HTS- regimen (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) kör ju både slavhandel och är nu avklassificerade som terrorgrupp av USA, men inte i resten av världen... ja och Uranium One och Sum of All Fears, är ju vad de är.
Syria, since 1984, has refused IMF loans, a key tool by which the U.S. Empire maintains the global capitalist system and dominates the Global South, ensuring ‘poor’ countries remain under its heel. Neither was Syria a part of the World Trade Organization, which plays a similar role. Accession to both would go some way to cementing the “free-market model” advocated by HTS. Sounds like what happened to Russia in the 1990s - except the new politicians weren't called terrorists, but "free market liberals" who sold off state assets, took on high interest loans & opened up local markets to the detriment of local industry. Same, same?