U.S. Cements Itself Into Another Middle East Country With 'Indefinite' Occupation of Syria

The Middle East is being reshaped through war and destruction, and the U.S. leads the charge. What started in the Gulf War of the 1990s, was pushed further in 2001 after the September 11 attack. The establishment wants to convince everyone this is about freedom, but it's about conquest, resources, money, power, control and remaking the world to favor the U.S. and the future one world government.

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First Afghanistan, then Iraq and Libya, and now Syria, the U.S. has essentially invaded the Middle East to force a change in the region. The people there don't want the American brand of freedom by gunshots and bombs. I don't think any of us would want that. Residents, like one in U.S.-ontrolled Raqqa, say "we don't want the Americans. It's occupation". But the people don't get to decide anything in this world. The U.S. has announced it would definitely stay in Syria and control 1/3 of the country, reports the Washington Post.

Syria has become part of the planned "Forever Wars" in the Middle East which fuels the military-industrial complex. The longer these wars last, the better for those who reap the profits from the war mongering on other people. Stars and Stripes reports some mainstream facts of the situation:

That decision puts U.S. troops in overall control, perhaps indefinitely, of an area comprising nearly a third of Syria, a vast expanse of mostly desert terrain roughly the size of Louisiana.

The Pentagon does not say how many troops are there. Officially, they number 503, but earlier this year an official let slip that the true number may be closer to 4,000.

This push to stay "until the war's close" (whenever that is) has been made without public debate. No Congressional vote has been tallied to support the war, which is how things are supposed to go. So much for checks and balances. None of these wars are legal by international standards, and not even by America's own legal system. They only carry a fantasy aura of being legal. The mainstream media helps to carry that illusion forward for the masses of Americans to accept.

Stars and Stripes continues to lay out the conflicts to be faced as a new war is ignited:

The new mission raises new questions, about the role they will play and whether their presence will risk becoming a magnet for regional conflict and insurgency.

The area is surrounded by powers hostile both to the U.S. presence and the aspirations of the Kurds, who are governing the majority-Arab area in pursuit of a leftist ideology formulated by an imprisoned Turkish Kurdish leader. Signs that the Islamic State is starting to regroup and rumblings of discontent within the Arab community point to the threat of an insurgency.

Without the presence of U.S. troops, these dangers would almost certainly ignite a new war right away, said Ilham Ahmed, a senior official with the Self-Administration of North and East Syria, as the self-styled government of the area is called.

"They have to stay. If they leave and there isn't a solution for Syria, it will be catastrophic," she said.

But staying also heralds risk, and already the challenges are starting to mount.

No mention of how the U.S. helped to destabilize the area to this point, as the falsely justified attempts to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The media mushed the image of an evil leader to justify bombs and support of rebels terrorists.

The U.S. is on it's way to achieving the desired outcome: taking over Syria. The New Yorker reports:

The United States has built a dozen or more bases from Manbij to Al-Hasakah, including four airfields, and American-backed forces now control all of Syria east of the Euphrates, an area about the size of Croatia."

Check out the map showing the U.S.-backed Kurdish groups control of Syria:

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This is also to fight-by-proxy against Iran and Russia who is helping Assad, which may be the next target for war in the future. They've been trying to go after Iran for 20 years. Stars and Stripes basically admits the plan to fight against Assad and Iran:

Syrian government troops and Iranian proxy fighters are to the south and west. They have threatened to take the area back by force, in pursuit of President Bashar Assad's pledge to bring all of Syria under government control.

Another insurgency against the unwanted U.S. troops is mounting:

The anger on the streets is palpable. Some residents are openly hostile to foreign visitors, which is rare in other towns and cities freed from Islamic State control in Syria and Iraq. Even those who support the presence of the U.S. military and the SDF say they are resentful that the United States and its partners in the anti-ISIS coalition that bombed the city aren't helping to rebuild.

And many appear not to support their new rulers.

"We don't want the Americans. It's occupation," said one man, a tailor, who didn't want to give his name because he feared the consequences of speaking his mind. "I don't know why they had to use such a huge number of weapons and destroy the city. Yes, ISIS was here, but we paid the price. They have a responsibility."

But the Pentagon doesn't care. It's all about money. Soldiers and just pawns in a larger geo-political game. The power players and money makers reap the profits. It's another endless conflict in another part of the Middle East. Anywhere Iran goes to help, the U.S. will counter. Eventually the Middle East will just be vassal-states that are proxies of U.S. imperialism.

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References:

• US Commits To "Indefinite" Occupation Of Syria; Controls Region The Size Of Croatia
• America’s hidden war in Syria
• Is the Trump Administration Pivoting the Fight in Syria Toward a War with Iran?

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