More than one year after the US imposed sanctions under the "Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act", the UN reported an "800 per cent rise in food prices."
US officials saw this as a success.
Dana Stroul, a senior Pentagon official under Biden, explained in 2019 that the government-controlled areas where most Syrians live "is rubble." And through US control of "the international financial institutions and our cooperation with the Europeans", the US can "hold a line on preventing reconstruction aid and technical expertise from going back into Syria."
James Jeffrey, the former US envoy to Syria, later wrote that the US has “crushed the country’s economy through sanctions.” The US and allies helped “choke the regime’s economy through sanctions, holds on reconstruction assistance, and maritime interdiction.”
Andrew Tabler, another former senior US official for Syria policy, likewise boasted that US sanctions destroyed Syria’s currency, leading to “corresponding cuts in regime subsidies that have exacerbated fuel and food shortages for everyday Syrians.”
Ahead of Christmas in 2022, US official Joel Rayburn celebrated his success: Syria's "economy and state are collapsing", he declared, with "no fuel/electricity", "basic needs unaffordable," schools shuttered, and "people desperate."
People who opposed this economic warfare on ordinary civilians were called "Assadists." I think that supporters of this policy were, whether they knew it or not, sadists.
🔗SOURCE➡️ Aaron Maté .
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The US is illegally occupying a third of Syria, the region which contains most of the country’s oil and much of its arable farmland, plundering the resources of the country, all the while imposing unilateral sanctions on Syria for the demented, twisted, psychopathic motive of preventing the reconstruction of the now impoverished nation.
...The whole '“We have to be in Syria to fight ISIS” (and that is why we are plundering the country’s exhaustible natural resources as the people live in poverty the US has largely contributed to, and still does through sanctions) is a bit convenient given that a 2012 intelligence report from the DOD reveals that the US *checks notes* predicted that funding the US funding the opposition to Assad, whom the report acknowledged was largely composed of *checks notes* Jihadi extremists including Al-Qaeda, would likely lead to an Islamic state, which “the supporting powers to the opposition”, identifed as the US, Turkey, and the Gulf nations, WANT…. “isolate the Assad regime”… You can’t make this shit up.
And of course, the US funding these “moderate rebels” and flooding them with weapons would later lead to ISIS.
Excerpt From My 2019 Article Discussing The 2012 DOD Intelligence Document
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