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Skans » 31 Dec 2024, 11:58 am » wrote: ↑

31 Dec 2024, 11:58 am

Yeah, well, the next time I talk to Soul you can call me an idiot - I'll accept that!!!!

I’ll save calling you an idiot for when you call for nuking a nation of people for what their leaders do

Skans » 31 Dec 2024, 10:50 am » wrote: ↑

31 Dec 2024, 10:50 am

LOL - it took you years though!!!  YEARS.  Idiot speaks.  Idiot listens. :die:  
 

Fools lead people dying to believe life isn't self evident daily into better tomorrows midnight to noon when same results appear while everything exists never same results twice each heartbeat added of anything specifically timed apart now, noon to midnight each rotation forward.

Self evident time relative to ancestral time alive each rotation evolving like never again total sum left changing forward now as displaced specifically here.

Mrkelly » 30 Dec 2024, 5:40 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Dec 2024, 5:40 pm

I doubt it

he said that we are there to protect the oil

same as biden 

you guys are in for a rude awakening 

but you will go along with what ever he does 

like the left did

because … tRump

the US was fighting russia over the oil a few years back. assad complained.
 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/ ... s-conflict

Mrkelly » 29 Dec 2024, 1:59 pm » wrote: ↑

29 Dec 2024, 1:59 pm

Splained by a couple of the greats

https://youtu.be/UjhXXspw7pw?si=sFc60hHibQ9D9VVM

during trump's last term
--------------------------------------------At a Wisconsin rally on Tuesday, President Donald Trump lauded his decision to retain troops in eastern Syria to control oil fields there, despite warnings that such a move could constitute a war crime.The president delivered a characteristically bombastic speech in Milwaukee, touching on multiple foreign policy issues that have come to the fore in recent months.Among them was America's controversial continued presence in Syria, the recent assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani and subsequent retaliatory missile attacks."People said to me, 'Why are you staying in Syria,'" Trump said Tuesday. "Because I kept the oil, which frankly we should have done in Iraq," he added, to cheers and applause from the audience. The president has previously criticized his predecessors for not profiting off Iraqi oil wells."So they say, 'Trump's in Syria,' I didn't pull out—I did pull out," the president continued. "We have the oil, really secure. We'll see what happens with it."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-u ... ly-1482250
 

Mrkelly » 29 Dec 2024, 1:59 pm » wrote: ↑

29 Dec 2024, 1:59 pm

Splained by a couple of the greats

https://youtu.be/UjhXXspw7pw?si=sFc60hHibQ9D9VVM

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The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has responded by accusing the US of "stealing oil" from his country and Russia, a major supporter of Mr Assad, has called it "international state banditry".
 

Mrkelly » 29 Dec 2024, 1:59 pm » wrote: ↑

29 Dec 2024, 1:59 pm

Splained by a couple of the greats

https://youtu.be/UjhXXspw7pw?si=sFc60hHibQ9D9VVM

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/politics ... index.html

The Trump administration has approved the first-ever deal for an American firm to develop and modernize oil fields in northeast Syria under control of the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.The secretive contract, which has been in the works for more than a year and was signed in Syria last month, is expected to produce billions of dollars for Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria, none of which will be shared with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to sources who spoke to CNN.News of the deal drew an immediate rebuke from the Assad government in Damascus, which issued a statement Sunday saying the deal was an attempt to “steal Syria’s oil under the sponsorship and support of the American administration,” and that the agreement is “null and void and has no legal basis.”The contract is in line with President Donald Trump’s long-standing goal of securing US control over oil fields in the region, and gives a little-known American firm, Delta Crescent Energy, wide purview to develop and upgrade more than half of the Syrian oil fields under the control of the SDF, said one of the company’s founders.“We have been authorized to engage in all aspects of energy development, transportation, marketing, refining and exploration in order to develop and redevelop the infrastructure in the region and to help the people in the region get their products into the international market,” said James Cain, a former US ambassador to Denmark during the George W. Bush administration and one of the co-founders of Delta Crescent Energy.Cain’s two other partners in the company are James Reese, a retired Delta Force Army officer who used to run his own private security firm, and John Dorrier, a veteran oil executive with years of experience operating in the Middle East.The trio formed the new company for the sole purpose of securing this deal in Syria and have worked intensely with State Department officials for more than a year, sources tell CNN. In April, the company received a license from the Treasury Department exempting it from the vast sanctions regime the US has placed on Syria in order to isolate the Assad regime, sources told CNN.The State Department and the Pentagon have officially sought to distance themselves from the project, but sources tell CNN that behind the scenes the State Department was active in making the deal happen.-------------------------- somehow I really doubt the kurds got billions of dollars.
 

Mrkelly » 29 Dec 2024, 1:59 pm » wrote: ↑

29 Dec 2024, 1:59 pm

Splained by a couple of the greats

https://youtu.be/UjhXXspw7pw?si=sFc60hHibQ9D9VVM

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https://www.bbc.com/news/50464561

President Donald Trump says he expects the United States to benefit by millions of dollars per month from Syria's oil revenues while US troops remain in the country.The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has responded by accusing the US of "stealing oil" from his country and Russia, a major supporter of Mr Assad, has called it "international state banditry".So who currently controls Syria's oil production and who benefits from it?