Syrian Hmong

[Dill]

(11-14-2019, 10:28 AM)GMDino Wrote:

If Trump proceeds with his plan to pump Syrian oil for US benefit, it would be the war crime of pillage under Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. https://t.co/LehEHRCNEk

— Andrew Stroehlein (@astroehlein) November 14, 2019

As I understood it, US control was justified

1) to keep the oil from going to ISIS, and

2) to fund the Kurds operating with the US in Eastern Syria.


I have not heard yet that the oil is for "the US."  There would be big problems if the US started siphoning off--robbing--the resources of another country simply because we have the power to do so.

That was what the Nazis and Japanese did when the others' sovereign territory fell into their hands. Trump has no grasp either of international law or the conception of universal human rights and territorial sovereignty underpinning it, so it's possible he could be trying squeeze Syrian oil to "pay for ISIS" or some such. But is there any factual evidence he is doing that at the moment?