New Friends? Considering the extensive US backing of both groups? Hardly. Grain From Ukraine? Of course, since Syria’s bread basket is and has long been occupied by Americans and their PKK proxies–
Syria’s northeastern Jazira region—an area that includes land in Hasakah, Raqqa and Deir e-Zor provinces—has long been considered Syria’s “food basket,” growing strategic crops such as wheat, barley and cotton.
In Syria’s breadbasket US backed Proxy forces and Damascus battle for food crops- 2019
The Kurds would not permit the regime to ferry the cereal to other parts of Syria, he said.
“We will not allow it to leave northeast Syria,” he added, without providing further details on how this would be achieved.
“Wheat is a weapon of great power in this next phase of the Syrian conflict,” Heras said.
And the Kurds and their US ally “have a significant stockpile of this wheat weapon,” Heras said
US military forces steal more wheat crops from Syria and take them to Iraq-2021
Local sources told Syria’s official news agency SANA that 38 military vehicles loaded with wheat entered the Iraqi territory on Saturday through al-Waleed border crossing.
It came only two days after a convoy of over a dozen US military trucks left the same Syrian region for northern Iraq, reportedly carrying tens of tons of grain.
SANA reported at the time that 18 military vehicles rumbled through Semalka border crossing, and headed toward Iraq.
Damascus says the deployment is meant to plunder the country’s resources.
Syrian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Bassam Tomeh told al-Ikhbariyah TV on March 18 that the US and Takfiri terrorist groups were looting the country’s oil reserves and that US troops controled 90 percent of oilfields in northeast Syria.
He said the cost of direct and indirect damage to the Syrian oil sector stood at more than $92 billion.
It’s still quite shocking to me how little attention is paid to the direct US contribution to Syria’s failure as a unified state. The US and their Kurdish proxy allies- plundered resource wealth, providing much of it to their Israeli allies. At the same time the US lead the sanctions regime against Syria. The US also funded and armed ISIS, alongside the Israelis..
Now Syria can depend on Ukraine.
Ukraine seeks closer ties with Syria under new regime
President Zelenskyy moves to replace Russia as key grain supplier after overthrow of Moscow ally Bashar al-Assad
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sent his foreign and agriculture ministers to meet Syria’s new leaders in a diplomatic drive to benefit from Moscow’s loss of influence in the region following the overthrow of Russian ally Bashar al-Assad.“We proceed from the fact that the new Syria will become a state which will respect international law, including Ukraine’s territorial integrity,” said Ukrainian foreign minister Andriy Sybiha, who met Syrian de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group in Damascus on Monday.
The Putin and Assad regimes had supported each other “because their foundation is violence and torture”, Sybiha said.
Nazi’s and terrorists gaslighting readers- DARVO
In an evening address in Kyiv, Zelenskyy said Ukraine “can help restore stability to Syria after many years of Russian intervention, and this will definitely help us restore peace for ourselves”.
More gaslighting– The Americans were on the scene, first and foremost alongside their Kurdish proxies..
An initial 500 tonnes of wheat flour are set to arrive in Syria on Tuesday under the humanitarian “Grain from Ukraine” programme in partnership with the World Food Programme, Zelenskyy said earlier in a post on X.
“And there will be more deliveries, as well as more mutually beneficial co-operation in many areas,” he added.
The overthrow of Assad on December 8 has thrown the future of Syria-Russia relations into doubt. Historically a breadbasket, Syria had recently come to rely on Russia for wheat supplies as economic sanctions, drought and over a decade of war destroyed its economy.
The initial Ukrainian wheat delivery is fraction of what Syria needs, but Kyiv says more is on the way. Sybiha said he had delivered a message from Zelenskyy to al-Sharaa to declare that “we are with you and ready to assist in restoring normal life, stability, and food security”.
In comments carried by Syrian state media, he said the 20 trucks arriving on Tuesday were a gift and that future shipments would be bigger.
Syria’s foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani said his country and Ukraine are discussing political, economic, social and scientific strategic partnerships, giving no further details.
In a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart, he said his administration was open to welcoming any and all delegations from Arab and foreign countries and aimed to turn the page on the international “estrangement” under the old regime.