© AnadoluThe mess of war.
The US administration is designing a new strategy of actions in Syria that would envisage the possibility of imposing sanctions on Russian and Iranian companies engaged in the reconstruction of Syria after the civil war, the NBC News broadcaster reported, citing sources with knowledge of the situation.
The strategy would not provide for direct clashes with the forces controlled by the Iranian government, as the
US military has a right to attack the Iranian troops only in case of self-defense, the NBC News broadcaster reported on Tuesday.
Instead, the strategy reportedly
focuses on political and diplomatic efforts toward forcing Iranian armed forces out of Syria, namely, via putting financial pressure on them. Three people with knowledge of the plan told NBC News that the
United States was set to hinder Syria's reconstruction by withdrawing its aid from the areas where the Russian and the Iranian forces are present, and also introducing sanctions against the Russian and the Iranian companies engaged in the reconstruction.
The United States is seeking Iranian forces withdrawal from Syria, insisting that their presence in the country reduces the possibility of achieving a political settlement to the crisis and hinders the struggle against the Daesh terror group. In late September, James Jeffrey, the US State Department's special representative for Syria engagement, pledged that the United States would maintain its presence in the country to defeat Daesh, expelling the Iranian forces and achieving a peaceful settlement.
While Russia and Iran, along with Turkey, are the guarantors of the ceasefire in Syria, they are also assisting in the
reconstruction of the country's cities and infrastructure, largely destroyed in over seven years of clashes between the Syrian government, opposition and militant groups.
Comment: Just plain crazy! Perhaps the US would like to carry the whole burden of Syrian reconstruction itself - not that it would do it justice, given US track record in reconstituting Iraq for example. The faux business of war: create a bogey, sell lots of expensive military equipment, ruin someone's country and then profit through the guise of contribution and restoration, along with dictates and mandates for the state and forever occupation by the military. What a horrid waste of energy, resources and devastation perpetrated on whole populations to appease this unending feeding machine.
Anyway, sort of busts the myth of the great humanitarian concerns, of which the US uses to bomb countless humans.