Posted on 03/30/2018 6:06:10 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
There are a lot of good arguments for maintaining an American presence in Syria after the fall of the Islamic State, but President Trump doesn’t seem persuaded by any of them. Perhaps he would back off his urge to cut and run if he knew that the United States and its partners control almost all of the oil. And if the United States leaves, that oil will likely fall into the hands of Iran.
It’s one feature of a larger U.S. mission in Syria that is really about containing Iranian expansionism, preventing a new refugee crisis, fighting extremism and stopping Russia from exerting influence over the region. The United States has serious national security interests in making sure that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran don’t push America out of Syria and declare total victory.
But Trump has repeatedly said those tasks are not the United States’ responsibility. He promised to pull the approximately 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria at a campaign rally on Thursday in Ohio.
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Iran has huge oil reserves. Syria does not. Rogin is NeoCon/Deep State trash.
There's no oil & moderate amounts of natural gas. Syria was a net importer of energy in 2015, the last year the CIA measured.
The reasons Russia is involved are many, but grabbing up energy resources isn't one of them.
“There’s enough to cause trouble and fund a lot of terrorism, but Syria’s geographical location for oil and gas transport to Southern Europe is critical and that is what it is all about.”
And Lebensraum.
“Rogin is NeoCon/Deep State trash.”
I wonder what his moniker is here on Freerepublic.
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