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According to a report by the global network on January 9, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder recently said that the United States has no plans to withdraw its troops from Iraq for the time being. The reason why the US Department of Defense stressed that it will not withdraw troops from Iraq is mainly because of two reasons, on the one hand, since the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, due to the United States' strong support for Israel, the US military in Iraq has been frequently attacked, and there have been personnel **, just on the 6th, there are drones carrying bombs, attacking the US military base in Harrir in northern Iraq, in the foreseeable future, as long as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continues, I am afraid that the US troops in Iraq will not live in peace.
On the other hand, Iraq** demanded that the United States withdraw its troops. According to a Reuters report on January 5, Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Sudani said that Iraq would form a committee to "prepare to end the mission of the US-led international coalition in Iraq." In a statement, the prime minister's office said that "*date is being set" to launch a committee with the participation of both the United States and Iran "to coordinate the relevant [withdrawal] matters" and "permanently end the presence of international coalition forces in Iraq." An Iraqi**, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the committee "will include representatives of the international coalition forces".
It is against this background that the Pentagon has stated that it will "never withdraw its troops" and stressed that it is "not aware" of Iraq's notification of the withdrawal of US troops. Then the question arises: Since Iraq is being beaten every day, and the host country Iraq has an obvious intention of "expelling customers," why does the United States still stay in Iraq with a dead face?In fact, the reason is very simple, it is for the sake of the "oil strategy" of the United States, to put it bluntly, that is, to station troops in Iraq, control oil exports in the Middle East, and rivet the binding relationship between oil and the dollar, not to "resell" Iraqi oil.
Some people may say, then why does the United States still use tanker trucks to steal Syrian oil?The reason is not the same. In fact, the United States itself is really not greedy for this oil money, but it is unnecessary to pay tens of millions of dollars every month, and it is impossible for the oil fields in eastern Syria to be handed over to the pro-Russian Assad, under such circumstances, the US military and the Kurds are "smuggling and selling" Syrian oil, which is different from the US oil strategy.
For the sake of "anti-terrorism". In the past, Iraq was ruled by the strongman Saddam Hussein and had a strong **, so it was able to suppress various tribes to "obey", but now Iraq** is purely a loose **, and if the US military leaves, it will immediately become a hotbed of terrorism. Of course, the United States is the "source of terror", and ISIS is the masterpiece of the United States, but terrorist organizations are also divided into factions, some are anti-American, some are controlled by India, and some are controlled by the United States, and the United States will not allow the re-emergence of "anti-American" terrorist organizations in Iraq.
It is to contain Iran. Iran, Iraq, and Syria form the so-called "Shiite arc", and Iraq is precisely the middle ground of this "crescent", and the control of Iraq can effectively prevent Iran's influence from expanding westward to Syria. And judging from the current "weakness" of Iraq, I am afraid that as soon as the US military leaves, Iraq will immediately become Iran's "sphere of influence", because there are a large number of "pro-Iranian" Shiite forces in Iraq, and they are disappointed and dissatisfied with their own country, and they will turn their allegiance to Tehran.
Therefore, it is precisely because of the above-mentioned reasons that although the US troops stationed in Iraq are "bombed every day" and look at the "complexion" of Iraq, they receive "eviction orders" every once in a while, but they are still in Iraq and do not leave. Of course, there is really nothing that can be done about it, and this time the "eviction of customers" is probably also for the domestic show, and the US military will not leave, and they will not dare to "drive people".