Scoop: U.S. raises concerns about attacks on minorities with new Syrian government

[u/Currymvp2]

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/30/syria-us-meeting-attacks-alawites

[u/Creative_Hope_4690]

How is rich coming for the state department to raise this issue?

We raise issues with all our Middle East partners when they do bad things despite working with them.

[u/kaesura → u/Creative_Hope_4690]

Mostly annoyed since USA hasn't even temporaily waived the sanctions cripplingly syria that were put on syria to get assad out. they can always put them back if the current government goes evil.

but right now, the government wants to improve electricity for everyone and improve other basic services. our sanctions literally prohibit anyone from doing so.

[u/Creative_Hope_4690 → u/kaesura]

What? You expect sanction to be removed during a lame duck session and without knowing how the government will move forward?

And for that reason the state department should not raise human rights concerns? I am personally a realist think human rights concert is to heavily centred by the US and the west for that example but your logic does not follow.

[u/kaesura → u/Creative_Hope_4690]

I am talking about temporary waivers on a sub section of the sanctions that were designed to topple a man who killed 600K of his population not to be make syria a better governed country than jordan.

and considering that the united states is not speaking out about israel firing on two different sets of unarmed protestors in newly occupied syrian territory, their words ring very hallow.

[u/Creative_Hope_4690 → u/kaesura]

Lol 😂 good one let’s remove sanctions without knowing how the new government will govern.

[u/kaesura → u/Creative_Hope_4690]

the sanctions could cause the new government to fall apart leading to a most worst situation

and the new government has already been governing better than the majority of middle eastern countries, including ones we are allied with.

i am advocating for temporary waivers that can easily be put back on the government turns evil.

[u/Creative_Hope_4690 → u/kaesura]

The rebels that took down Assad that now have more resources are at risk of collapsing?

[u/kaesura → u/Creative_Hope_4690]

so many new governments fall apart because they aren't able to deliver basic services for their population. funding the military isn't the problem.

the issue is the civilian population running out of fuel for their electricity generators since that was supplied by iran. cities losing access to electricity is exactly something that can cause societal wide unrest and is extremely preventable.

do you want to push the new government back into the arms of iran and russia because they can actually supply them with basic things that the sanctions prohibit?

temporarily lifting sanctions to allow surges in humanitarian aid is the smart thing for the usa to do but the usa refuses.

minorities care far more about reliable electricity verus a few dozen torturers and mass murders getting beaten up.

[u/Creative_Hope_4690 → u/kaesura]

Humanitarian aid are exempt from sanction the state department has a history of giving billions of aid even under Assad.

[u/kaesura → u/Creative_Hope_4690]

caesar sanctions literally prohibit any aid for syria's electricity sector. they designed the sanctions so it would be impossible for assad to rebuild syria.

yes food aid is allowed but stuff that is super needed right now is prohibitited.

[u/Creative_Hope_4690 → u/kaesura]

The state deportment has a method of giving weavers if warranted. You are asking for full lift of sanctions for “temporary” undefined period.

[u/kaesura → u/Creative_Hope_4690]

these sanctions were implented because assad was gassing his population with chemical weapons. the new government is trying to resume basic services for assad's victims.

and the usa state department is standing in the new government's way and pushing them towards iran and russia out of inertia.

and yes the state department has historically waived sanctions for a preset period of time- for example when syria was hit by an major earthquake in 2019. nothing is stopping the usa from waiving some sanctions for a few months and resuming the sanctions even before that period expires if the new government behaves.

the amount of stuff they need done instantly means that the usa shouldn't make millions suffer to go through the hoops.

but instead the usa's standing in the way of reconstruction and the stablization of a destroyed country out of bureacratic inertia.

pushing the country away from the usa and the west towards countries that are actually help them regardless