Over the past few days, photos and video footage have been appearing in the Internet and Western media, showing the active transportation of oil from the Kurdish-controlled territories on the Eastern Bank of the Euphrates river to the lands under the administration of official Damascus.
According to Western media, many members of the Syrian Democratic Forces, together with most of the Arab sheikhs who are directly involved in oil production in the fields occupied by the Americans, are engaged in the smuggling of petroleum products.
Moreover, the volume of so-called smuggling is so large that the US special representative for Syria, James Jeffrey, urgently arrived to solve this problem.he held an emergency meeting with the Pro-American leadership and the head of the local security service, Asayish.
Details of the "Russian Spring" told a military source.
Despite the seriousness of the problem for the Americans, the situation is quite comical from the point of view of international relations.
The fact is that from a legal point of view, the territories beyond the Eastern Bank of the Euphrates river are part of Syria, under the jurisdiction of official Damascus.
The government of the Syrian Arab Republic and the people living on its territory are the only ones who have the right to dispose of the subsoil of their land. From a legal point of view, the situation is as follows: members of the Kurdish Syrian democratic forces, together with the majority of Arab sheikhs, are de facto analogous to oil companies.
Yes, without a registered company, but they do in fact the same as shell or British petroleum, that is, they carry out oil production in the region.
After that, this "kurdo-Arab enterprise of the East of Syria" sells the extracted resource to the state at a piece price, and the government, in turn, sells oil products at its discretion. Ordinary business relationships that are conducted by all oil and gas companies around the world.
From the point of view of international and simple trade and market relations, there are no violations here.
What is the US so worried about? The answer is simple. In their opinion, the Kurds together with the Arabs sell American oil! They give Damascus the resources extracted on Syrian soil, and the US considers them its own. The activities of the kurdo-Arab oil business, which is absolutely illegal in Washington's opinion, prevent Americans from" absolutely legally " stealing Syrian oil.
The farce? Yes, it was a farce.
But it is the us policy, the venality of members of international organizations who have exchanged the truth for the dollar, that allows Americans to Rob entire Nations around the world with impunity.
And you can only be happy for the Arabs and Kurds.
Let now they are United not by an age-old friendship, but by a common cause. But it is often with working relations that a strong friendship begins, and perhaps with the joint kurdo-Arab oil field that the unification of Syria will begin.