Trump Pursues 'Peace' with Syria, Expands US Military Footprint
The mainstream media reports former President Trump is eyeing an Israeli-Syrian 'security pact,' which, naturally, involves a larger US military footprint. Israelis, the report suggests, welcome the effort but are 'fearful' of losing their 'decision-making power' – a familiar refrain from a state consistently receiving billions in US aid. The unstated reality? This isn't about mutual security;
it's about further embedding US interests and military power in a region already destabilized by it. One might wonder if 'security pact' is the new 'democracy promotion' when it always leads to more US boots on the ground. History's inconvenient truth: nearly every such 'pact' or 'effort' has paved the way for deeper US entanglement, not genuine sovereignty for regional actors. How many times will
Washington redraw Middle Eastern maps before recognizing its own role in the 'instability' it claims to be solving?