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How “difficult” is the situation of the US military in Syria for food and smuggling? |United States|Syria|U.S. Army_Sina News

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Original title: How “distressed” is the U.S. military’s situation in Syria for grabbing food and smuggling?

  [文/ 观察者网专栏作者 尤金少将]

On July 4, 2021, a piece of news appeared in the headlines of multiple non-Western international media——

A US military convoy consisting of 45 trucks loaded with wheat and a tanker drove out of the Ramanan area of ​​Hassek Province, Syria, and then went to northern Iraq via Walid, where it was directly realized.

The army of the “Democracy Beacon” actually confiscated peasants’ wheat from Syria in broad daylight and shipped it to other areas for sale in order to make a profit? !

But this is not really news. On July 3 and July 1, local media had reported that 37 and 22 grain trucks of the U.S. military went to Iraq through the port. If you want, you can set the clock of history forward a few months, or even years, and you will find that the Americans and their high (xiao) gui (shun) partners (sun) companions (zi) in Syria , Has been carrying out the evil deeds of destroying and plundering food.

Report screenshot: CCTV military

The evil deeds of the Americans and puppets did not only come from their own moral flaws and greed for wealth, but were complementary to the long-term policies of the United States, and these policies were in line with Syria’s food production structure and the basic national conditions before the war. It’s not unrelated.

You should know that Syria was once one of the birthplaces of civilization where mankind first tried farming and harvested food. But in the third Middle East war in 1967, Syria lost its important food and water production area-the Golan Heights. This strategic loss caused Syria to lose almost half of its high-quality arable land. In the following years, Syria once became a net importer of food.

A large number of food imports have seriously consumed Syria’s foreign exchange and affected the development of its national economy. In order to solve this problem, Syria has been building large-scale water conservancy facilities throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and has barely met its own food needs through these facilities.

However, after all, Syria is a desert-covered country, and the distribution of water resources essential to food growth is extremely uneven. There are only four large-scale agricultural production areas across the country-Idlib, Bab and the front line of Hasakah Province. The northern and northeastern grain-producing areas of Latakia, the central grain-producing areas around Lake Assad, the eastern production areas from the Euphrates River to Deir ez-Zor, and the Golan Heights north to the provincial capital of Homs and Damascus The southern grain-producing area to the south.

Syria map (data map/map nest)Syria map (data map/map nest)

The more concentrated the production areas, the easier it is to destroy them, and the easier it is to cut off the passage from the main grain-producing areas to the grain-consuming areas. After the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, the rebels backed by the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, and France once concentrated control of almost all the channels connecting the main food production areas, and used superior forces to besiege and contain the Syrian regular troops who were defending the isolated city islands to obstruct them. Recovering grain-producing areas and communication lines, and constantly plundering grain and oil to fill their own pockets.

While frantically plundering Syria’s resources, the Americans did not forget to pack themselves: On April 15th and 19th, 2013, the Americans “gave up generously” and shipped tens of thousands of tons of wheat to Lebanon and Turkey, and Provide “help” to “all cities and villages” in Syria through “reliable channels for democrats” in order to buy people’s hearts.

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According to the original plan of the Americans, through this combination of hard and soft strategies, by the winter of 2013, the food stocks in the areas controlled by the Syrian government will be exhausted, and by the winter of 2014 to the spring of 2015, there will be no more hungry urban residents. Support Assad and his army, Syria will completely surrender. The Western puppets and the U.S. government, which control Syria’s domestic grain production areas and possess a large amount of grain, will play the role of “savior” through the grain in their hands and completely control Syria.

Food has become the “weapon” that Americans and puppets rely on most. More than 500,000 terrorists and hundreds of thousands of Syrian troops armed to the teeth are also fighting between every wheat field and every mill.

But the Americans and the puppets were wrong, and the Syrians were stronger than they thought.

In Aleppo prison and Deir ez-Zor fortress, soldiers and armed residents will never take a step back even if they can only eat one biscuit a day. Outside of Syria, Iran, China, and Russia actively mediate their attacks. Ships of flour and rice are continuously transported into Latakia under the escort of the fleet, and entered under the escort of motorized troops. Various cities. Instead of starving to death, the soldiers and civilians in the city became stronger day by day, and finally entered the counter-offensive stage from 2015 to 2016 and began to retake territory from terrorists.

Syrian government forces (data map/CCTV)Syrian government forces (data map/CCTV)

The Americans and puppets who realized that the situation was not good immediately changed their strategies.

In June 2016, they began to force farmers to harvest wheat from the lost control area at gunpoint, and then fled and threw the hungry people without food to the Syrian government who came to regain the lost land. After all, they are the government and will not ignore their citizens. At the same time, the shrinking rebels have also begun to wreak havoc on water conservancy and power facilities. Many canals have been blown up, pumps and power generation equipment have been demolished and sold, and food production in related areas has been drastically reduced.

With the Turks going south and the Kurdish puppets raised by the Americans, almost all the grain-producing areas in the north and northeast of Syria have fallen into the enemy’s hands. By the summer of 2017, the dam from northern Assad to the Revolutionary City was also occupied by Kurdish forces, and the central grain-producing area was reduced by half.

