The
currently stateless Kurds sit astride the Iraq-Syria border on land
blessed/cursed with oil, other resources, and geopolitical
significance. Is it any wonder that mega-corporations and their
client states are looking to use the Kurds, stoke conflict, and
exploit the situation?
by
Whitney Webb
Part
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Years before
the U.S. illegally invaded and then occupied Iraq, plans were
circulating within the Pentagon to partition the country along
“sectarian” lines, with the express purpose of allowing the U.S.
and its regional allies to better control oil resource production and
movement within the Middle East.
In Syria,
the same narrative of partition has more recently been circulated as
the “only” solution to the nation’s sectarian divisions,
divisions which did not emerge until they were artificially created
in 2011 when the current conflict began and later fomented by hostile
foreign actors.
While the
Bush and Obama administrations pushed for the partition of Iraq on
several occasions, it was largely corporate actors during that time
that took the most active steps towards creating an independent state
within the Iraqi region controlled by the U.S.-allied Kurds, an area
with sizeable energy reserves and other strategic resources.
The area of
Syria controlled by the U.S.-backed Kurds conveniently connects
directly with the Kurdish “statelet” in Iraq, making the
possibility of a larger independent Kurdistan more feasible. This
area also boasts the largest concentration of many of Syria’s most
critical resources.
While past
administrations avoided openly recognizing the partition of Iraq, the
administration of President Donald Trump is striking a different
tone, largely due to the influence within the administration of some
of the biggest players who actively sidestepped Iraq’s government
in favor of the Kurds years ago.
Chief among
such players was ExxonMobil — whose CEO at the time, Rex Tillerson,
is now Trump’s Secretary of State — along with other corporations
whose financial and political support for the Trump administration is
well-documented.
Source,
links:
http://www.mintpressnews.com/geopolitics-corporate-profits-push-iraq-syria-towards-partition/230830/
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