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‘Mission creep’: US to block Russian, Syrian forces from vast oil fields
The U.S. mission in Syria has morphed far beyond counterterrorism operations and now puts American forces in a position where they could battle Russian troops for control of Syrian oil.
A day after President Trump announced a successful raid that resulted in the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Pentagon officials said the fight against the terrorist group is far from over, and they stressed that the military will continue searching out ISIS leaders across Syria.
They also confirmed a major shift in the broader U.S. strategy inside the war-torn country, one that analysts say represents a dangerous example of “mission creep” away from the initial American goal in Syria to defeat ISIS. Despite Mr. Trump’s efforts to pull American forces from a “forever war” in Syria, Pentagon leaders said the mission to protect vital oil fields from ISIS has expanded and now includes a directive to keep anyone — including the Russian military and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s forces — away from the energy reserves.
The new policy sets up the potential for American troops to clash with Russian forces for control of the strategically vital area. At a Pentagon press conference Monday, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper was asked whether an element of the plan to redeploy U.S. personnel to the oil fields includes keeping the resource out of the hands of Russians or Syrian forces.
“The short answer is yes, it presently does,” Mr. Esper said. “We want to make sure the [Syrian Democratic Forces] has access to the resources in order to guard the prisons, in order to arm their own troops, in order to assist us with the defeat of ISIS.”
Although the prospect of a U.S.-Russian fight in northeastern Syria seems unlikely, the fact that the Trump administration would open the door to such a scenario is deeply concerning, analysts said.
“It’s highly dangerous to conduct foreign policy like this,” said Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at the Washington think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies who tracks counterterrorism operations extensively. “It puts us at risk of … potentially butting heads with the Russians. That’s a concern. It should be a concern for everyone. And we shouldn’t make decisions like this lightly.
“That is the very definition of mission creep,” he added.
Military officials confirmed that U.S. troops have begun their mission to protect Syria’s vital oil region, which at its peak produced nearly 400,000 barrels a day, according to Oilprice.com. That production has dropped significantly during Syria’s civil war.
“We’re keeping the oil — remember that,” Mr. Trump said during a speech Monday to police chiefs in Chicago. “I’ve always said that: ‘Keep the oil.’ We want to keep the oil. $45 million a month? Keep the oil. We’ve secured the oil.”
It’s not clear how many American forces will be stationed in northeastern Syria to guard the oil and how long they will remain there. Mr. Esper said he expects the force to be smaller than the roughly 2,000 troops who were in Syria until just weeks ago.
“At the end of the day, my expectation is it’ll be fewer than what we had before and they’ll be going home,” he said.
The president this month ordered all American forces out of northern Syria ahead of a Turkish military offensive against the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a key U.S. ally in the fight against ISIS. The administration ultimately brokered a cease-fire between the two sides, and the deal opened the door to an increased Russian military presence inside Syria.
Russian forces are now conducting patrols along the Syria-Turkey border.
After ordering the withdrawal, Mr. Trump adjusted course and said the U.S. would guard Syria’s oil reserves to keep the crude out of the hands of ISIS, which has relied on oil revenue to fund its terrorist operations across the Middle East and Africa. The president also has talked openly about making a deal with major U.S. energy companies to ramp up Syrian oil production.
Military officials seemed to downplay the notion of a clash with Russia over Syrian fuel. They said the primary mission will be to prevent ISIS from using the oil to fund a resurgence after al-Baghdadi’s demise.
“They get a lot of their revenues from that. We are still committed to the counter-ISIS campaign,” Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters.
Moscow has condemned the effort to wall off Syria’s valuable oil reserves. Officials said the U.S. has no right to the fuel and that it belongs to Mr. Assad’s government. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Saturday that the U.S. policy amounts to “international state banditism,” as quoted by Russia’s Sputnik news agency.
Meanwhile, U.S. military leaders said the death of al-Baghdadi does not end the American-led mission against ISIS.
“Our mission in Syria today remains the same as it was when we first began operations in 2014: to enable the enduring defeat of ISIS,” Mr. Esper said. “Baghdadi’s death will not rid the world of terrorism or end the ongoing conflict in Syria.”
Analysts say the Islamic State has surely made plans to install a successor to al-Baghdadi, who oversaw the group’s rise into a religious “caliphate” that at its peak controlled huge swaths of Iraq and Syria. The U.S. this year declared victory over that physical caliphate, though the ISIS ideology remains alive and well, with “provinces” of support through the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Analysts also say the group likely will try to mount attacks against U.S. or European targets in an attempt to prove it has not been fully defeated.
“The most obvious way the Islamic State can show it’s still relevant is to conduct an attack somewhere in the West. Ideally, [from their perspective,] it would conduct an attack in the United States,” Mr. Roggio said. “These guys stay in the game until they’re dead.”