At about the same time, the Syrian army also began to advance eastward to relieve Deir ez-Zor and advance northward. The Americans immediately threw bombs on the villages along the Euphrates River on the grounds of destroying IS, destroying local farmland and irrigation facilities. When the Syrian army liberated Deir ez-Zor to advance north in mid-July, the U.S. directly ordered the Kurdish army to open the dam on Lake Assad, recklessly open the sluice gate and release the water, while preventing the Syrian army from crossing the river north. Let the entire riverside agricultural area become a piece of land, and there is no harvest of autumn grain…

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By the end of the main fighting at the end of 2017, the Syrian government forces basically controlled all the central, eastern, and southern agricultural areas except the area north of Lake Assad, but the northern and northeastern areas were puppets of Americans and Turkish troops. Partitioning is also an indisputable fact.

In 2018, the Americans also tried to flood the eastern agricultural area. Because the Syrian engineers completed the reconstruction of the local agricultural and water conservancy facilities, it is impossible for such operations to achieve good results close to the previous ones. The Americans turned to crazy water storage reduction. The method of river flow hits local agriculture and uses airplanes to carry out small-scale arson during the dry season.

Of course, at this time Americans also have to face a new problem, and that is the human problem.

As government forces regained most of the country, mercenaries and extremists felt hopeless and began to disobey orders and become warlord. There is no room for Kurds in northeastern Syria, and ethnic minority regimes are not welcome in the eastern region. In addition, these puppets are not honest. They often expropriate food and even directly sell the food provided by the Americans to the black market. Therefore, the local authorities are very resistant to these puppets’ excessive expropriation actions:

In the summer of 2018, in the middle of two pastures in the eastern region of Raqqa, Kurds and Arabs in the “Syrian Democratic Army” fostered by the Americans set up 8 toll stations on a 7-kilometer road to collect fees from the shepherds. lamb. The incident aroused great anger among the locals, and eventually turned into an uprising that burned down the toll booths. Although the operation eventually ended with the US army incendiary burning bombs to destroy the shepherd’s village, the locals have already begun to flee to the Syrian government-controlled area.

The terrible situation has also made the US military finally switch to a more extreme and direct way of ruling.

The U.S. military began to carry out sabotage activities in eastern Syria, maintaining its reign of terror with food and guns. They ordered the servant army to expropriate all local food and only provide the local people with subsistence rations for their own assistance, in order to maintain control of these areas.

Because the work efficiency of the servants is really bad, and they are particularly good at performing “Fire Dragon Burning Warehouse”-from May 20 to June 1, 2019, al-Tabqah, Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor, Kobani, Hasakah, Qamishli and Thousands of hectares of land in Manbij and other places were engulfed by fire; on June 3, Kurds caused another fire when they forced food near Raqqa, and claimed that it was arson by the intelligence services of Syrian and Turkish forces. Since then, related actions have been transferred. Responsible by the U.S. military and the mercenaries directly under them.

Grain fields were burned down (data map / Haval News Agency)Grain fields were burned down (data map / Haval News Agency)

In order to prevent Syrians from reclaiming land and “secretly” storing food, the Americans began to destroy fields in southern Hasakah and northern Euphrates. Some of these orders were even issued by former US President Trump himself. The Turks followed suit and devastated the northern and western regions of Hasak Province.

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However, there are not only foreign occupying forces and their puppets in northeastern Syria. Syrian government forces are still deployed in the area around the city of Hassek. The locals refused to compromise and pay food to the Americans, and were always ready to welcome the government forces who came to liberate themselves.

In order to force these rebels to surrender, on May 17, 2020, the United States began to use helicopters to throw hot flame bombs into the agricultural area of ​​the southern Hasakah city to implement large-scale arson, and cut off the water supply to prevent local residents from extinguishing fire activities. The farmland in the southern part of the country was almost burnt up. On the 19th, farmland in Hama, an area controlled by the Syrian government, was also shelled and set on fire.

The Turkish army, which saw the actions of the Americans, seemed to have opened up, and set fire to the occupied Syrian agricultural area and the nearby Syrian army-controlled area in June of that year. According to incomplete statistics, in the Ras Al Ain area in the northern Hasakah province alone, about 1 million square meters of wheat fields have been burned by the Americans and Turks. In the agricultural area near Jordan in the south, farmland fires have often occurred since the autumn of 2019, which may also be related to terrorist activities supported by the Americans.

Of course, the Americans are somewhat aware of this: Simply destroying Syrian agricultural production areas will not force the Syrians to yield. As long as the flour from China, Russia and Iran can still enter the port, all attacks will be futile.

By 2021, the U.S. military has been in a state of contraction, and their large-scale land destruction operations have been transformed into smaller scale and less meaningful food plunder operations.

According to reports from spies and the media: On January 13, 50 carts of wheat collected from Hassek were taken away. On March 12, another 38 carts loaded with barley entered Iraqi territory through the Syrian Walid border crossing. It took 2 days. Then came 17 trucks, which exceeded 200 at the end of March. On April 1st and 12th, another 30 trucks of wheat were transported to the Iraqi black market. On May 11, there were 27 vehicles. So far, at least 359 trucks of grain had been smuggled out of Syria by the US military before the winter wheat was harvested. It should be noted that this is the observed quantity, not the total quantity.

The food that Syrian farmers worked so hard to grow eventually turned into banknotes in the pockets of the US military. This obviously cannot help them win the war, at best it just tightens the belts on the stomachs of the army and bureaucrats.

Speaking of, this kind of eagerness to realize the looted resources is not known to the Americans themselves. Anyway, I seem to have seen it somewhere in 1945. However, I also believe what the guerrillas said at that time: The blockade is getting tighter and tighter, indicating that the end of the devil is about to come. When the U.S. military has no face to pillage even this petty profit, how long do you think they can maintain their rule in the occupied territories?

Editor in charge: Zhu Xuesen SN240

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