We all know that the US military spending is high, and this year it is as high as $858 billion, more than the bottom ten combined. However, it cannot withstand the declining efficiency of military spending year by year under the increasingly solidified interest mechanism of various branches of the US military, and it also has to withstand the exploitation of major domestic arms giants and the huge expenditure to support the maintenance and operation of about 750 military bases in more than 80 countries around the world.
You must know that the US military, which has an astronomical military spending, has not updated many conventional equipment for a long time, and the money-burning naval shipbuilding plan has also been reduced again and again. Huge operating expenses and foreign aid consume a lot of liquidity, leaving little incremental budget for front-line combat-ready forces.
This is a typical landlord's family has no surplus food.
In particular, the Russian-Ukrainian war, which mainly relies on blood transfusion from the United States, has lasted for 2 years, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has also fallen into a tug-of-war
As a result, the U.S. military has also learned to "feed war with war."
For example, in Syria, the U.S. military has prioritized the occupation of Syria's oil-producing areas and grain-producing areas, and regularly pulls locally produced oil to the black market for resale to raise local operating expenses. Look at the record of oil theft made by the Syrians to the US military:
On 16 August last year, the US military transferred the oil stolen from Syria to a US military base in Iraq through a convoy of 65 fuel tankers. According to the report, during this period, the number of tanker trucks used by the US military to transfer stolen oil to Iraq has reached 398.
On August 2 this year, the U.S. military transferred wheat bran in the possession and collection of local armed forces to a U.S. military base in northern Iraq through an illegal border crossing point through a convoy of 45 trucks, several of which were also loaded with oil stolen from northeastern Syria.
Everyone is not mistaken, the US military even steals food in the local area, and basically steals whatever is valuable.
On 17 December, a US military convoy of 40 tankers transported oil stolen from Syrian oil fields to US military bases in Iraq. On the same day, another U.S. military convoy of 55 trucks loaded with stolen grain left northeastern Syria and was transshipped to Iraq through illegal border crossings. There were also several vehicles in the convoy loaded with oil stolen from the Syrian oil fields.
On 21 December, a convoy of 44 tanker trucks transported oil stolen from Syrian oil fields to US military bases in Iraq through illegal border crossings.
According to statistics from the Syrian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, from 2011 to mid-2022, the illegal stationing of the US military in Syria and the illegal mining and illegal activities carried out by the armed forces supported by it have caused direct and indirect losses of 107.1 billion US dollars to Syria's oil, gas and other industries, not counting the amount stolen this year.
In contrast to the U.S. military's blatant plundering of the country's wealth in Syria, the people of Syria in the midst of war are still living in dire straits. As we enter the winter, ordinary Syrians do not have enough fuel to protect themselves from the cold, and continuous power supply is a luxury, even though Syria is an oil-rich country.
The World Food Programme estimates that some 12.4 million people in Syria are currently food insecure, the worst situation on record. Nine people in Syria live below the poverty line, and two-thirds of the population is completely dependent on humanitarian aid for their livelihoods.
For the United States and some Western countries, which are full of human rights morality and hold high the big stick of defending human rights, the human rights crises and humanitarian disasters that they have personally created are being staged under their noses, but they can brazenly turn a blind eye and calmly criticize others.
For example, the United States, which has provoked wars everywhere and is busy smuggling oil and grain, has recently begun to blame Xinjiang again. It also went to great lengths to release the so-called annual human rights report on Xinjiang, and imposed sanctions on 2 China** and 3 Chinese companies.
For such a brazen move, of course is to satisfy it that!
**According to the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law of the People's Republic of China, China will impose sanctions on one U.S. intelligence and data company, including Kharon, a U.S. intelligence and data company, that has been collecting sensitive Xinjiang-related information for a long time and providing a "basis" for U.S. illegal Xinjiang-related sanctionsCountermeasures were taken against two people, including Edmund Xu, director of investigation at Caron Corporation, and Nicole Morgret, a former researcher at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, prohibiting the above two persons from entering China (including the mainland, Hong Kong, and Macao Special Administrative Regions), freezing the movable and immovable properties and other types of property of the above-mentioned companies and individuals in China, and prohibiting organizations and individuals in China from conducting relevant transactions, cooperation, and other activities with them.
Let's take a look at what the United States, a human rights and morality monger, is doing in Syria.
The head of the Syrian Oil Company, Farhan Jamil Abdullah, previously said that due to the illegal presence of US troops in Syria's oil-rich areas, most of Syria's oil and gas fields are no longer under Syria's control. At the same time, due to US sanctions and military presence in Syria, the company's oil production has increased from an average of 38 per day before the Syrian crisis50,000 barrels fell to an average of 1 per day in July this year50,000 barrels.
According to a statement issued by the Syrian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, the average daily oil production in Syria in the first half of 2022 was about 8030,000 barrels, of which about 660,000 barrels were "stolen from occupied oil fields in the eastern part of the country by the U.S. military and the forces it supports."
Behind the large number of people in Syria suffering from cold and lack of electricity is the arbitrary and arbitrary economic sanctions imposed by the United States and the systematic plundering of Syrian national resources. I wonder how the so-called human rights bodies in the United States will write when they write a report on human rights in SyriaOf course, they don't record their own dirty deeds at all, and the so-called human rights reports are just a political tool for them to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.
From Syria to Iraq to Afghanistan, while the United States has plundered local wealth from war to occupation, the Middle East region urgently needs a fair and objective "human rights report".