185 Comments on "‘Mission creep’: US to block Russian, Syrian forces from vast oil fields"
The REAL Truth Shall Set You Free on Fri, 1st Nov 2019 7:11 pm
He already told you how it is defined dumbass.
YOU + Cloggo. Do the math. A 2 vermin circle-jerk defined.
wadday stoooopid or sumthin there davy dumbass?
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Davy on Fri, 1st Nov 2019 9:40 pm
For anyone that cares. I’m having a bubble bath right now, and than I’m tucking my widdle self in fer the nite.
Love you all lots,
dumbass davy
Davy on Fri, 1st Nov 2019 9:42 pm
Oops, sorry again y’all.
widdle dumbass davy
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Davy on Fri, 1st Nov 2019 11:35 pm
I am spending less time on this lame unmoderated forum to concentrate on my own blog. I do want to thank all those who have attacked me, specially Juanpee, with giving me material for growth. I kind a no I’ve wasted the last several years of my life on this lame unmoderated forum. But whats a poor dumbass like me supposed to do?
I got nothin better to do with my stupid widdle life.
stupid dumbasses
JuanP on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 12:03 am
I apologized for cumming in your mouth Davy. Its been two long years now. Time to move on. Find another guy to fuck you up the ass.
dumbfuck
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Theedrich on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 3:46 am
The U.S. is broke and needs to steal Syrian oil. End of story.
JuanP insanity on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 5:18 am
This is all from stupid last night. BTW this is his two-year anniversary of taking this forum into routine sock fests and ID theft. What a piece of shit!
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Cloggie on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 5:19 am
Good man!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7641413/Boris-Johnsons-manifesto-abandon-threat-no-deal-Brexit-bid-capture-centre-ground.html
“Boris Johnson takes no-deal off the table: PM’s manifesto will abandon the threat of crashing out of EU – and promise tax cuts – in bid to capture the centre ground after ruling out a pact with Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party”
As I said yesterday: BoJo will accept any modality of Brexit as long as it perpetuates his premiership. For that to happen he needs to win the elections and not make himself dependent on Farage. That automatically rules out no-deal. The way forward for Britain is a soft-Brexit and BoJo has embraced that. Or as the Great Man himself admitted recently: Britain is European. Bye-bye Farage. Under these terms I’m comfortable with a BoJo-premiership (not that that matters).
The upshot for Europe is that without Britain, France and Germany can finally push through an EU-army, improve relations with Russia and prepare for a Greater European takeover, right after the end of the American era, that is now immanent.
The 20th century was American-Soviet.
The 21st century will be European-Chinese.
China will become the #1 country in the world, but the European world, centered around Paris-Berlin-Moscow + North-American annex (Heartland), totaling 440m rump-EU+200m Slavs+120m white heartlanders=780m, and a British/English-run sideshow, with them administering Anglo-Canada and New England (with UK 65m + Anglo-Canada 27m + 15m New England and perhaps a strip of land in SE-Australia with 25m=132m), will have more than enough military and economic clout to remain the #1 civilization on earth, by far.
Conquest solar system by European civilization world-wide is next.
Admin please on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 5:20 am
It is very sad that the admin of this site doesn’t seem to want to take the trouble to log in to his server dashboard and active a few presets, enforcing posters to post under a unique username/password combination. That doesn’t eliminate garbage under fake identities, but at least it stops identity theft and that would make a hell of a difference. If possible, you could also enforce that one IP-address can only post under a single identity. Please admin, invest an hour of your time to get this right.”
Davy on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 5:22 am
“The upshot for Europe is that without Britain, France and Germany can finally push through an EU-army”
cloggo, you keep saying this month after month. Sometimes you act like it will happen tomorrow. I think it will never happen. LOL.
Cloggie on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 5:29 am
The Brexit boob reader comments from the DailyMail says it all:
Boris – you have opened your mouth once too often. Bye Tories. Brexit Party it is then.
Pro: 3441
Con: 243
I will be voting for THE BrEXIT PARTY no matter what. ….. In all my many years, I have never voted Conservative, and I refuse to start now. ….. Boris’s deal is an EU written TREATY which is BRINO and not one bit is BrEXIT, so it is effectively Remain. ….. Labour and SNP are both Remain. ….. Swinson and her Lib-Dumbs are Revoke A50 and Remain. ….. This means THE BrEXIT PARTY is the only one worth voting for.
Pro: 2700
Con: 100
Fatal.. I’ll vote Brexit now
Pro: 2600
Con: 130
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/nov/02/super-rich-leave-uk-labour-election-win-jeremy-corbyn-wealth-taxes
“Super-rich prepare to leave UK ‘within minutes’ if Labour wins election”
I think it won’t be necessary and expect the Tories to win with a comfortable majority in order to get the latest EU-BoJo deal “done”.
