Comment: Show me da money!

It's so refreshing to see the US come out as the global Mafia don it always was...


syrian oil workers
© AP Photo / Hussein Malla
The United States moved to "secure" the oil-rich regions of eastern Syria in October, sparking harsh condemnation from Damascus, and concerns from the international community that US actions were a violation of international laws against pillaging.

President Donald Trump doubled down on his administration's policy of "taking" Syria's oil, telling Fox's Laura Ingraham that the US has it and refusing to give a commitment to hand it back to its rightful owners, the Syrian government.

"They say 'he left troops in Syria. You know what I did? I left troops to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil. They're protecting the oil," Trump said, speaking to the Fox News host.


Ingraham interjected, telling the president "We're not taking the oil" and suggesting the US troops were "protecting the facilities."

Trump doubled down on his words: "Maybe we will, maybe we won't...I don't know, maybe we should take it. But we have the oil, the United States has the oil. So they say 'he left troops in Syria'. No. I got rid of all of them other than we're protecting the oil, we have the oil."

'We're Keeping the Oil'

President Trump has repeatedly boasted about the importance of "securing" Syria's energy resources in recent months, saying he "liked oil," and the US would be "keeping the oil." Trump's obsession with keeping foreign countries' oil goes back to well before his presidency, and he has repeatedly appeared in the media over the past decade talking about the importance of keeping oil, including Iraqi oil.


In late October, the Russian military released a detailed report on US oil-smuggling activities in eastern Syria, complete with satellite intelligence, revealing that the CIA, the Pentagon and private US military contractors were working with Kurdish militias and US-controlled companies to illegally ship over $30 million-worth of Syrian oil out of the war-torn country.

The US moved to seize the oil rich regions in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor in October, after the US began redeploying troops away from the Syrian border with Turkey amid an abortive Turkish invasion which was halted following diplomatic intervention from Moscow.