The idea that a king or monarch or president has the ability to alter any physical setting and circumstance is ridiculous. The us has been reacting more or less to the middle east turmoil ever since the cold war. And in syria in the end not even that.
Events can happen outside the influence and outside of control of the most powerful nation on the planet. This paranoid "a power must be behind" it - is limiting the perception- that there is nothing there, just running out resources, human overpopulation and war and chaos and players stirring the pot of indigestible soups in the hopes that useful float some may come up with the bodies.
" The us has been reacting more or less to the middle east turmoil ever since the cold war."
Yeah, that is why the U.S. is still occupying Syria and stealing Syrian oil. Americans do love to pat themselves on the back when they invade other nations for resources.
There isn't an eye roll emoji big enough for this. With fracking, American domestic oil production is way up. It would make zero sense to go halfway around the world to steal Syrian oil, even if that were happening.
There isn't an eye roll emoji big enough for not understanding that stealing local oil is far cheaper than transporting it for supplying the vast number of U.S. forces in the middle-east.
You will never hear it from American media except for the one time they accidentally mentioned the U.S. contractor in charge of the occupied Syrian oil wells. I suggest speaking to a Syrian national - the theft of oil by the U.S. is a well-known fact there. It will never make it to the Western news except as propaganda to support the Kurds.
I don't have any problem with the Kurds selling their oil to finance their fight against Assad. He's a murderous tyrant and if it weren't for Turkey's objections Kurdistan would already be an independent state.
As for "well-known facts" on the Syrian street, it's a "well-known fact" among Americans that their economy is trapped a disastrous inflationary spiral, it just happens not be a true fact.
Good job moving the goalposts now that you have acknowledged the theft of Syrian oil. You have now excused it as there is a "murderous tyrant". Standard NATO talking point for getting rid of anyone "we don't like". That "murderous tyrant" has murdered FAR fewer people than nearly all U.S. Presidents and was the bulwark that stopped the genocide of Syrians by Obama-Hillary sponsored "moderate rebels" - the folks who kept women chained in the basements of Aleppo. And who were busy slaughtering Christians and forcing their children to convert to Islam.
The vast majority of the same "moderate rebels" who metastasized into ISIS and then decided Syria was too tough of a nut to crack and Iraq looked far sweeter for their caliphate. All equipped with shiny-new American wargear. The same playbook played earlier in Afghanistan with Bin Laden repeated with the same disastrous consequences. I strongly suggest speaking to native Syrians, especially one from a minority religion, instead of getting a horrendous education through cherry-picked American propaganda.
Of-course, there are very special and differing American standards applied to so-called "murderous tyrants" - the Sauds get a free pass even if their citizens have lesser freedoms with no diversity permitted in religion.
Is it "theft" if the people living there sell their natural resources?
There's a huge amount of injustice in the world. The Saudi regime is awful, too. You're not going to convince me that Assad is a great guy, but also I'm not in charge of US foreign policy and my side just lost bigly.
You'll probably get the chance to see what an isolationist US looks like. Trump's impulses are to leave everyone in the mideast to their own devices and it's hard to even say he's wrong.
