Boil your steak, keep US forces at bay

US troops stationed in Syria looted hundreds of metric tons of crude oil in Iraq on Sunday. This was the third time they did so this year. Earlier, the troops had mobilized 73 oil tankers on April 9 and 23 tankers on April 3 to transport their ill-gotten gains. In 2022, the Syrian government said US troops pillaged 66,000 barrels of oil every day, which is about 83 percent of Syria's total oil production.

It is anybody's guess why the US went into Iraq, Libya or anywhere in the Middle East and North Africa. That it is openly stealing oil from Syria, however, takes the cake.

Since the civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, the US and its allies have been actively intervening to pull down the government there. US warplanes have been bombing Syrian government forces, supplying arms and ammunition to the opposition forces, and pouring scorn at Syrian diplomats in international forums.