Crushing US Sanctions to Take Effect on Syria This Week
Regime-change war was defeated so here is Empire's revenge
New US sanctions on Syria are set to take effect Wednesday as the Arab nation is already struggling to rebuild from the nine-year civil war that shattered the country. US sanctions are already impeding the reconstruction effort, and some fear the new measures will only make a bad situation worse for Syrian civilians.
US and EU sanctions on Syria have already frozen the assets of the state and hundreds of companies and individuals. The sanctions also prohibit Americans from exporting anything to Syria and bar US citizens from investing in the country.
The new sanctions will give the US the power to freeze the assets of any individual, regardless of nationality, for doing business in Syria.
The new sanctions will also target people dealing with Russian and Iranian entities in Syria.
The looming sanctions have already caused many to pull out of investments in Syria, which is mostly to blame for the recent collapse of Syria’s currency.
Lebanon, Jordan, and other regional neighbors are discouraged from joining the reconstruction effort since it can cause targeting by the US.
US lawmakers are expected to announce who the new sanctions will be targeting on Wednesday. The sanctions are permitted under the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, which was incorporated into the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.
Even Washington’s Kurdish allies in northeast Syria are worried about the new sanctions. An official from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spoke with Voice of America about the Caesar Act and warned it could impede their ability to fight ISIS. “As Caesar sanctions are about to go into effect, the status of northeastern Syria must be taken into consideration especially when these sanctions might affect the battle to fight IS,” the SDF official said.
A group of Syrian-Americans demonstrated against the new sanctions in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Sunday. “When you try to destroy the economy of a country, it affects the people,” said Bashar Hajal, of Allentown. “It’s a contradiction if the main purpose of the Caesar Act is to protect civilians. It’s our homeland. And seeing it collapse like this is just devastating. We cannot stand by.”
Source: Antiwar.com
Meanwhile utter silence from the other two ‘super powers’! US violations against the UN Charter, International law should warrant a hearing at the UN but just like Libya, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan those ‘super powers’ are mute.
The US has no reason to kill off Syrians by using cruel and horrifying tactics like the awful sanctions..
except for the fact that Israel would like Syria ‘put away’ and not be in their tear through the Middle East! The United States has enough internal problems to fix – their economy is down the toilet but
they spend $ Millions on ruining other countries’ economies….they are monsters with an agenda to rule the world…but it just isn’t going to happen if China and Russia step in to foil their crimes in progress…
When the petrodollar goes down, China and Russia will do well with their gold-backed currencies.
Russia hasn’t got anything to do well with
Its a tin pot waste land,soon all its oil and gas infrastructure will start to sink into the cold slush that was once rock hard permafrost,so they won’t even have that to earn anything from
Gold,pathetic,meh
Still mad that your deranged declining pathetic mafia state can be turned into a big parking lot by that country? Pathetic American retard.
Death Cult USA strikes again.
Spreading death, destruction misery and mayhem across the planet.
Doing the anti-Christ’s work.
Assad destroyed his own country,he and Putin should have thought about that
Oh and i see Putin never took any of the millions of refugees did he!
I hope the pair of them rot in hell,not only have they devastated Syria but they’ve essentially exported Syrian citizens who they cynically believe others should now pay for
I’d slam the Putin regime as well,although Putin’s running a criminal oligarchy,so it’ll not be long before it starts to go wrong in Russia
as your supervisor I MUST inform you that you still have 999 posts to go before you get paid. So you better start posting faster.
Putin didn’t cause those refugees, that’s the work of the sadistic criminaliteit US-regime.
American sanctions mean little to the Syrian economy which is more attached to Russia.
When Turkey bought the S-400 missile system from Russia, it made itself a pariah in NATO.
I certainly hope you are right!!!! Russia and China are the countries to attach themselves to, for sure!!!
Are you mad!
Maybe China,but Russia is a basket case,its nothing but a vast criminal enterprise,really it is,but i know you’d rather believe the kremlin kool aid wouldn’t you
speakign of basket cases, in USA the fed will now directly buy companies’ bonds while throwing billions at the banks to keep the charade going for a bit longer while USA’s famous middle class goes down in flames.
Said someone from the biggest terrorist state the USA, declining Mafia state run by gangsters and psychopatic criminals.
Whatever
You have been misinformed.
Go and kneel for BLM retarted zombie American.
Iran would work for anyone wishing to befriend them since Iran is in a mutual defence pact with both.
Iran wouldn’t do anything
They’d impose a theocratic dictatorship on anyone daft enough to be taken in by them
They’re just a bunch of thieves,dressed up as some sort of socialist revolutionary thing
One can but hope, for the Syrians sake. Indeed, for all of the Mid East/North Africa sakes (minus Occupied Palestine).
Things will get interesting when Syria moves to take back the part of the Gaza strip the Israelis stole from them.
Yup be because thats the point that Syria will no longer exist,well it’s almost dead now,its nothing more than a zombie state,better let it die
amerikans are barbaric people
I am sympathetic to that belief, but i think this decision to sanction Syria is not coming from the American people. It’s coming only from Trump, and Washington’s evil, deep state actors. The government and “the people” are two very separate things.
