'We should be able to take some'
By Jason Ditz
October 28, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" - 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.
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