<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20180701114143.htm" class="">http://www.aina.org/news/20180701114143.htm</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The US military - illegally in Syria - has a variety of relations with different Kurdish groups.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And US support for ISIS and Al-Qaeda - 'jihadists’ - is well-known, but not in the US. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The US support for sometime competing sides in Syria is in aid of its long-time goal of weakening or bringing down the Syrian government, its quondam ally (the CIA used to employ the Damascus government’s torturers, in the Gina Haspel style).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The US means to demonstrate what happens to governments who don’t follow US orders regarding oil flows from the Mideast, which the US wishes to control as a weapon against our economic rivals from Germany to China.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’re willing to kill a lot of people for that. —CGE </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div></body></html>