By Tony Cartalucci
June 21, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - "Chinese
media highlighted a recent plea by Beijing to the US to
lift sanctions against Syria.
China’s CGTN in an article titled, “Chinese
envoy asks U.S. to lift unilateral sanctions on Syria,”
would report:
A Chinese envoy
on Tuesday asked the United States to immediately
lift unilateral sanctions against Syria.
Years of economic
blockade have caused tremendous hardships to the
Syrian people, in particular women and children. The
sufferings caused by the devaluation of the Syrian
currency and soaring commodities prices, including
food prices, fall heavily on civilians across the
country, said Zhang Jun, China’s permanent
representative to the United Nations.
China’s attempts to aid
Syria economically and challenge American sanctions
aimed at Damascus follows Russia’s open opposition to
the US-led proxy war against the Syrian government which
included Moscow’s direct military involvement in the
conflict and Russia’s leading role in liquidating
US-armed militant groups across the country.
US sanctions against
Syria have long since outlived the alleged motivation
for America’s involvement in the conflict – claims of
supporting the democratic aspirations of the Syrian
people and opposing alleged human rights violations by
the Syrian government.
It has been indisputably
revealed that the US deliberately engineered the
conflict – from organizing protests before 2011 to
arming and deploying militants to the country to shift
2011 street protests into a destructive proxy war. It
has also long been revealed that so-called “freedom
fighters” were in fact extremists drawn from various
terrorist organizations including Al Qaeda and its many
franchises.
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Since Syria’s
security operations were in response to what is now
revealed to have been US aggression-by-proxy and
eventually direct US military aggression against the
Syrian government – the sanctions themselves are
revealed to be merely an economic component to US
attempts to decimate the Syrian nation – not in any
way aid or assist the Syrian people.
And of course US
sanctions against Syria have complicated the lives of
all Syrians – from the vast majority who remained in
support of the Syrian government and lived in
government-controlled areas of Syria throughout the
conflict to even US-backed militants who eventually turn
in their arms and surrender to government forces – they
all collectively face economic hardship and a difficult
road ahead in rebuilding their nation.
Thus the altruistic
excuses the US used to first impose sanctions on Syria
and its increasingly feeble excuses used to continue
justifying them now are revealed as little more than
propaganda and should be taken into consideration when
questioning why the US has imposed sanctions on other
nations.
The US engineered and
executed what was a humanitarian catastrophe in Syria –
one that it is still actively attempting to perpetuate
for as long as possible and one now admittedly
perpetuated to “make
it a quagmire for the Russians.” Not only is
Washington’s “humanitarian” justification for placing
sanctions on Syria revealed as empty, but it is
Washington itself who is guilty of trampling human
rights in Syria.
China – and many others
for that matter – have asked for these sanctions to be
lifted. Washington – to no one’s surprise refuses – but
the inability of so-called “international” institutions
to hold Washington accountable or to alleviate Syria’s
current crisis reveals that the “international order”
these institutions serve is dysfunctional and that
alternatives desperately need to be found.
China’s economic aid and
efforts to reconstruct Syria will eventually be realized
– it is only a matter of time and how China will get
around US sanctions.
This will be done either
by directly opposing them or creating global systems
that are entirely independent of and insulated from
American interference. Either way – if Washington
insists on maintaining its current policies – a global
system independent of and insulated from America is one
in which America finds itself cutoff and withering – a
prospect that benefits neither the American people nor
even America’s ruling special interests.
Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based
geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for
the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”. -
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