Narration of a news resource scavengers, American-style banditry
According to IRNA, the Ministry of Oil Syria On August 9th (18 August), he published a statement accusing the US occupation forces and their mercenaries of stealing about 83% of the country’s oil daily (66 thousand barrels) from the fields occupied by US forces and militias known as the “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF). Under their support, he accused in al-Hasakah in the east and other northern areas of Syria. According to the data of this ministry, from the beginning of the war to the middle of this year, the Syrian oil sector suffered about 105 billion dollars as a result of the American oil theft operation.
Local sources in Syria’s Haskeh province reported on August 6 (15 August) that the US military had looted dozens of oil tankers and transported them out of the country, and this was the second oil shipment stolen by the US that week. Nearly 200 full tanker trucks were transported out of Syria by US forces in July alone.
Washington has intensified its procedure to steal Syria’s resources for sale abroad, as former US President Donald Trump admitted in a comment in 2019 that the reason for the presence of this country’s forces in Syria is oil: “We have oil. We preserve (Syria). “We left the soldiers behind only for the oil.”
According to Prensa Latina news agency, the US intervened in this country under the pretext of supporting rebel groups against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Despite the fact that American forces began their withdrawal from this country in 2018, their presence continues in some areas and they loot 70,000 barrels of oil daily.
background
Controlling countries’ strategic natural resources has always been one of America’s motivations for launching endless and multi-dimensional wars against countries. America’s war intentions are well-revealed in a document entitled “Irregular Warfare Doctrine of the United States Armed Forces” published in 2009. According to the website of the Telesur TV channel, in this document, the United States, by defining a specific “battlefield” as the “Arc of Instability” in the Middle East, attacked the important strategic and energy resources of this region and named its war aims as “America’s Strategic Security Zone”. North” followed in the Middle East.
“Iva Gollinger”, an American researcher and lawyer, believes that this document shows the models of irregular warfare to consolidate American political hegemony throughout the region. In this form of asymmetric war, techniques such as subversion, infiltrating civil society, employing psychological operation mechanisms and promoting chaos, instability and discontent are used to create internal conflicts and weaken the pillars of power. As we can see in the case of Syria, the obvious placement of America on one of the sides of the conflict and the financing of irregular forces is also one of the forms of these asymmetric wars.
According to this Spanish-language media, since 2010, the United States has continuously increased its military budget in order to continue the presence and deployment of its troops in the Middle East and especially in Syria. In 2011, the United States accounted for 41% of the total military spending in the world, and in 2014, the total US military spending reached 526 billion dollars, which was estimated to be five times the country’s spending on health and education.
The official justification of America for invading other countries is the repeated use of the model of preventive war, such as promoting social, political and economic crises, to justify its intervention, while the issue of encroachment, looting and looting of countries’ natural resources is one of the main goals and behind-the-scenes motives that America has always followed.
The importance of the subject
Former US President Barack Obama declared during the 2011 war in Libya: We will do whatever is necessary to protect American citizens. This is our highest priority. We strongly use violence in Libya We condemn
NATO forces entered Libya in March 2011 due to human rights violations and humanitarian crisis, and since that year, a series of popular and political demonstrations have taken place in this region. These events ultimately led to the downfall of the governments of Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the escalation of violence in Yemen and the civil war in Libya. Events listed in America’s Manual of Unconventional Warfare. In an article in 2016, the New York Times stated that one of the goals of the United States, in addition to overthrowing the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and destroying the country, was to take over the country’s natural wealth.
Meanwhile, “Edward Markey”, the Democratic representative and the senior member of the natural resources committee of the US House at that time (2011), in an interview with the MSNBC TV channel, while agreeing with the decision of Obama and the allies of the United States regarding the military attack on Libya, stated the main reason for the attack on Libya. He read the issue of oil and said that we are in Libya because of oil and the reason for our intervention is to guarantee the 5 million barrels of daily oil that we import from OPEC.
campaign to Afghanistan Immediately after September 11, 2001, under the pretext of the “war on terror” and without the presence of specific hostilities, it began with the official announcement of George W. Bush: Under my orders, the United States military launched a series of attacks on al-Qaeda training camps and Taliban military installations in Afghanistan. has started.
The Spanish publication La Vanguardia, following the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan after 20 years of fruitless presence, in a report entitled “Natural resources; “Afghanistan’s hidden treasure” wrote: Afghans are sitting on mineral resources, which, according to Afghan government sources, are worth three trillion dollars. When America invaded Afghanistan in 2001, American geologists arrived in Afghanistan in October, a few days after the presence of the military, and as it happened during the colonial explorations of the 19th century, scientists almost always followed the army. In this way, after September 11, the Americans immediately went to Afghanistan to search for metals.
According to La Vanguardia, the US, which started wars before Afghanistan to control and ensure access to oil, is now leaving Afghanistan without using the oil of the 21st century, i.e. minerals.
