President Donald Trump has consistently argued in favor of ending Middle East wars, while holding on to foreign oil assets— feeding into longstanding criticism about the intention of U.S. intervention.
President Donald Trump's plan to maintain a military presence at Syria's oil fields bears little resemblance to the United States' stated mission in the country and instead resembles much of what critics have long accused Washington of doing in the Middle East—invading and occupying for control of natural resources.
"The United States stands in the world as the main defender of international law and so-called rules, but U.S. presence in Syria is against any rules, against any international law and norms," added Buzhinskiy, who is also a retired Russian lieutenant-general and serves as vice president of the Russian International Affairs Council.
Robert Ford, the last U.S. ambassador to Syria before ties were suspended in 2011, has long tried to counter what he called a"conspiracy theory" that Washington's involvement in the Middle East was mostly motivated by oil.
"I say that he is the best American president, not because his policies are good, but because he is the most transparent," Assad told state-run television two weeks ago."Each American president perpetrates all kinds of political atrocities and crimes and yet they still win the Nobel Prize and project themselves as defenders of human rights and noble and unique American values, or Western values in general.
Asked Wednesday if it was true that the Syrian Democratic Forces were selling to the Syrian government, Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters:"I'm not sure how the oil market works in Syria, so we'd have to come back to you on that one.", U.S. Central Command said only that"U.S. forces are in Deir Ez-Zor to prevent ISIS from regaining control of key oil fields which at one point, provided ISIS an average of $1.
What followed has been a new bout of unrest threatening to bring the two to the brink of war in the Persian Gulf region as the U.S. charges Iran with sabotaging oil tankers and of attacking Saudi oil facilities near the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil chokepoint.
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