Vanessa Beeley - Latest Reports From Syria

"5.5 million people are homeless in Syria after the earthquake 💔 according to the UN."

"UN office in Damascus has cancelled humanitarian aid convoy to Idlib that was proposed by Damascus and SARC. The government in Syria is ready to respond to the needs of all Syrians. Western, Turkey armed forces are preventing aid."

"A UN spokesperson told Reuters that humanitarian aid via the Syrian  government to the opposition-held north has been held up, as the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) extremist group is refusing to grant approval for the aid’s entry." 

"Many countries were quick to send emergency rescue teams to the zone of havoc that straddles the border between Türkiye and Syria. Russia and Iran - experienced in such natural disasters - were among the first neighboring countries to send in aid and salvage crews.

By contrast, the apathetic response from the U.S.-led NATO bloc has been abject. What’s even more incredible, Türkiye is a long-time prominent member of the organization and is considered a vital partner for the European Union.

All one has to do is compare the massive mobilization of military and financial aid that the U.S. and NATO mounted for Ukraine. The proxy war in that country against Russia has been fueled with over $100 billion in “emergency” spending by the United States and its European allies.

Why aren’t the United States and NATO members mobilizing tens of billions of dollars in aid and rescue crews for the quake victims? What are all those airplanes, ships, tanks and engineering equipment for if they can’t be deployed with efficient timing and logistics to save lives? Where is the will to move heaven and earth to dig people out of crushing debris?

Of course, the answer is that NATO is not a “security organization” in the normal meaning of the word. It is a war machine that serves U.S. imperialist objectives.

When a real-world emergency happens, all of NATO’s pious and self-regarding talk implodes in a pile of dust"

(https://telegra.ph/Quake-Delivers-Earth-Shattering-Blow-to-US-Led-NATO-Hypocrisy-02-08).