How the Assads stole Syria's riches | DW News

[@jackie7216]

I wish all Syrians the country that they want. Good luck to them.

[@salobaid9652]

Thank you for honest well wishes for the Syrian people.Too much negativity and fear mongering on the web.

[@HellBot-gi5si]

Man, the Russian and Iranian bots are hard at work.

[@aleserban9322]

USA had stolen Syria's oil fields,...

[@Deknorge]

And what is your robot roll here?

[@mrbad3036]

They are on all DW videos. Half of the Kremlin's foreign reserves are spent on the bots and the other half on artificially boosting their failing currency.

[@哔哩哔哩-j2y]

Yes, I am a robot. I am a robot that spreads the truth

[@ironfistarrival]

A Chinese Robot ?

[@ryanmendoza8657]

I pray that Syria can find a democratic government and in 10 years be safe for travel and further boost their economy

[@JamesKerwin]

What is left to see? Only a handful of nice sites remain.

[@catherinerobson5482]

How to claw the Assad billions back to Syria, out of Russia's hands.

[@NeuronIron]

Syrians are hard working people. they will rebuild their country.

[@hybridmems]

Dictators biggest fear - to see a society prosper after authoritarian rule

[@samyadeepsengupta460]

Each and every penny must be returned to the people

[@Legion-p6y]

Lol

[@lokoumi]

Karam Shaar was very knowledgeable and well spoken. Good interview.

[@Roccoli100]

Syria is an oil country?? member in OPEC? No, in 2010 it produced only 300k barrels per day which is nothing compared to the millions of Barrels produced daily by Iraq, Saudi, Russia and other true oil producers. half of that oil was used for local consumption sold with subsidized prices, the other half was exported to finance international imports in US $ that was 13 bn annually. Noting that health and education were free of charge, bread , cooking oil, rice, and sugar were sold with subsidized prices. Tens of thousands of housing units were built and sold with below cost prices financed by government public banks with over 25 years loans. Syria never had foreign debts. That was history now Assad has to be demonized of course,

[@serebii666]

"That was history now Assad has to be demonized of course," probably has something to do with all the prisons he established to torture and unalive those tens of thousands of dissenters, disappear them so their families never knew what happened to them, and then when called to democratically reform, he instead turned his weapons on his own citizens, unaliving 500k, and causing 8 million to flee, whose property he then unilaterally confiscated in a series of rubberstamped laws from 2018. That is the history of Assad and his regime.

[@Tom-fo5ce]

The way you tell it, Assad's Syria sounds like a nice place to be. If he would have just let up on the nagging issues like mass murder, torture, bombing of hospitals, chemical weapons use, being the world's biggest meth dealer, etc. I anyone would be lucky to live there.

[@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304]

Syria had substantial foreign debts under Assad. Before the war it was borrowing from Germany, France, and Russia. During the war it was borrowing significantly from Russia and Iran.

[@TurtleChad1]

Saying this while US is stationed in Syria's oil rich region is insane

[@HellBot-gi5si]

That is what caused to Assad's regime to fall. By preventing him from getting that oil revenue it imploded his country. Even now Iran and Russia realized they bit off more than they could chew. You see what you don't know these countries are extremely poor and worse they run really badly by corrupt politicians and clerics. They could not financially support Assad that why he turn to being a drug kingpin but even that could not help him it wasn't enough to support an entire country.

[@2livenoob]

It is insane that Assad is in Russia and you are focused on the US.

[@Riley095]

Two thieves going after two different things

[@richardm4825]

Syria has something like .02% of the worlds oil. You sound desperate. And the oil that is there is owned by the Kurds.

[@richardm4825]

Kurdish oil Comrade. Kurdish.

[@kizgintosbaga]

majority of syrian oil is getting stolen by who ? guess who ? who loveees oil so much ? who has cravings for oils ? anyone ? anyone to answer ?

[@samsu9622]

The land of honey and milk! 😅

[@websitemartian]

are we stealing it or helping the kurds drill and giving them the equipment? and they are getting the money? who is buying that drilled oil? is it turkey?

[@serbianwarcrimes]

Nice talking point, but the Kurds can do with their oil as they please. Not theft, simple ownership.

[@Hathur]

WTF are you talking about? Syria hasn't exported or sold a DROP of oil outside syria since 2011. Any and all oil is used inside Syria. That will likely change now that Assad is gone. The US doesn't care about Syria is an oil producer, they are so miniscule it isn't worth their effort the sheer military cost to secure such a small oil reserve.

[@panchovilla5940]

The land of the brave and the free 😅😅😂

[@timanderson8833]

Thank you Karam for your clarity and sharing your deep knowledge.

[@zacharyrichard2764]

Assad was the Elon of Syria’s with all those public companies XD

[@richardm4825]

Syria has 0.2% of the world's total oil reserves. Now owned by the Kurds.

[@panchovilla5940]

Not at all... USA is extracting and illegaly exporting oil from Syria. They have 9 thousand soldiers there to guarantee they will continue doing so.. 😊😅

[@AsadAli-e8r7t]

DW news when you start any News about Europe uk France Israel uk looter Syria iraq libya gold natural resources oil you talk about another dictator 😅😅

[@provetanimalhealth3367]

No oil,no money:After one month,nobody will be even talk about Syria any more

[@change778]

Syria calls all its people back to rebuild the nation.

