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“The way the [US] propaganda works, facts don’t drive policy and they don’t drive the story; the story is written and then facts are assembled to support it,” Daniel Patrick Welch told Press TV on Friday.

The US accusation against the Syrian government that it buys oil from the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group is “mindboggling” that shows the corrupt American empire is in its death throes, a writer and political analyst in Boston says.

These false statements by US officials about Syria shows how bankrupt and unbelievable the US government has become, Daniel Patrick Welch told Press TV on Friday.

The United States has accused the Syrian government of buying oil from Daesh, following reports that Turkey is engaged in oil trade with the terrorist group.

Speaking at Chatham House in London on Thursday, senior US Treasury official Adam Szubin said that Daesh is earning some $40 million a month from oil trade, Reuters reported.

Szubin, the acting undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence with the Treasury, said "ISIL is selling a great deal of oil” to the Assad government, without citing any evidence to support his claims.

US accusation mindboggling

It’s inconceivable that the government of President Bashar al-Assad would purchase oil from a terrorist group that it has been fighting a bloody conflict with for nearly five years, Welch said. "To try to get away with that kind of lie is almost childish.”

"This is one of the more astonishing stories to come across the wire in this whole series of Bizarro World excerpts. That Szubin -- the US government -- would accuse Syria of buying Daesh oil is just mindboggling. These are terrorists that the government is fighting tooth and nail, losing soldiers and civilians in this bloody, awful war,” he said.

"And the fact that the US can come up with this, on the one hand shows how completely bankrupt and without credibility they are. Second is that they feel they can either get away with it, or they just are cornered and they have no choice. They just have to say something, without any evidence -- they don't cite any evidence,” he added.

"By contrast, when the Russians made their accusations they had tons and tons of data – they had satellite imagery, they had video imagery. And of course we've all been watching this for years -- we see these tanker trucks in long convoys crossing the border, and on highways in Syria,” the analyst stated.

"It's an open secret; yet the US State Department can look at this same evidence and just say 'I don't see it.' That's what they said last week. 'Well, we don't see them actually crossing the border.' Because they were stills. You can't see them ‘moving’ because they're ‘still!’” he noted.

On Thursday, Szubin acknowledged that some of the oil sold by ISIL is finding its way to Turkey.

According to Iraqi lawmaker Mowaffak al-Rubaie, the Takfiri terrorists have made more than $800 million in black market oil sales in Turkey over the last eight months.

Accusations over Turkey’s role in Daesh oil smuggling have also been raised by Russia. On November 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he received additional information confirming that Daesh had been conducting its oil sales via Turkey.

Facts don’t drive US policy

Welch said that the way the US "propaganda works, facts don’t drive policy and they don’t drive the story; the story is written and then facts are assembled to support it. And if they don't, then you just lie your head off and hope that no one catches you."

"I think what is interesting is that the game really is up. This is like a dying empire that is flailing, and is saying and doing literally anything, anything they can to keep the game going. The trouble is it's still the biggest military in the world. It's very dangerous; it's like a cornered, rabid dog,” he added.

"It's going to take a lot of flailing, and a lot of people are going to die and a lot of destruction is going to be brought about before it settles down. But incidents like this show, I think, that it's on the way out,” he pointed out.

"The story has yet to be written: we don't know yet who they're going to target and which countries are going to be destroyed, but it is at the end of its invidious life, thankfully -- but, you know, there is still some blood left to be spilled," the American writer concluded. 


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