{"id":49116,"date":"2019-10-23T16:35:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T21:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49116"},"modified":"2019-10-23T16:35:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T21:35:30","slug":"its-official-trump-says-us-keeping-syrias-oil-secured-by-small-number-of-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49116","title":{"rendered":"It’s Official: Trump Says US Keeping Syria’s Oil, Secured By “Small Number” Of Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s Official: Trump Says US Keeping Syria’s Oil, Secured By “Small Number” Of Troops<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Now we’re getting out… let someone else fight over this long bloodstained sand,” President Trump said during a major, unannounced speech from the White House<\/a> declaring America’s “big success” in Syria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we predicted<\/a>, he confirmed the US is “getting out” but it’s not quite the reality, because he also confirmed a “small number” of American troops will stay in Syria to protect oil in the region<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We have secured the oil and, therefore, a small number of U.S. Troops will remain in the area where they have the oil,” Trump said<\/a>. “And we’re going to be protecting it, and we’ll be deciding what we’re going to do with it in the future<\/strong>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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But of course, this oil belongs to the Syrian state and its\u00a0people, as even\u00a0former\u00a0top White House Syria and Iraq\u00a0envoy Brett McGurk,\u00a0stated bluntly this week<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cOil, like it or not, is owned by the Syrian state.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump also acknowledged during the Wednesday televised address, in a rare reference to past White House policy, that Obama embarked on a failed “regime change” bid in Syria<\/strong>, which morphed into a nightmarish war taking 500,000 lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, even amid a US troop pullback in the north, American special forces and Kurdish-led SDF forces\u00a0remain in control of the key oil and gas infrastructure in the Deir Ezzor region<\/strong>, east of the Euphrates. The major oil and gas fields in the eastern region\u00a0such as\u00a0al-Omar, Conoco field, and\u00a0Rumeilan oil field, remain\u00a0Syria’s only significant domestic energy access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s Official: Trump Says US Keeping Syria’s Oil, Secured By “Small Number” Of Troops “Now we’re getting out… let someone else fight over this long bloodstained sand,” President Trump said during a major, unannounced speech from the White House declaring America’s “big success” in Syria.  As we predicted, he confirmed the US is “getting out” but it’s not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[588,776],"class_list":["post-49116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-oil","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49117,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116\/revisions\/49117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}