{"id":347500,"date":"2018-02-09T14:55:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=347500"},"modified":"2018-02-09T14:55:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:55:34","slug":"u-s-not-globally-condemned-military-occupation-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/u-s-not-globally-condemned-military-occupation-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is U.S. not globally condemned for its military occupation of Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

On February 8th, at the U.N., the Russian Government, through its U.N. Representative Vasily Nebenzia, said against the U.S. Government\u2019s forces in Syria,<\/span><\/a> \u201cThey are in fact illegally in Syria, nobody called them there, they constantly assert that they are fighting there against international terrorism, but we see that they go beyond this framework.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

No public response has yet been issued by the U.S. Government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, the U.N. Security Council was presented on February 8th with a resolution condemning the bombing on February 6th of the Russian trade mission in Syria\u2019s capital of Damascus, and this condemnation was blocked by the U.S. and UK delegations, which said that there wasn\u2019t enough \u201cinformation\u201d about the event to condemn it.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Russia and Syria say that the attack had been done by jihadists, \u201cterrorists,\u201d by a shell fired by armed groups who were deployed in the eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus, as part of repeated attacks on the Russian Embassy in Damascus, but the U.S. and UK refused to condemn the attack, regardless. Consequently, the U.N. Security Council\u2019s press office was blocked from issuing a statement to the press saying that the Council condemned the attack on the Russian facility in Damascus. <\/span><\/p>\n

Not only is the U.S. trying to take over part of sovereign Syrian territory (using Al Qaeda and Kurdish forces as their boots-on-the-ground to do it), but the U.S. and its UK ally are, essentially, supporting Al Qaeda allied jihadists who shell the Russian trade mission in Damascus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though the U.S. Congress has not yet declared war against Syria and against Russia, the U.S. Executive branch, the Commander-in-Chief or President of the United States, has placed the U.S. Government at war against both Russia and Syria, and America\u2019s allies are not expresssing disgust at this act by their ally, which violates not only the U.S. Constitution but international law.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meet the new Adolf Hitler: Donald Trump. Is every other government headed by a Neville Chamberlain of today? If none condemn the U.S. Government, then isn\u2019t it undeniable?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse On February 8th, at the U.N., the Russian Government, through its U.N. Representative Vasily Nebenzia, said against the U.S. Government\u2019s forces in Syria, \u201cThey are in fact illegally in Syria, nobody called them there, they constantly assert that they are fighting there against international terrorism, but we see that they go beyond this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":286526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,519],"tags":[30,1036,96,535,524,754,49,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-347500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-newswire","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-cover-up","12":"tag-global-news","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-syria","15":"tag-usa-news","16":"tag-white-house","17":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}