In the evening of March 19, 2003, US President George W. Bush addressed the public from his office in the White House: At this moment, American and coalition forces are in the first stage of military operations. The purpose of this disarmament operation IraqFreeing people and saving the world is a big risk. In this way, the United States made Iraq the target of its war-making with a short distance from the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, but the Iraq war caused the public opinion to become more involved in the exact reason for the American military attack on Iraq. Along with America’s behind-the-scenes goals, gaining Iraq’s rich oil resources was one of America’s motives for attacking this country. In order to prevent the Iraq war from being called an “oil war”, George Bush refrained from talking about the country’s oil interests, but Washington actually went from the fire of the Iraq crisis to an energy war with Russia, China and OPEC.
In the article “Iraq; “War for Oil” written by Oscar Rene Vargas: None of the experts are unaware of the strategic importance of oil for the United States, the world’s largest importer of crude oil, and the fact that Iraq has the second largest reserves in the world. America is a big producer of oil, but the economy of this country needs three times the amount of domestic oil. The amount of US oil imports in 2001 reached 11.6 million barrels per day, and more than 20% of this amount was imported from Saudi Arabia. As such, this dependence was sufficient for the Bush administration’s military intervention in Iraq.
Mehdi Al-Mashat, head of the Supreme Political Council Yemen He recently stated: We will never remain silent against looting and looting of Yemen’s wealth and resources. The mercenaries of the aggressor coalition of America and Saudi Arabia continue to loot the oil and gas resources of the Yemeni nation and transfer the money from the sale of oil and gas to the National Bank of Saudi Arabia.
According to Cuba’s official news agency, the US war against terrorism also opened the country’s forces to Yemen. Since December 14, 2009, America has openly participated in the conflict of this Middle East country by carrying out 28 airstrikes. With the support of the United States, the United Arab Emirates and several other countries, Saudi Arabia has carried out military aggression against Yemen since March 2015 and blockaded the country by land, sea and air. An unprecedented humanitarian crisis has reigned over this country and the people of Yemen are deprived of the natural resources and wealth of their country. Meanwhile, the Saudi coalition supported by the US continues to loot the country’s wealth, especially oil and gas.
“The coup against me was to acquire lithium reserves”. A phrase repeated in recent years by Evo Morales, the former president Bolivia we have heard Leaving aside the oil-rich regions of the Middle East, the United States, knowing Latin America’s rich natural resources from oil to lithium, has always claimed to be the guardian of this so-called “backyard”.
In July 2020, a Twitter user blamed Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, the pioneer of electric cars in the world, and wrote, “The United States organized a coup in Bolivia so that Musk could have access to the country’s lithium.” Musk replied, “We will stage a coup against anyone we want!” accept!”. From that Twitter message until now, there is no record except screenshots in news notes.
According to the US Geological Survey, it is estimated that Bolivia’s lithium reserves are equivalent to 22% of the world’s lithium reserves, and above its neighbors Chile with 18% and Argentina with 16%, it has the world’s largest lithium reserves. On November 10, 2019, there was a coup against the legitimate government of Evo Morales, which, according to investigations, was organized and financed by the United States.
Assessment
“This is nothing but the motivation of the desire to dominate the world, America considers itself the policeman of the world, America considers itself the owner of the world And he does not understand that we live in a multi-polar world. These short sentences of “Juan Carlos Eleman”, a representative of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, criticizing the actions of the White House against this South American country, can be presented as the most concise interpretation of America’s behavior towards the world.
Although after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States was trying to advance its foreign policy orientation based on legitimizing any aggressive intervention within the framework of the unipolar system, but the rise of powers such as China and Russia, the formation of alliances such as “BRICS”, the increasing desire In order to turn away from America as the only acting option in the world arena and to strengthen regional convergences, countries have made countries to monitor America’s actions with more vigilance.
The relative superiority in the economic field along with the military, cultural, ideological, social and political position is among the factors that provide the ground for America and other countries to achieve the position of superior power. In this way, although superiority in the world economy is one of the powerful motivations that opens America’s feet to any part of the world, but interference in oil-rich countries, countries rich in mineral resources and natural wealth always requires excuses such as fighting terrorism, defense They have had freedom, security guarantee, pre-emptive defense strategy, etc., so that under their protection, Western countries, especially America, can implement their policies.
As we have witnessed and are witnessing, wars such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria created the ground for the US to interfere with the resources of these countries, and the war in Ukraine and Europe’s great weakness in dependence on Russian energy sources made America the largest supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the world. The world turned. According to the report of the United States Energy Information Administration, the United States increased its nominal capacity in the production of liquefied gas from the end of 2021 and was able to become the most important exporter of this commodity in the world market by using the needs of Europe.
Dependence on imported oil has always been a concern of American statesmen. According to data from the US Energy Information Administration, oil imports to the US in 2021 increased by 19% and reached an average of 3.2 million barrels per day. According to the Oil Price report, in 2022, the United States will continue to import more than its exports, and its imports will reach an annual average of 3.9 million barrels per day. Only in 2020, the United States became the sole exporter of oil (more sales than imports) for the first time since 1973.
Finally, the American invasion of different countries is not a definite equation with one unknown, and the role of the natural and national wealth of the target countries in the occasional American military attacks cannot be ignored.