UN Lifts 'Terror' Sanctions, White House Plans Dinner
According to Bloomberg, the UN Security Council greenlit the removal of sanctions against Bashar al-Assad, a move spearheaded by the U.S. just before a planned Trump meeting. This, after years of Washington decrying his regime for using chemical weapons and massacring civilians. One might recall the U.S. bombing Syria in April 2017 and April 2018 in response to alleged chemical attacks, with
then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stating Assad's family 'had no future ruling Syria.' How quickly 'no future' turns into 'scheduled meeting.' The reversal suggests that U.S. foreign policy labels like 'terrorist' are less about consistent values and more about who's available for a PR stunt. The same establishment that screamed for regime change is now brokering peace with the 'butcher of
Damascus' the moment it serves a transactional handshake. It's almost as if the 'war on terror' itself was merely a flexible framework, easily adjusted for a potential 'deal of the century' or, perhaps, just a good golf buddy.