremike
Loc: Phenix City, Al
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Why not allow Turkey to protect the oil?
Or Assad?
Or Assad?
Don't know not included in my pay grade. The more I "think" about it (smell the smoke) it may have been Saudi oil being protected from Iran and not Syria.
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