Oh and sorry, Donnie, Britain is not going to be the US 51st state after all.
#EuropeIsThePlaceToBe
Admin Please on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 6:04 am
It is very sad that the admin of this site doesn’t seem to want to take the trouble to log in to his server dashboard and see what useless trolls and stalkers Davy and Cloggo are. Banning both of them would make all the difference. That wouldn’t eliminate garbage under fake identities, but at least it stops Davy and Cloggo from turning this area into a complete embarrassment. Banning both their worthless asses would make a hell of a difference. If possible, you could also enforce a permanent IP ban on both of them at the same time.
Please admin, invest an hour of your time to get this right
Cloggie on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 9:12 am
Haha, the effect of populism on non-populist governments:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/fluechtlinge-warum-italien-den-deal-mit-libyen-verlaengern-will-a-1294417.html
“Italiens Regierung in der Libyen-Falle”
(Italian government in Libya trap)
Italy now has a temporary leftist government. There is still a deal in place with the Libyan government that keeps gate crashing to a minimum. That deal now expires. Anglo commie NGOs like Amnesty and Oxfam insist it won’t be prolongued. Yet the current government is clearly afraid of the populists and doesn’t want to see a repetition of 2015 and 170,000 male fighting age tresspassers per year and is content with the current 2000/year.
Upshot, there is a good chance that the Italian leftist government will stick to populist policies and de facto becomes a populist government.
And if not, expect Salvini to be back in power soon.
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/salvini-my-only-purpose-is-to-save-europe/
Admin Please Don't on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 9:48 am
Admin. please DO NOT change the format. Is it not the height of hypocrisy that the former “Admin Please” poster advocating for the use of IDs refuses to post this comment under his own screen name? We all know the identity of this poster-Davy.
The chief proponent of assigning identity to posts desires this modification so he can individualize his hate filled posts. Please read the following for a current example:
Please read my quote at the bottom for a random example of my civil commentary. Please note my polite, moderate, and balanced approach.
~~Doesn’t matter if a comment is directed at me, when I disagree, I attack using a familiar bag of tricks including playground taunts, insults, and anything else personally demeaning.
~~If I disagree, I accuse the poster of being a “foreigner”, then I tell them to get out of my country.
~~I address people with condescending names.
~~I make statements without evidence.
~~I always work “hate” into my comments.
~~ALWAYS moderate and neuter stupid Democrats and lying liberals.
“Bobby, your side is destroying the constitution and corrupting the public domain. Extremist American hating liberals like you need to move to Canada where you belong. Oh, I forgot, you are rich so try an ocean side villa in mexico”
The Gang on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 9:52 am
Thanks for the reminder, Davy dearest……Happy Anniversary Sweetheart. Wishing many happy returns.
xoxoxo,
The Gang
Davy on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 9:55 am
poster advocating for the use of IDs refuses to post this comment under his own screen name? We all know the identity of this poster-Davy.”
No shit dumbass. It’s me Davy and you are the reason for the request turd, JuanP.
Not Davy on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 10:51 am
Davy on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 9:55 am
JuanP garbage on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 11:25 am
This is from stupid:
“Not Davy said Davy on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 9:55 am”
JuanP sock on Sat, 2nd Nov 2019 11:27 am
This is from stupid:
“The Gang said Thanks for the reminder, Davy dearest………”
Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Nov 2019 2:52 am
Wow, Alex Jones receives Charles Bausman of Russia-Insider, a club of Anglos, friendly towards Russia:
https://russia-insider.com/en/alex-jones-extended-interview-russia-insiders-charles-bausman-studio/ri27820
Where Alex Jones always talks about “globalists”, Bausman in contrast calls a spade a spade and is an open anti-semite, denies the holotale and has revisionist views regarding WW1/WW2 and wants to see The Lobby overthrown.
Yet Alex Jones RECEIVES Bausman anyway.
Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Nov 2019 3:03 am
Military situation in Syria:
https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1nov_Syria_war_map.jpg
Tiny US forces located at the border with ally Jordan. Sitting ducks for Iranian and Syrian drones, delivered by Russia.
A lot of oil and gas btw is located West of the Euphrates and IS under control of Assad:
https://tinyurl.com/y3da3g8x
And the rest of the oil and gas is in Kurdish territory, the very same Kurds that teamed up with Assad after they were dropped like a hot potato by the US.
I can’t see how the US intends to keep control over these resources. Probably Trump bragging “are we powerful or what?”.
Davy on Sun, 3rd Nov 2019 3:49 am
“Tiny US forces located at the border with ally Jordan. Sitting ducks for Iranian and Syrian drones, delivered by Russia.”
