{"id":49385,"date":"2019-11-03T06:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T11:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49385"},"modified":"2019-11-03T06:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T11:16:51","slug":"us-needs-to-occupy-syria-because-of-kurds-or-iran-or-chemical-weapons-or-oil-or-whatever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49385","title":{"rendered":"US Needs To Occupy Syria Because Of Kurds Or Iran Or Chemical Weapons Or Oil Or Whatever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/11\/03\/us-needs-to-occupy-syria-because-of-kurds-or-iran-or-chemical-weapons-or-oil-or-whatever\/\">US Needs To Occupy Syria Because Of Kurds Or Iran Or Chemical Weapons Or Oil Or\u00a0Whatever<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-03-at-12.58.41-PM.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ruptly\/status\/1190650286018355203\">reiterated to the press<\/a>&nbsp;today that the United States is maintaining its military presence in Syria not to patrol the nation\u2019s border with Turkey, but to control its oil fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve kept the oil,\u201d Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/world\/201911021077207222--i-like-oil-were-keeping-the-oil-trump-confirms-us-wants-syrias-oil-not-to-patrol-its-borders\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve stayed back and kept the oil. Other people can patrol the border of Syria, frankly, and Turkey, let them \u2013 they\u2019ve been fighting for a thousand years, let them do the border, we don\u2019t want to do that. We want to bring our soldiers home. But we did leave soldiers because we\u2019re keeping the oil. I like oil. We\u2019re keeping the oil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This open \u201ckick their ass and take their gas\u201d policy is nothing new for America\u2019s reality TV president; he\u2019s been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBassem7\/status\/1190671161828372480?s=20\">saying it for years<\/a>. It was recently addressed head-on by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1190270794716319745?s=20\">said during an interview<\/a>&nbsp;that it\u2019s nice to have a US president who is honest about America\u2019s true motives in the Middle East for once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs for Trump, you might ask me a question and I give you an answer that might sound strange,\u201d Assad\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=177331\">said<\/a>. \u201cI say that he is the best American President, not because his policies are good, but because he is the most transparent president. \u00a0All American presidents perpetrate all kinds of political atrocities and all crimes and yet still win the Nobel Prize and project themselves as defenders of human rights and noble and unique American values, or Western values in general. \u00a0The reality is that they are a group of criminals who represent the interests of American lobbies, i.e. the large oil and arms companies, and others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Needs To Occupy Syria Because Of Kurds Or Iran Or Chemical Weapons Or Oil Or\u00a0Whatever President Trump&nbsp;reiterated to the press&nbsp;today that the United States is maintaining its military presence in Syria not to patrol the nation\u2019s border with Turkey, but to control its oil fields. \u201cWe\u2019ve kept the oil,\u201d Trump&nbsp;said. \u201cWe\u2019ve stayed back and [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,5],"tags":[17039,588,827],"class_list":["post-49385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-oil","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49385","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=49385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49386,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49385\/revisions\/49386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}