U.S. air strikes in Syria 3/23/23

[WillBrink]

I never understood why we where in Syria, much less why we are still in Syria.

[TMS951]

I never understood why we where in Syria, much less why we are still in Syria.

Routing of a natural gas line. Russia, and Europes reliance on its natural gas.

Anything other than the above reason, like fighting ISIS is bullshit. The USA only cares about fighting oppression if they stand to gain natural resources from the country.

https://www.news.com.au/world/middle...e280b63a9afb74

[Buncheong]

"Local media reported late Friday that US forces and Iran-backed militants were engaged in back-and-forth fire at multiple locations inside Syria."

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/m...y-source-media

[WillBrink]

Routing of a natural gas line. Russia, and Europes reliance on its natural gas.

Anything other than the above reason, like fighting ISIS is bullshit. The USA only cares about fighting oppression if they stand to gain natural resources from the country.

https://www.news.com.au/world/middle...e280b63a9afb74

Good read, thanx. Hard to keep track of the endless geo political chess moves and that region is such a mess, I often don't pay as close attention to it as I should.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Routing of a natural gas line. Russia, and Europes reliance on its natural gas.

Anything other than the above reason, like fighting ISIS is bullshit. The USA only cares about fighting oppression if they stand to gain natural resources from the country.

https://www.news.com.au/world/middle...e280b63a9afb74

YEp, who was that dude. KEVlishikov, ComradeKEV? Always said DELISH. KInd of an ass, but from I remember he had the idea that Arab gas line as reason Syria was a mess. Probably true, as we saw Russia try to use gas and oil as a weapon over Ukraine.

When do the B-52s arrive?

[Todd.K]

The USA only cares about fighting oppression if they stand to gain natural resources from the country.

You are aware that ISIS used oil money to fund terror around the world when it controlled that area?

Being skeptical about ulterior motives is smart because everyone has them, but overly definitive statements like yours seem lazy. There was and is no energy sources or pipelines in Korea or Vietnam, or anything we took or control from Iraq.

Sometimes I think it’s just our vanity, thinking we can fix every problem in the world.

[prepare]

I never understood why we where in Syria, much less why we are still in Syria.

Supporting the rebels who are fighting the government who is supported by Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah.

Sort of another proxy with Russia that the US knew they could never get support for in a big way like Ukraine.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

You are aware that ISIS used oil money to fund terror around the world when it controlled that area?

Being skeptical about ulterior motives is smart because everyone has them, but overly definitive statements like yours seem lazy. There was and is no energy sources or pipelines in Korea or Vietnam, or anything we took or control from Iraq.

Sometimes I think it’s just our vanity, thinking we can fix every problem in the world.

People get mad if we fight over resources, but do they want us to fight over worthless crap? And to be honest, the oppression doesn’t really happen in resource scarce areas- there is no reason to fight. No one fights over sand unless it has oil underneath.

[vicious_cb]

I never understood why we where in Syria, much less why we are still in Syria.

The original reason was the overthrow of Assad by taking advantage of the Arab Spring unrest. Obama funded and armed the rebel groups who were trying to fight Assad including what would become ISIS, the other groups like the FSA and Muslim Brotherhood just splintered into factions and fought among themselves while ISIS; instead of going north and taking Damascus pulled a hard 180 and went south and took over large parts of Iraq and started the custer f*** over there. Its nothing more of continuation of our $hitshow called our middle east foreign policy where everything we do blows up in our faces.

[georgeib]

The original reason was the overthrow of Assad by taking advantage of the Arab Spring unrest. Obama funded and armed the rebel groups who were trying to fight Assad including what would become ISIS, the other groups like the FSA and Muslim Brotherhood just splintered into factions and fought among themselves while ISIS; instead of going north and taking Damascus pulled a hard 180 and went south and took over large parts of Iraq and started the custer f*** over there. Its nothing more of continuation of our $hitshow called our middle east foreign policy where everything we do blows up in our faces.

Might even make a person wonder if the Arab Spring was nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to create a refugee crisis in Europe. And who knows, it may even make one wonder if all these events might be part of a larger agenda to weaken nationalism and further globalism. Not that any good, compliant, government and mainstream media trusting citizen would wonder such things of course. I'm sure they're just a series of only seemingly coordinated missteps that all just happen to lead in a very specific, but completely coincidental, direction. And naturally, the current situation in Ukraine is completely and totally unrelated in any conceivable way.

And of course, the brewing currency and debt crisis won't be at all used to further strip us of privacy, independence, and property rights. The formation and proliferation of CBDCs are completely innocuous, and will just help stabilize national and international economics, help bring an end to inequality and hunger, and bring about the utopia we all so deeply desire. Heck, before you know it, you'll own nothing and be happy.

How dare any of you malcontents question our betters? Don't you know that they know what's best for the you, me, America, and the world?