Deir Ezzor is a Sign of Things to Come

The billowing wheat fields of Syria once were a staple that kept the people sated through times of struggle. Until the beginning of the war, Syria was a net food exporter, providing grain to neighboring countries and enjoying a healthy supply more than sufficient to feed its population. When the attempted overthrow of Bashar al-Assad began in 2011, the nation collapsed into chaos and food production plummeted. Syria’s borders shrank to a third of their pre-war size as ISIS took over huge swathes of desert, and US-backed Kurdish forces invaded the country’s northeast under the cover of fighting terrorism.

Syria’s occupied northeast produces 60% of the country’s wheat and 95% of the country’s oil: 400,000 barrels per day of oil production has been lost due to the Kurdish invasion. The formerly oil-rich nation now pumps a mere 20,000 bpd and relies on Iranian tankers to import energy. These tankers are increasingly intercepted by Western powers as part of this war of starvation. Additionally, in the last two years five separate sanctions bills have been passed in Washington, targeting the country’s oil and grain trade.

This is nothing new. Just recall what US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said when confronted with the fact that over half a million Iraqi children had died of starvation due to sanctions:

We think the price is worth it

Any price is “worth it” because Iraq, Syria, and Iran have been targeted for destruction for decades, part of the Empire’s longstanding plan to conquer all of Central Asia. We see the antecedents of such a foreign policy in the Wolfowitz Doctrine, the “Clean Break” white paper, and General Wesley Clark’s confession that these nations were slated for regime change well before whichever casus belli that prompted American intervention was manufactured. In addition to the territorial agenda, control of the planet’s oil resources upholds the phenomenon of petrodollar recycling, defending the dollar’s status as world reserve currency.

Accordingly, the Empire has no plans to leave northeast Syria. While the media spun up a narrative about Trump “abandoning the Kurds,” nothing could be further from the truth. The Trump administration gave drilling approval in the region to a little known oil company called Delta Crescent Energy LLC. One of the partners at this firm named James Reese is an ex Delta Force agent who served as a commander and operations officer in the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Other partners include international oil executives and diplomats. These players will collaborate with the Kurds to pump oil through Syria and Iraq while fulfilling Washington’s agenda of denying the Syrian civilization the resources needed for survival.

So while imperial and resistance forces patrol either side of the Euphrates, we can see the new front in the northeast as a microcosm of what will come as a hawkish administration takes the helm in Washington.

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The IDF Hermes 450 that violated Lebanon's airspace today.

Photo taken by: @AlihHamadeh

🇨🇭 Statement by Swiss MP Fabian Molina (Socialist Party) on the legal investigations of Switzerland's Attorney General into the activities of Banque du Liban.

"I call on the Lebanese authorities to cooperate fully with their Swiss colleagues."

Fabian Molina: "I expect that the Swiss government will now take action to block further funds and prevent future cases of money laundering by Swiss banks."

These are not political sanctions, and baseless accusations, these are actual investigations being done. France is doing the same.

Something that is greatly welcomed and appreciated.

Lebanon recorded today 3,010 new COVID-19 cases and 50 new deaths.

The Lebanese Army: Israeli enemy navy boat fired 4 flares over Lebanese territorial waters.

The Lebanese army doesn't have air defense to counter drones and jets but is easily able to counter IDF boats.

Why do nothing? Will the USA/UK embassy be angry?

Only 15,014 tests were done.

40 deaths today and a backlog of 10, summing to the announced 50.

Chief of Staff Kochavi briefing the IDF elite units today about IDF's mission tomorrow in Lebanon.

Iraq wastes 50,000,000 $ a year to keep them alive. Execution is the only fair punishment for those involved in killing Iraqi soldiers and civilians.

Right defenders should find another job. One that doesn't involve being the advocates of murderers. https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1353524235805757440

I have seen many political lows, but today is the first day I see a Lebanese attacking the Lebanese shepherds that were kidnapped calling them "Hezbo spies and agents" and defending Israel for doing it.

But at the end of the day, I remember, Sharon had Bachir as a lap dog.

Remarkable the hate created by the murder of Rafic Al Hariri and the "Cedar Revolution".

The hate carried by the new generation resembles the unfounded and founded hate of the long gone civil war generation. A damage that can not be repaired.

I hope it was worth it for them.