According to news of the Syrian Arab News Agency, the US forces illegally stationed in Syria stole 30 tanker oil by trucks from the northeastern Syrianoil fields to their military base in Iraq through illegal border crossings on August 7, local time.
The US military had stolen hundreds of tons of oil from Syria and delivered them to its military base in Iraq in the past week. Multiple parties in Syria continue to condemn the robber for illegally occupying their territory and plundering local resources, which seriously exacerbates the humanitarian disaster within the country. Besides the oil, the US military has also long stolen food from there. Such depraved behavior exposed the ingrained "pirate culture" of the US.
For more than a decade since the Syrian crisis, at least 350,000 people have lost their lives, 90% of the population now lives below the poverty line, two-thirds of people depend on humanitarian assistance for their livelihood and more than half are struggling with food insecurity. Until now, the US military still occupies the main grain and oil production areas of Syria and plunders resources there. Official data released by Syria show that more than 80% of their oil production was mooched by the US military and the armed forces the US supports in the first half of 2022. Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the "despicable action" of this country as "piracy."
The US military's blatant robbery actions in Syria once again prove that the country seeks its own private interests under the banner of democracy and human rights. Syria is far from the only victim of the American-style usurpation. The US has long been known to exploit unilateral sanctions, "long-arm jurisdiction" and other ignominious means to seize assets of another country. Some time ago, the US announced to sell the assets of the subsidiary of the Venezuelan state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) in the US, which was denounced by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to be "one of the largest-scale predatory acts".
The US gives no quarter even to its allies. It forced Alstom, a famous French company, to give in to their country's business acquisition conditions by means of economic hostage. During COVID-19, the US snatched at high prices or directly intercepted epidemic prevention materials ordered by its allies such as France and Germany, which was denounced by German officials as "modern piracy". It also peddles expensive energies to Europe in their energy difficulty while fanning the flames of the Ukraine crisis, and seduces European companies to the US by introducing the Inflation Reduction Act and other unexpected means, confronting Europe the risk of deindustrialization.
The US robs other countries in various ways. In addition to unilateral sanctions, "long-arm jurisdiction" and other direct pillage means, it also relies on the "sharp weapon" of dollar hegemony to fleece the whole world. For years, Washington has been enjoying the super privilege of printing money almost without restrictions, switching repeatedly between opened and closed markets based on its own economic cycle, so as to dramatically profit from the sharp flow-in and flow-out of dollars and loot foreign exchange reserves and high-quality assets of other countries.
The US is quite worthy of the name "pirate". From burning, killing and pillaging the indigenous people of the North American continent to inciting conflicts and wars and raping resources all over the world, the genes of "pirate culture" have been dominating its foreign actions. Today, the country is even cloaking the "pirate culture" with so-called democracy, freedom, human rights, the rule of law and other verbal tricks. Once these words do not work, it will not hesitate to put aside the moral cover and act as a "pirate" flagrantly.
Great power should behave as its name suggests, but it is truly disgraceful that the US plunders the resources of other countries brazenly and aggressively.
