Is there a reason the Syrian army can't "protect" those oil fields?Russia’s defense ministry on Saturday harshly criticized the US decision to send armored vehicles and combat troops into eastern Syria to protect oil fields, calling it “banditry”.
The US defense secretary, Mark Esper, has said the move is aimed at keeping the fields from potentially falling into the hands of Islamic State. The decision was the latest sign that extracting the US military from Syria is more uncertain and complicated than Donald Trump has made it out to be.
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The foreign ministry spokesman Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov said “what Washington is doing now, the seizure and control of oil fields in eastern Syria under its armed control, is, quite simply, international state banditry.
“All hydrocarbon deposits and other minerals located on the territory of Syria do not belong to the [Isis] terrorists, and even less to the ‘American defenders from Isis terrorists,’ but exclusively to the Syrian Arab Republic.
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A US convoy of more than a dozen vehicles was spotted driving south of the north-eastern city of Qamishli, likely heading to the oil-rich Deir el-Zour area where there are oil fields, or possibly to another base nearby.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor also reported the convoy, saying it arrived earlier from Iraq.
Guardian
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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