In Turkey, following the recent earthquakes, many lives have been saved due to an abundance of heavy lifting machinery, yet in Syria, due to a dearth of equipment as a result of western sanctions, many lives were needlessly lost.

The United States of has shown, time and again, over many decades, that it has no compunction about taking unlawful, unilateral measures to get what it wants, as evinced by its harsh sanctions policy against many nations.