Regime Change Failed But the Plot to Destroy Syria Continues
Rania Khalek Dispatches
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The US Controls Syria's Bread Basket
The Cesar sanctions had effects pretty immediately. By October there had been a tripling in the price of basic foodstuffs like wheat and rice. We have by December of that year an article in Foreign Policy, which occasionally sort of by accident runs accurate things. They reported at the time that 9.3 million Syrians were unsure where their next deal was coming from. That's a really significant number of people for it to have grown by within a single year.
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