Writer and political analyst Ghassan Youssef blamed the US administration for the reasons for the economic collapse in Syria due to the imposition of sanctions on Syria since the eighties of the last century.
Youssef added, in his interview with the episode (20/12/2022) of the “The Opposite Direction” program, that the Arab boycott that began in 2011, the theft of Syrian oil by the Islamic State and after it the US-led international coalition, and the Caesar Act approved by Washington all contributed to The destruction of the Syrian economy, he said.
He added that the Syrian opposition tweets outside the flock, and does not want to recognize the sanctions and terrorist dangers surrounding the country, and at the same time calls for reforming the economic situation, describing its demands as high treason to the country and the Syrian people, and it must remember the situation in Syria before 2011.
On the other hand, the Syrian academic Yahya Al-Aridi said that the Syrian regime's talk about the causes of the economic crisis is a peg to suspend its failure since it came to power in the sixties of the last century, stressing that Western sanctions and the Caesar Act excluded food and medicine, but the regime took it as a pretext to starve the people.
He added that the Syrian regime in Damascus confiscates the money of the remaining merchants in the capital, and extorts the families of the detainees and the forcibly disappeared to pay money in exchange for information related to their families, and the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad raised the slogan "rule it or destroy it" and his supporters raised "or we burn the country", and this is it System politics before sanctions come.
Al-Aridi accused the Syrian regime of turning Syria into the largest drug hotspot in the world by deliberately spreading drugs throughout the country in order to destroy the people and the rest of the Syrian economy, accusing the West of protecting the regime, and the Iranian regime of using the Assad regime to pass its agenda.