"The more than 1,200 US troops illegally occupying eastern Syria are not coming home anytime soon. They are acting as the security guards of the newest American ‘state-owned’ oil company. The US has always billed itself as a Capitalist nation, and the current US administration has used the word, Socialist as if it was the plague; however, the Trump government is now operating as a Socialist regime, with ‘state-owned’ companies generating revenue, and the US soldiers working as security guards. The Pentagon lawyers are busy trying to find a legal footing to defend the US position of stealing Syrian oil and selling it to Turkey. Trump has said multiple times that the US is “keeping the oil”, but has never explained how that could be justified under international law.
“Risking the lives of our troops to guard oil rigs in eastern Syria is not only reckless, it’s not legally authorized,” Senator Tim Kaine, of Virginia, told the AP. “President Trump betrayed our Kurdish allies that have fought alongside American soldiers in the fight to secure a future without ISIS — and instead moved our troops to protect oil rigs.”
The Saudi Arabian Oil Company, ARAMCO, arrived on December 13 in Deir Ez Zor from northern Iraq, with a delegation of petroleum engineers, who arrived by US helicopters, along with Saudi soldiers, who will act as bodyguards for the experts, and accompanied by about 30 trucks carrying essential petroleum extraction equipment.
The Al Omar oilfield, located east of Deir Ez Zor, is one of the main oil and gas fields in Syria. The ARAMCO mission is to repair, increase production, and train production crews while working under contract with the US government."
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