US Imperialist/Russian Confrontation in Syria

"American officials say these actions by Russian personnel and their Syrian allies are devised to present a constant set of challenges, probes and encroachments to slowly create new facts on the ground and make the U.S. military presence there more tenuous. About 500 American troops remain deployed in Syria with a mission to protect oil fields and help fight remnants of the Islamic State." 
The facts however are these: the US has no rights at all to be occupying any ground whatever in Syria let lone "guarding" oil fields that belong to the Syrian government, nor does Turkey. Russia, on the other hand, has every right to be in Syria as an ally of the officially United Nations recognised government of Syria. Meanwhile, Trump has remarked re the oil fields the US is "guarding"--

“We’ll work something out with the Kurds so that they have some money, so that they have some cash flow. Maybe we’ll get one of our big oil companies to go in and do it properly.”[The Washington Post 10-22-19] The idea that a Syrian oil field, legally belonging to the Syrian government, could be turned over to an American "big oil company" is just the sort of US imperialist overreach that results in these confrontations in the areas described in the NYT article below. Once again US imperialism is risking an escalation that might lead to a serious military confrontation on even war in order to hold on to other people's oil and by invading and occupying the territory of another state. Trump and his mid-east policies are an existential menace to all concerned.

Russian troops are engaging in standoffs with U.S. troops guarding oil fields and fighting remnants of the Islamic State.

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Russians Pressure U.S. Forces in Northeast Syria

Russian troops are engaging in standoffs with U.S. troops guarding oil fields and fighting remnants of the Islamic State.

Russian troops are engaging in standoffs with U.S. troops guarding oil fields and fighting remnants of the Islamic State.