Syria demands UN hold Washington accountable for oil-theft operations

Fazoo , 9 months ago

Obvious bias is obvious. YPG owns the region because they killed ISIS for it. Assad should have thought about these consequences when he focused on securing the capital at the expense of Syria as a whole. Sure though, complain about them funding themselves by selling oil. US is only doing the same thing Russia is, backing a regional player.

cyclohexane , 9 months ago

Been the case for years now. Nothing will change unfortunately.

kitonthenet , 9 months ago

I'd actually much rather have the YPG have a bunch of oil revenue than bashar al assad, and since syria is in the business of recognizing breakaway territories of ethnic minorities I don't see how they could have a problem with it

cyclohexane , 9 months ago

Then you must not be from the region or have sufficient familiarity with it. Let me just give you some context (and I’ll preface with saying that I support the YPG; or at least I much rather them win over bashar or the other rebels)

• the vast majority of the population is under Assad’s government’s control
• The people of the region, no matter under whose control, are suffering immensely. Oil and wheat are the most important resources in the region.
• there’s no electricity in Syria right now, the production of which is tied to oil supply. The vast majority of Syrians get about 1 hour of electric power per day. This means that Syrians can’t use fridges, they can’t stay warm in the winter, or have partly reliable transportation. Not even hospitals can power their ancient equipment reliably. The number of people starving to death remains undocumented and concealed by the government

So while we can talk about how nice it is that YPG can make profits from oil, the vast majority of the region’s population are starving and dying from cold due to the lack of it. And I hope you understand how hard it is for me to keep my cool writing this, because someone on the Internet thinks the group claiming their preferred ideology should continue hoarding oil supply to please the US, and starve people. I keep my cool because I assume you have good intentions and did not know the above facts (since unfortunately media no longer thinks we’re important). I hope you reconsider your position (not that it’ll save our people. They will starve for the foreseeable future unfortunately. But at least it gives me peace).