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Tense encounters could turn deadly, sparking a major clash of superpowers after third such incident within a week.
Yet another dangerous incident has played out between American and Russian forces operating in Syria in what appears a series of standoffs near key oil installations since Saturday. “This is the third incident that occurred within a week,” one local reporter told VOA in an alarming report.
But now Voice of America reports three total incidents, with the most recent ones happening Tuesday and Wednesday in al-Hasakah province, as newly detailed by the opposition outlet Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
One eyewitness reporter on the ground described the following:
The incident on Tuesday is part of a series of similar incidents that happened in recent days between the two powers over their presence in Syria, local sources said.
“This is the third incident that occurred within a week,” said Nishan Mohammad, a local reporter who said he witnessed another recent standoff between U.S. and Russian troops in northeast Syria.
“I was there last weekend when U.S. soldiers stopped Russian military vehicles and forced them to head back to their base,” he told VOA in a phone interview Tuesday.
While none of these close encounters between two major powers on disputed soil resulted in exchange of gunfire, it presents a potentially deadly situation which could set off spiraling escalation between two superpowers.
This is especially the case given the US and Russia now have small military installations dotting northern Syria in somewhat close proximity to one another.
Months ago US troops withdrew from some northernmost Syrian towns amid a Turkish military incursion.
In some instances Russian forces immediately came in and took over the same installations, such as the sizable Sirrin Air Base in the northern Aleppo area.
While it doesn’t appear Russia has any intent to “take the oil” like the White House has repeatedly pledged, Russian forces there do represent the interests of it’s ally Assad and the Syrian Army.
And as Trump continues talking up “securing the oil” — most recently at Davos — Assad has simultaneously promised to retake all of sovereign Syria, especially the oil-rich Deir Ezzor and Hasakah provinces.
President Trump said while addressing reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday: “But very importantly, as you know, we have the oil. And we left soldiers for the oil, because we take the oil and we’re working on that, and we have it very nicely secured.”
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Just a matter of time before Russia brings up in the UN that the US is blocking Syrian oil resources it needs to use for its reconstruction. Brian Ghilliotti
That’s the whole point! It proves 24/7 that the AmeriCunt Terrorists are just a bunch of Genocidal Petty Assholes.
The US terrorists should be kicked out of Syria and Iraq by all means possible.
the UN is completely worthless. They haven’t exactly done anything to stop Israel’s nonsense over the years
Here is an article that looks at statistics from Syria’s oil and gas resources and how significant they are to potential outside investors:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2019/10/syrias-oil-and-natural-gas-potential.html
While Syria’s conventional reserves of both oil and natural gas are relatively small, the nation’s potential for non-conventional oil reserves is quite significant and may prove to be one of the reasons why Washington is intervening in yet another “party” to which it has not been invited.
It shows mainly, the relatively small resources are for domestic use important it makes them less vulnerable for exernal blackmail + extortion via an ernergy blockade/embargo…that’s the reason why the AmeriCunt Terrorist Forces holding the Syrian oil/gas field ‘Hostage’.
Hey, we’re lying and cheating and stealing Syria’s oil. Russia and Syria, butt out.
Voice of America and SOHR?????
At the end of the day Russia is legally in Syria, unlike the US and I guess many of us are getting to the stage that we want to see the US get some of their own medicine.
As millions of people across the Middle East to South Asia (Pakistan and India) express their disgust toward the US for murdering top Iranian and Iraqi officials (fighting the US created ISIS/Daesh); it’s obvious that this movement of people, can only grow and get stronger. It’s precisely because of that, Syria will be an integral part of the growing solidarity; that will make the “Eurasian Project” led by Russia, China, India and Iran, unstoppable. So, a few Yankee soldiers guarding stolen Syrian oil, are restricting Russian military traffic. Big deal! In time, the Yank’s will shit themselves and do a… Read more »