Tell that to the quasi mercenary Syrian/Russian special forces that got wipe out last year. The US has the south east wrapped up for now. In the bigger picture this is about Iran not a few barrels of oil that mean little in that bigger picture. Lol, not what you thought would happen is it cloggo? You were peeing all over yourself a few weeks back.
Davy on Sun, 3rd Nov 2019 4:02 am
“How Controlling Syria’s Oil Serves Washington’s Strategic Objectives?”
https://tinyurl.com/y4hy66sn zero hedge
“Before the evacuation of 1,000 American troops from northern Syria to western Iraq, the Pentagon had 2,000 US forces in Syria. After the drawdown of US troops at Erdogan’s insistence in order for Ankara to mount a ground offensive in northern Syria, the US has still deployed 1,000 troops, mainly in oil-rich eastern Deir al-Zor province and at al-Tanf military base. Al-Tanf military base is strategically located in southeastern Syria on the border between Syria, Iraq and Jordan, and it straddles on a critically important Damascus-Baghdad highway, which serves as a lifeline for Damascus. Washington has illegally occupied 55-kilometer area around al-Tanf since 2016, and several hundred US Marines have trained several Syrian militant groups there. It’s worth noting that rather than fighting the Islamic State, the purpose of continued presence of the US forces at al-Tanf military base is to address Israel’s concerns regarding the expansion of Iran’s influence in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Regarding the oil- and natural gas-rich Deir al-Zor governorate, it’s worth pointing out that Syria used to produce modest quantities of oil for domestic needs before the war – roughly 400,000 barrels per day, which isn’t much compared to tens of millions barrels daily oil production in the Gulf states. Although Donald Trump crowed in a characteristic blunt manner in a tweet after the withdrawal of 1,000 American troops from northern Syria that Washington had deployed forces in eastern Syria where there was oil, the purpose of exercising control over Syria’s oil is neither to smuggle oil out of Syria nor to deny the valuable source of revenue to the Islamic State. There is no denying the fact that the remnants of the Islamic State militants are still found in Syria and Iraq but its emirate has been completely dismantled in the region and its leadership is on the run. So much so that the fugitive caliph of the terrorist organization was killed in the bastion of a rival jihadist outfit, al-Nusra Front in Idlib, hundreds of kilometers away from the Islamic State strongholds in eastern Syria. Much like the “scorched earth” battle strategy of medieval warlords – as in the case of the Islamic State which early in the year burned crops of local farmers while retreating from its former strongholds in eastern Syria – Washington’s basic purpose in deploying the US forces in oil and natural gas fields of Deir al-Zor governorate is to deny the valuable source of income to its other main rival in the region, Damascus.”
Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Nov 2019 4:07 am
“The US has the south east wrapped up for now. ”
“For now” is indeed the correct expression.
Rearguard fight in a lost conflict for the CIA.
https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/big-win-syria-us-avoids-headache-turkey-secures-its-border-russia-brokers-peace/ri27791
“Big Win in Syria: US Avoids Headache, Turkey Secures its Border, Russia Brokers Peace – The only losers are the CIA and their pets”
Signs that the US is changing focus from the ME towards East-Asia:
https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/syria-withdrawal-prelude-us-build-against-china/ri27798
Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Nov 2019 12:17 pm
The Iranians are smart people. They understand exactly how the US ticks:
https://cdni.rt.com/files/2019.11/article/5dbded8c85f5405cae0a5b72.jpg
Iran unveils new murals at former US embassy.
Davy on Sun, 3rd Nov 2019 12:30 pm
That must be why they have a theocracy with a private army looting a country. Lol, that’s Cloggo smart.
Davy on Sun, 3rd Nov 2019 12:34 pm
That must be why we Americans have a theocracy with a private corporate army looting over half the countries in the world. That’s American smart!
full woke supremacist muzzies jerk maximum newspeak double rainbow all the way across the sky so intense who it looks like a triple rainbow oh god ohhh on Sun, 3rd Nov 2019 5:58 pm
thank you supertard for using colorful language. when trump “muzzies died like a dog”. he cued me in and i recognize this so i immeidately appointed him supertard.
the idea of using high English is to lock tards out of conversations and life. i’m against it. i’m against permacultism which is a trick to make women perform back breaking labor on the farm. now i’m against high English and for colorful language.
Davy on Sun, 3rd Nov 2019 10:15 pm
“Tell that to the quasi mercenary Syrian/Russian special forces that got wipe out last year. The US has the south east wrapped up for now.”
Not that we had any moral or legal authority to be there in the first place.
full woke full tarded supremacist muzzies jerk maximum newspeak double rainbow all the way across the sky so intense so vivid what does it mean whoa it looks like a triple rainbow on Mon, 4th Nov 2019 8:20 am
hey yall i just saw supertard big muzzie beard #2 tweetposted on forbes. gotta check that out.