US hypocritical in maintaining Syria sanctions

"We are providing humanitarian assistance to help Syrian earthquake victims. We are their leading humanitarian donor since the start of the war — the US has provided more than $15 billion to the Syrian people in Syria and the region. These funds go to the Syrian people, not the regime." This is what US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Twitter on Thursday. But he failed to say how the sanctions the US has imposed against Syria for decades have contributed to the misery of the nation.

It is the US sanctions that have made it extremely hard for Syrian people to conduct rescue work without the necessary tools after the earthquake.

It is the civil war, which Washington instigated and in which it has supported opposition forces in their attempt to overthrow the Syrian government, that has caused years of misery and suffering for the Syrian people. It is estimated that about half a million civilians have been killed since the war began in 2011.