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Just not a professional Repub, like Dick Cheney:
the 'oil' is concentrated in Derr Ezzor where US troops are packing up & leaving. They have to because with US troops ordered out of Rojava the only way to supply them will be by parachute. Russian mercs and Iran-backed militias are already chomping at the bit to fill the vacuum. https://t.co/oxofL7AnBV
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) October 18, 2019
it's also not much. Syria's oil output is far smaller than Iraq, Iran or Saudi Arabia. A nice payday for a kleptocrat and a lifeline to a struggling dictator like Assad but hardly a strategic asset for a superpower.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) October 18, 2019
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