Saving Syria from its saviours, and the US's haste to save the oil

The real problem in Syria is that no one who is in a position to actually rule Syria's fate takes into account that people live in Syria. That all the actors who happen to be in a position to decide Syria's future, with the exception of Turkey, are preoccupied with snatching the goods of the sinking ship both makes the solution of the problem harder and postpones it, and also puts on display, every day, scenes shameful in the name of humanity.

Those who come to save Syria from the terror threat first slaughter hundreds of civilians for every terrorist. That is why even the fight against terrorism brings the Syrian people no benefit whatsoever. Because even when left alone with the terrorists, Syrians do not die that much, do not become that much victimized, but the tyranny and deadly effects of those who come to save them from the terrorists reach an extreme. Thus the famous adage repeats itself: this people has suffered from no one as much as it has suffered from its saviors.

The Syrian people, who were really awaiting saviors from Assad's tyranny, saw the real great tyranny from the terrorist organizations that came to save them, and a tyranny greater even than theirs from Russia, Iran and the USA, who came to save them from those terror organizations.

We had tried to show what each savior is actually after saving in Syria. In total there is the image of vultures swarming over a wounded, fallen living creature. One of the examples that most concretely embodies this image was also formed by the justification the USA took refuge in to keep staying in Syria despite its admission that there is nothing left to protect in Syria: protecting the oil in Syria. From whom? From DAEŞ? Wasn't the DAEŞ danger gone?

So will the oil be protected on behalf of the Syrian people, or will it be protected on behalf of the USA, to be seized? If so, this is called plunder. In any case, what is this about coveting the seizure of the little bit of oil that is not enough for the Syrian people, from hunger and misery? All this fuss for the little oil to be plundered from a burned, ruined Syria, whose people are wretched, hungry, miserable? Does the American people not care at all what condition this puts the USA in?

Actually, it is not right to say that the American people do not care. Indeed, Trump has become the target of considerable criticism for expressing this justification. James G. Stewart, associate professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at British Columbia and author of the study "Corporate War Crimes: Investigating the Pillage of Natural Resources," gave a serious warning in the Washington Post that these words were the confession of a war crime.

Stewart foregrounds the standard rule in international law that pillaging a country's resources, a war waged for the purpose of pouncing on that country's resources, is directly a war crime, and records Trump's words about continuing to keep troops on the justification of "protecting Syrian oil" somewhere as a confession of this crime, and therefore as evidence.

Although Trump's discourse is often attributed to Trump's peculiar personality, in fact he is a personality who exposes the real intentions of US policies in his blunt style. At the end of the day, what the USA gains, whether in Trump's style or with the more legitimate justifications it has accustomed us to until now, may perhaps be questioned.

That an extremely simple, vulgar goal such as "saving the oil" has been revealed beneath the operations that began in the name of saving Syria from terror is of course not surprising.

Still, one has difficulty understanding how a USA with superpower status, with its gigantic operations, has coveted such small things. Sometimes all the means of a whole country can be mobilized for a company's small gain. If a legitimate way could be found to satisfy those small companies without embarking on so many operations, perhaps countries would not have to enter even such adventures with no certain end. Just like the way the mighty USA has now devoted its whole Middle East policy to the service of Israel.

In the end, whether with Trump or not, all the USA's policies in the Middle East have the problem of being in the grip of the arms, oil and Zionist lobbies in the country, and these together undermine US hegemony in the region and in fact on a worldwide scale.

A mountain cannot withstand what is ready-made. The world's rising economies are rapidly overtaking the USA's supremacy, which has not even reached a century. While its own rivals proceed at this speed, the USA's still being caught up in such small calculations lights warning signals regarding its own future.

In this process, if the USA does not adopt more rational policies and pull itself together, in the very near future it seems doomed to fall behind the world also in the political leg of the race in which it has fallen behind economically.

Meanwhile, let us nonetheless continue to think about ways of saving Syria from its saviors.