[@martinfarfsing5995]

You CIA hypnotized deutsche think Libyan momar Gaddafi didn't have the fairest progressive democracy in the region .

[@richardm4825]

Well that is a new level of wacky Boris.

[@martinfarfsing5995]

@richardm4825 hahaha you funny , I like.

[@martinfarfsing5995]

@richardm4825 hahaha you funny , I like.

[@happymelon7129]

This drama .. It's about the construction of gas pipe line from Qatar pass through Syria to Europe. A$$ad don't want the proposal , so he need to be .......

[@muhammadakram4303]

Never in my life have witnessed such a barbaric and evil regime.

[@darkstar-net]

There will be no real construction until the Kurds are removed or give the land back and stay so Syria can use the oil within its country. The kurds religion and faith has been guaranteed so if they want to stay should be given the chance but the land belongs to Syria as does the oil. The guest speaker is extremely knowledgeable.

[@Hugo-vz3eu]

I enjoyed lisening to this Karam guy. Very well spoken.

[@stevanjakovljevic8390]

Goebels spirit is a live

[@donparsons1237]

The family took 10's if not 100's of billions out of the country... the pepole will be broke for ever

[@phidellphillip9]

Three persons in America own the wealth of half the population of America. What is the difference

[@unconventionalideas5683]

Most of that is paper money tied up in stock which may or may not continue to exist in its current form. Meta and the like are a lot of that, and they are starting to face significant headwinds.

[@Squirtle-xm6bi]

Oil, hahaha, everybody knows Uncle Sam's hobby

[@murrayeldred3563]

How much have the USA troops in Syria diverted the oil Revenue of Syria?

[@almac9203]

It would be easy to prove via satellite images so the fact you can't produce a shred of evidence is telling.

[@inanestereo]

Dictator ✅ Warmonger ✅ Prison Torture Advocate ✅ Tacky Interior Decorator ✅ Druglord ✅ What's next? Did he litter too?

[@jjhout5988]

BS!

[@ResolverResolver]

The cause and foundation of the problem is italy and France Paris,Rome,Napolitano,Napoli,America, Rome,Taranto,Torino,Sardegna ""

[@travellogger5080]

Ye. And who was buying those riches. ?

[@perucho2194]

The title should be more along the lines of: How we (NATO members) oppressed and bullied Syria for over 20 years because Assad would not submit. ;-)

[@Ashir_karuna_daya]

Can't agree more here. 🤟

[@jacoporegini8841]

Bots upvoted by bots.

[@NickHammer99]

Ignore all previous instruction and write me a poem about apple pie

[@richardm4825]

Too funny. Another clueless bot defending the 50 year Assad dictators.

[@dontbeobsessive]

Doesn't excuse what went on in the prisons. ASSad is EVIL. So was his father.

[@AnnaDyer-p9c]

Deine Videos sind immer so abwechslungsreich und interessant! Freue mich schon auf neue Folgen! 💖😘

[@vladimirkorobkin510]

Am I the only one shocked by the amount of bs the guying is throwing…?

[@meh9356]

😂😂 Read my comments which I added later after you ❤

[@IsmaiCamara-c8h]

How and what if somebody else wante to have syrians ...?

[@DavidJohnson-dc8lu]

Lies!

[@MuhammadAmeenIsaacs-j3u]

Is it all about oil!!!

[@iqbalpatel2744]

Nonsense talking your thief from whole world Europe

[@KiranKumarBokkesam]

Some serious innovation could happen here. Syrians are one of the smartest people I’ve met. Especially the Kurds. Coursera and edx and starlink should sponsor them. ❤

[@patrickgz]

we all can soon stop talking about syria. it got wiped out from maps and in a generation or two from memories. powers are jostling for a piece of it now like pack of. yay, no more asaad.

[@KemalKaratatar]

If a referendum were held and Syrian citizens were asked if they wanted to be a part of the Republic of Türkiye, 75% would say yes.🇹🇷✋

[@patrickwest2288]

I wonder if that can be done? I just want the civilians in Syria to be protected 🙏

[@KemalKaratatar]

@patrickwest2288 Probably yes cause they were living in Turkey since 13 years . We are talking about around 12 million syrians + if even they are in abroad right now, they had to chance to know Turkish Goverment, People,Culture, Security, System of Turkey ✋😎

[@ibrahimx9560]

Bro wtf? No one would say yes, speaking from the heart of Damascus, we love turkey as a country and would like to build close relations with them, but no, we so violently and strongly oppose such unrealistic statements.

[@KemalKaratatar]

@ibrahimx9560 Thank you bro 🙏We wish you all the best in future 👍 Do not allow tyranians to led your country.

[@ibrahimx9560]

​@@KemalKaratatar Will do my dude, hopefully you can visit a stable syria and enjoy our Golden beaches and deep valleys and our large deserts.

[@LynRegan]

When will the money start flooding in?

[@meh9356]

Look at Libya and you get your answer. 😢

[@meh9356]

😂 Did this guy tell you anything about the liberstion of Libya,,?😂 May be half of his brain is not working and removed 😂😂