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The United States Invades Syria, Kills People, Claims Self-Defense by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-08-26 at 01:51:13 )
The United States Invades Syria, Kills People, Claims Self-Defense by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
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Numerous Syrian and foreign militants have reportedly been killed and several United States troops injured in an escalating exchange of attacks between the American invaders and the people in the country whose territory they are illegally occupying.
On Tuesday night United States Central Command announced that it had "conducted precision airstrikes in Deir ez-Zor Syria" in order to "defend and protect United States forces from attacks like the ones on August 15 against United States personnel by Iran-backed groups."
"The President gave the direction for these strikes pursuant to his Article II authority to protect and defend United States personnel by disrupting or deterring attacks by Iran-backed groups," CENTCOM said.
Iran has denied any link to the troops targeted in the airstrikes, up to ten of whom were reportedly killed.
The United States attack was followed by rocket attacks on United States military positions in eastern Syria, injuring an unknown number of United States troops, to which the United States responded with an Apache helicopter assault on Syrian vehicles from which it claims the rockets were launched. Central Command claims "two or three suspected Iran-backed militants" were killed in the helicopter attack.
Looks like a serious escalation in Syria:
United States airstrikes on Tuesday night provoked rocket attacks on US bases on Wednesday that wounded several US troops. The US responded by launching strikes from Apache helicopters that reportedly killed several people.-Dave DeCamp (DecampDave) August 24, 2022
As of this writing it remains to be seen if this exchange of attacks will continue, but what is crystal clear is who the aggressor is.
"The United States claims to be in Syria to fight ISIS, but it rarely fights ISIS," journalist Aaron Mate tweeted of the exchange. "It is actually there to deny Syria its own oil and wheat, and to occasionally attack Syrians and their allies who defeated US-backed sectarian death squads in the dirty war."
What he says is completely true.
The United States is an occupying force who is there without the permission of the Syrian government, without having been attacked by Syria, and without any valid claim to be defending itself from anyone in Syria.
The "Iran-backed" militias in Syria are operating with the full authorization of the Syrian government. The United States has quite literally invaded a nation on the other side of the world, killed the people in that nation who do not want them there, and then claimed self-defense in doing so.
If I broke into my neighbors house to steal his things, and then murdered him when he tried to stop me or make me leave, it would look pretty ridiculous if I tried to plead self-defense. It would look even more ridiculous if anyone believed me.
SCOOP: United Kingdom envoy praises Israeli airstrike campaign in Syria.-
Axios (axios) August 24, 2022
This comes at the same time as a report from Axios that the British special envoy to Syria had nothing but glowing things to say about the way Israel has been constantly bombing Syria for years:
"The British special envoy for Syria told Israeli officials during a visit to Jerusalem several weeks ago that the Israeli airstrike campaign against Iranian military targets is "probably the only thing that works in Syria," Israeli Foreign Ministry officials briefed on the meetings told Axios."
"In recent years, Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes in Syria," writes Antiwars Dave DeCamp on the Axios report. "The Israelis say that the bombing campaign is to prevent Iran from becoming further entrenched in the country, but the strikes often kill Syrian troops and sometimes kill civilians and damage civilian infrastructure."
"The United States tacitly endorses the bombing campaign in Syria and reportedly coordinates some of the strikes," adds Mr. DeCamp. "In June, The Wall Street Journal reported that Israel secretly coordinates the bombings with the United States and that Washington,D.C. has approved many Israeli airstrikes that were launched from areas near a United States base in southern Syria."
1. Invade a country on the other side of the world
2. Kill the people in that country who do not want you there
3. Claim your actions were self defense-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) August 24, 2022
So if you are wondering why western liberals are all waving Syrian flags and loudly condemning the United States and its allies for their criminal, murderous assault on a sovereign nation, that is why.
I am of course kidding; that is not happening.
That sort of mainstream public outcry is reserved solely for the misdeeds of governments the United States does not approve of, like the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Westerners are only encouraged to contemplate the horrors of war when it is someone elses war.
If it serves the strategic interests of the globe-spanning power structure loosely centralized around the United States, you can bomb your neighbor every week and it will barely make the news. You can even invade a country on the other side of the world and then claim you are defending yourself when they try to throw you out.
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