Washington’s economic warfare against Syria is exacerbating the country’s food shortages. According to the UN, as of February, the number of Syrians that are close to starvation is at 12.4 million, or 60 percent of the population.
When I heard US Secretary of State Blinken’s take-away line from his D.C. press conference on RNZ’s news bulletin today on events in Kazakhstan ‘I think one lesson in recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave’ I wondered what the Iraqis would think.
On the basis of a negotiated joint security agreement among the central Asian countries Kazakhstan leader Tokayev invited these countries to assist in providing security in what appears to be a co-ordinated insurrection of the ‘colour revolution’ type which also happened in Ukraine. Co-incidentally (or not) Ukraine’s situation is a key component of talks between Russia and the US starting tomorrow at Russia’s initiative about NATO’s eastward encroachment to Russia’s border. Russian troops form the main part of the joint force sent to Kazakhstan to restore order, and they also seem to have been well prepared and able to act swiftly. They were not facing a parade with placards. And the Russians were invited into Kazakhstan,
Iraq on the other hand did not invite the United States to invade in 2003 on the basis of what is now known to be an utterly false pretence of the possession of ‘weapons of mass destruction.’ Having now caused mass destruction by their intervention, the United States has been asked to leave by the Iraqi government, but is taking its time over leaving, no doubt also now embarrassed by its tail-between-the-legs exit from Afghanistan.
They were not invited into Syria either, but now still sit east of the Euphrates on top of oilfields and that country;s granary, denying these resources to suffering owners. At Al Tanf, they block a highway that would allow passage from Iraq to the coast. Having bombed the place to destruction, they refuse to assist in its regeneration. Blinken recently stated that the US position is to oppose Syria’s reconstruction until there is regime change
Washington’s economic warfare against Syria is exacerbating the country’s food shortages. According to the UN, as of February, the number of Syrians that are close to starvation is at 12.4 million, or 60 percent of the population.
The talks between US and Russia could be crucial for peace in the area. More information will undoubtedly come out about events in Kazakhstan; Blinken’s hypocrisy is not helpful. Watch this space and cross your fingers.
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