The available options to a few conscientious Americans is to engage in BDS against Israel and Jewish-owned entities; plow available savings into gold, silver, lead, and food supplies; search for a more peaceful existence outside the US.
Indeed. Particularly their political and corporate-imperialist classes. The rest don’t pay much, if any, attention.
It has been demonstrated over and over again that economic sanctions equal Siege Warfare which equals devastation to the general population. And the USA and EU need to get over their apparently unshakable belief that They have the right to determine who and what political set up rules any country. They have NO right to determine anything to do with any other country. Instead they need to clean up and put right their own houses, most particularly the US and UK.
Utterly barbarous, grotesque, and obscene these and all other economic sanctions. There needs to be an END to the pre-eminence and dominance of the $$$.
And Assad bombing and gasing his own people out of Syria is the height of civilised behaviour
Lincoln bombing americans and 750K dead is OK https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9dd4611fca318a805b5756d68e4004f88ea4359e0abca5a5523362b832212eeb.jpg
I’m assuming that it’s the lack of education and discernment that lets you make such inane pronouncements….if it’s anything else, then I’m sorry for your troubles !
Its actually something called facts and history backed by evidence
Although i can tell by your tone you’d rather follow a pro kremlin ‘ narrative ‘
Where do you get this sort of info…do share. OPCW whistleblowers said America lied twice.
Stop watching Clinton News Network and MSDNC and you might learn that the gassing was not done by Assad but by those ‘moderate’ rebels that Barack Obama was funnelling money and weapons to.
Apparently you must believe that the blokes in the OPCW who revealed the fit up that went on to ensure that Assad got the blame (when it would have made the least sense) were lying through their teeth. Right. And you clearly have your finger on the pulse of who/whose government does what, where and when. Please.
Assad isn’t saintly – but then which government is? And by comparison with Saudia’s (in country and against Yemen) or Occupied Palestine’s zionistas, Assad is a pretty laid back kinda guy.
Typical whataboutery answer
Assad caused this mess,now deal with it
Stop taking the Kremlin kool aid,and deal with the facts of history
Stop your insane blather about other countries,which isn’t the issue,Syria is,and its a massive murderous cesspool, a failed state simply as
Deal with it,and you’ll start to become a normal person,and not someone trapped by ethno fascist propaganda oozing out of the Kremlin
Russia,just like Syria,has nothing to offer the world,its a place run by criminals and scum,trouble is don’t want to know
Putin is mad,he’ll start a war,because he’s mad,old, and running a criminal mafia state,addicted to oil,he’s got a weak lopsided economy controlled by oligarchs who encourage right wing fascist
Russia is another failing state,you’ll see this soon they’ll you’ll actually grow up
Moreover, what has your statement to do with what I said. Oh – right: WE in the whited sepulcher west, always no matter how many people we slaughter with whatever weapons (napalm? agent orange? white phosphorus? TNT?), are always humanitarian. Please.
Stop watching CNN dumb American.
I’ve never watched it
But if you prefer the kremlin propaganda to CNN then be my guest,but don’t be surprised when it goes wrong,not if,but when,then you’ll probably say Putin was an idiot for getting involved,which he was!
Putin is too much for you depraved US zombie retards. Still whining about gas attacks which were debunked long time ago dumb American retard. Washington is a lost cause, go and read or watch your daily dose of American propaganda.
We inherited it from the British.
Syria is basket case
Its been brought to this position because Assad and his inner circle robbed and looted the Syrian economy
They imposed brutal neo liberalism upon Syria,creating a highly polarized society,which literally exploded into riots against the regime and poverty they’d created
This is the true back story to Syria nothing to do with sanctions,basically no different than Iran
It can’t and won’t be solved by the people who caused this,which is the Assad family
Syria is dead,finished,why cry over it,the decent people have been driven out,refugees now,those that remain are hard core Assad regime loyalists, stealing the property of those driven out
so who cares about them,as its clear they don’t care about millions of their fellow citizens,let them have Assad and celebrate their victory!
as your supervisor I MUST inform you that you still have 999 posts to go before you get paid. So you better start posting faster, MUCH faster. and No more pee brakes for you!
He’s got 999 problems and a bitch ain’t one.
Lol your incoherent rambling is a joke. Still mad that the US-thug criminals and their jihadist criminals didn’t conquer Syria. Another losing case from the depraved USA-regime..
There’s nothing to conquer,the place is a ruin,Assad can own it,he burned the place down
Oh and those ” zombie Americans ” as you put it are still sat on top of much of Syrian oil and gas,and I’ve read that parts of Syria will no longer even use the Syrian Pound,as soon they’ll be like Wiemer Germany,you know pushing money about in a wheelbarrow,if they can find a wheelbarrow
as your supervisor I MUST inform you that you still have 999 posts to go before you get paid. So you better start posting faster.
If i would be you i would worry about your joke country that’s going into shambles..We all know that you retarted country steals and occupies from weaker countries. I hope you speak Spanish American zombie, it is not looking good for you Americunts.