Trump On Taking Syria’s Oil and, “You Know, the Airport Is Right Nearby”
October 27th, 2019“A very big, very monstrous, very powerful airport, and very expensive airport that was built years ago.”
Ahh, Ye’ Olde Superbase? Is that you?
This is from the old and forgotten depths of Cryptogon’s archives:
What part of Superbase don’t you understand? That’s what people in the business of exploitation and death call a “geostrategic asset.” States don’t give up control of geostrategic assets because a lot of people wear Lick Bush t-shirts and write letters to the editor.
But who knows which superbase? Turns out, the U.S. built multiple superbases in Iraq.
Here’s a helpful search phrase to complete the setting for this Syrian oil heist: CIA created ISIS
And so goes the errrrrl. Again.
Via: NPR – Presidential Speech Transcript – Announcement On Baghdadi’s Death:
Q: Does this give you any pause by your decision to withdraw the troops?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I think it’s great. Look, we don’t want to keep soldiers between Syria and Turkey for the next 200 years. They’ve been fighting for hundreds of years. We’re out. But we are leaving soldiers to secure the oil. And we may have to fight for the oil. It’s okay. Maybe somebody else wants the oil, in which case they have a hell of a fight. But there’s massive amounts of oil.
And we’re securing it for a couple of reasons. Number one, it stops ISIS, because ISIS got tremendous wealth from that oil. We have taken it. It’s secured.
Number two — and again, somebody else may claim it, but either we’ll negotiate a deal with whoever is claiming it, if we think it’s fair, or we will militarily stop them very quickly. We have tremendous power in that part of the world. We have — you know, the airport is right nearby. A very big, very monstrous, very powerful airport, and very expensive airport that was built years ago. We were in there — we’re in that Middle East now for $8 trillion.
Perfect. Still grinning. Thanks