On Friday, Trump said he “liked” Syria's oil and that the US would be “keeping the oil,” with his remarks coming in the wake of a report by Russian military intelligence that the US military and CIA had teamed up with US oil companies and military contractors to illegally smuggle tens of millions of dollars of oil out of the war-torn country.
Former Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden criticised Donald Trump over his Syria policy, saying it has only worked to strengthen Russia, Iran and Daesh (ISIS)* terrorists.
“Leaving troops behind like [Trump's] doing now – he says that what he wants to do is we're going to occupy the oil fields and we're going to take ‘em. That's like a giant 300-foot recruiting poster for ISIS,” Biden said, speaking to the Wall Street Journal.
“And so, I don't think he has a foreign policy,” Biden added.
“Russia's position in the region has just been strengthened. [Syrian President Bashar] Assad's position has been strengthened. Iran now has a pathway all the way to Syria and even to Lebanon. If I'm the Israelis I'm not going to be very happy about that. So the whole thing has been turned upside down and we're in there alone now, basically,” the former vice president said.
Biden did not clarify how it was simultaneously possible to ‘strengthen' both Daesh and Russia, Syria and Iran, three of the countries which have played a…
