Having sent growing numbers of troops into eastern Syria explicitly to control the oil, President Trump now says he is seeking a deal with Exxon Mobil or “one of our great companies” to go into occupied Syria and take the oil.
Trump has long suggested that in his view, the US should be able to just take oil from countries it is involved in militarily, as a way to recover some of the costs of his various wars. Trump said on Sunday that the oil is valuable and “we should be able to take some also.”
That Trump is sold on this idea is one thing, but convincing a US Oil and Gas Major to go along with the operation is another thing. The legal basis, particularly internationally, of taking Syrian oil without Syrian permission, and keeping US military forces there to keep Syria from stopping them, is going to be complicated, to say the least.
Trump’s conviction that legally it’s probably fine, after all, doesn’t mean the US company, whichever it turns out to be, wouldn’t get sued in the US or internationally for looting Syria’s oil.
These huge multinational companies are notoriously risk-averse about conflict, and would likely be so about joining the president in an oil-taking scheme of this sort. That means while Trump continues to war to keep the oil, he’s going to face a big job selling the idea to any company.
And how exactly are “WE” compensated for the invasion, murder and theft of those folks’ resources, as WE are the ones who PAID for it with $, blood and a myriad of crimes having been committed against US to justify it?
THEY line THEIR pockets with the profits from the stolen resources and WE are compensated NOTHING!!!
Oh, I am tired of “winning” alright, as much as I am tired of the idiots who prop up this zionist POS chump.
Bwahahahahahahahahah! Just like the British East India Company sent all those “troops” to India, China, the Caribbean, etc. for the sole purpose of stealing India-China-Caribbean-etc. resources under the guise of stopping rebellions,and, oh yeah, “pirates of the Caribbean”…just like the French Foreign Legion sent “troops” to Morocco, Algeria, etc for the same reason….now let’s see, were these “legionaires” and EIC “soldiers” actually armies of Britain or France…or mercenaries who need to be paid a boatload of loot in order to “serve their countries”…and how much if Big Oil going to pay Erik Prince and co’s minions to merc these Syrian oil fields that BTW are right next door to either Turkish or Russian or maybe Iranian actual troops either welcomed by Syria or allowed for whatever reason (Turks vs. Kurds, whatever)….like I said, Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!