The truth is | It is not enough to instigate a proxy war, the United States has "knocked the bone and sucked the marrow" of Syria

Source: Overseas Network

On August 9, the Chinese Rights Study Released a study entitled "Serious Human Rights Violations Committed by the United States in the Middle East and Other Places" to expose the direct, serious and lasting harm caused by the United States to the right to life and the right to life of people in the Middle East, including Syria.

Since the outbreak of the civil war in Syria in 2011, the U.S. military involvement has killed at least 350,000 people and displaced more than 12 million people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 70% of Syrian refugees live in poverty, more and more children are reduced to child labor, and the Syrian refugee problem has been called "the biggest refugee crisis of our time" by the United Nations. Behind the shocking tragedy, the United States cannot escape its blame. The United States instigated a proxy war in Syria, and a variety of military projects, operations, and plans brought nightmares to the local people again and again.

A few days ago, the US investigation website "intercepted" and exposed the "127e" project. According to reports, between 2017 and 2020, the United States conducted at least 23 proxy wars around the world through a program called "127e", of which at least 14 occurred in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region. The United States provides weapons, training, and intelligence to foreign militaries to attack U.S. enemies. According to retired four-star General Joseph Waterer, who has led the Army's Special Operations Forces and Central Command, the United States has carried out the "127e" project in Syria, and the specific name and specific details have not yet been revealed.

But it is clear that the United States intervened much earlier in Syria. Shortly after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, the United States carried out two separate programs to support Syrian opposition forces: Operation Timber Sycamore, run by the CIA, and Syrian Train and Equip Program, run by the Pentagon.

In 2013, the CIA launched a campaign code-named "Sycamore" that targeted the then-Syrian Assad government in an attempt to oust it. The operation cost more than $1 billion and the New York Times called it "one of the most expensive covert operations in the history of the CIA."

How is this action carried out? The Washington Post reported that the "Supreme Military Council" established by the Syrian opposition is the main object of support of the United States, and the "Sycamore" operation is to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Syrian opposition. The U.S. Daily Beast website reported that as of 2017, at least 50 opposition parties were supported by the United States. The United States and its allies provide weapons to the opposition, and the training of the opposition is led by a small team of operatives in the CIA's special operations unit. The New York Times reported that the CIA trained the opposition to use AK-47s as well as anti-tank missiles.

How effective has this operation been? The Assad government remained firm, and the operation was naturally a complete failure. This failed operation has also had many absurd consequences. First, many of the weapons provided to the opposition appeared on the black market. According to The New York Times, the weapons were systematically stolen and resold to arms dealers through the black market. According to USA Today, some weapons, including anti-tank weapons, were eventually sold to the extremist group Islamic State. In the end, the people involved were only fired, and even allowed to keep the proceeds of theft. Second, some U.S.-backed opposition groups have been transformed into extremist groups. As recently as September 2013, Syria's 11 largest opposition forces, including some with U.S. support, swore allegiance to al-Qaida, the Washington Post reported.

Originally intended to overthrow the Assad government, not only did this goal not succeed, but it gave a lot of blood to terrorist organizations, and the opposition in the United States became louder and louder. In the end, Operation Sycamore came to an end in 2017, and some U.S. experts said they were "not surprised."

With the CIA's operation failing so badly, what about the Pentagon's Training and Equipment Program? The result was even more failure. Launched in 2014, the program, like Operation Sycamore, is to provide training and weapons to the Syrian opposition selected by the United States, only this time the United States claims to be "counterterrorism" and also takes into account the possibility of weapons flowing into the hands of terrorists. According to the Associated Press, U.S. administration officials say the U.S. is increasingly confident in distinguishing between "moderate" opposition and "extreme" opposition. But is that really the case? According to a 2015 report by French television 24, the Pentagon acknowledged that a group of Syrian opposition personnel trained by the United States had given equipment such as ammunition and trucks provided by the United States to al-Qaida affiliates in exchange for safe passage in the relevant areas.

The United States manipulates proxies to attack the Syrian government, but these proxies are still fighting among themselves, further proving that what the United States is doing is to stir up Syria more and more. According to the Los Angeles Times, soldiers trained by the CIA and soldiers trained by the Pentagon repeatedly shot at each other when they met in sensitive areas. It can be said that neither Operation Sycamore nor the Training and Equipment Program, nor the U.S. proxies propped up through the 127e project, have brought peace and security to Syrian civilians. Just on August 2, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Army abducted two children under the age of 13 in a rural area in the eastern part of Syria's Deir Ezzor province and took them to a compulsory recruitment camp; On the 6th, in the western countryside of the province, they attempted to take a young man and send him to a compulsory conscription camp, eventually injuring two civilians.

It has caused endless pain to the Syrians, but the United States itself has "harvested" a lot. Syria's oil minister has said the United States controls 90 percent of Syria's oil resources. In 2021, Syria's oil production is about 85,900 barrels per day, of which about 70,000 barrels were plundered by the United States and its supported opposition forces, and less than 16,000 barrels were used to supply the Syrian domestic market. Middle Eastern media assessed that the economic losses of the country's oil industry since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis have reached $100.5 billion. On August 5 this year, the U.S. military used a convoy of 60 vehicles, including tanker trucks and trucks, to transport oil stolen from syria's northeastern provinces to Iraq through the illegal border crossing between Syria and Iraq. In addition to oil, the United States does not even spare Syria's wheat, and it is also a big theft, even if more than half of syria's population is unable to get food security.

From illegal troops to proxies, the United States is trying to keep the tragedy in Syria spreading indefinitely and never ending. Knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow and harming others and benefiting themselves is the truth of American hegemony.

(Text/He Suoyi)