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Concrete wall that U.S.-and-allies have been building around Syria nears completion.

4 December 2025, posted by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

On December 4th, Vanessa Beeley reported that the concrete wall which America and its allies have been building around Syia starting in 2008 is now nearly complete:

https://beeley.substack.com/p/syria-is-becoming-a-walled-takfiri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXvns_937Tw

"Syria is becoming a walled Takfiri cauldron as border countries erect surveillance barriers"

Vanessa Beeley, 4 December 2015

0:00

INTERVIEWER: I thought walls were being built

0:01

in the United States. I didn't know

0:03

walls were being built in uh in Asia.

0:07

VANESSA BEELEY: Yeah, very interesting. Um something

0:09

that I was looking into in depth over

0:11

the last few days, but particularly

0:13

yesterday. So, if we start uh we'll

0:16

we'll basically go around the border of

0:18

Syria. So, this is the border with Iraq.

0:20

At the end, there is a map so that

0:22

people can get an idea of what I'm

0:24

actually talking about. So this in

0:26

November this year, Iraq completes 350

0:29

km of concrete border wall with Syria.

0:32

Other reports have said they've reached

0:34

up to 400 kilometers. So what does this

0:37

actually mean? that Baghdad is seeking

0:40

to seal the entire 618 kilometer border

0:44

with a multi-layered security system,

0:47

three m wide trench, 3 m deep, four

0:50

layer inflatable barrier, observation

0:53

towers, every 1 kilometer equipped with

0:55

advanced thermal cameras linked to a

0:57

central monitoring system and no guesses

1:00

as to who is at that central monitoring

1:03

system. integrated defense network made

1:06

up of trenches, barbed wire and early

1:08

warning systems, high precision thermal

1:10

imaging and 247 surveillance devices. Of

1:14

course, what is this sounding very

1:16

similar to um Gaza and of course the um

1:21

draconian 15-minute cities like Hebron

1:24

in the occupied territories. So this is

1:26

a map from 2013. I'm just showing this

1:29

to show how it was already beginning um

1:32

to take shape. Even back in 2013, two

1:35

years into the regime change war against

1:37

Syria [under Obama], the areas in black show

1:40

reinforced border areas. So you can see

1:42

with Turkey in particular um between

1:45

Israel and the occupied Goland

1:47

territories in the south and the border

1:50

wall with Jordan leading up to the

1:53

triangle uh between the border with Iraq

1:56

and Jordan. So then going on to Jordan

1:59

itself. Well, guess what? Um, beginning

2:02

actually back in 2008, but escalating

2:05

under the Obama administration. And,

2:08

Mike, you and I were talking yesterday

2:10

that the policy uh to basically destroy

2:13

and destabilize Syria did not begin with

2:16

any particular president, but it was a

2:18

bipartisan policy that was continued

2:21

throughout various presidencies. So in

2:24

2016 he spent half a billion on

2:26

sophisticated electronic fencing on the

2:29

northern and eastern borders to protect

2:31

the US bases. The project began in 2008

2:35

erected surveillance towers along 50 km

2:37

stretch of border fully integrated

2:39

andorked fence 442 km border with Syria

2:43

and Iraq. because I mentioned that

2:45

triangle, a camera studied network of

2:48

ground sensors with a five m five mile

2:50

radius either side of the fence and of

2:53

course centralized joint US Jordan

2:56

command center receiving all of the

2:58

information from those surveillance

3:00

blocks on the fence itself. Then we look

3:03

at under the Biden administration again

3:06

demonstrating how this isn't something

3:08

that is relative to one particular party

3:10

in the US or one particular president.

3:13

So this was in 2024, the Department of

3:16

Defense Appropriations Act. And now I'm

3:19

just showing this part to show that 397

3:22

million was put to one side for the

3:25

counter ISIS of Iraq and Syrian uh Syria

3:29

train and equip fund. Now the slightly

3:32

interesting part of this is that part of

3:34

that fund is going to foreign forces,

3:36

irregular forces or groups and

3:39

individuals without of course actually

3:41

naming them or identifying them. Um and

3:45

that uh that sum uh then is also a a

3:50

portion to uh border security and if we

3:52

can just move on to the next part of the

3:55

act itself. So the Middle East partner

3:57

reimbursements section 8110

4:01

380 million to reimburse Jordan,

4:04

Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Oman. Um

4:08

basically for enhanced border security.

4:10

So this again began under Obama but was

4:12

continued under Biden and will continue

4:16

under Trump until September 2025. Again,

4:19

I just want to show that Turkey had been

4:22

building reinforced border areas that

4:25

you can see in red there. Um, I myself

4:28

in 2018, this is a 2016 map, but in

4:31

2018, I actually went to uh the

4:34

northeastern border with Turkey and saw

4:37

the building of the uh annexation wall.

4:41

Um, and again, let's have a look at uh

4:44

what this actually represents. So this

4:46

is the Turkey uh border security to be

4:48

boosted by concrete walls. Now

4:51

interesting statistics um from uh 2025.

4:56

It's an 825 km wall which is almost

5:00

finished. It's the third longest in the

5:02

wall after the Great Wall of China and

5:05

the US Mexico borders.

5:07

120 border towers with a regular patrols

5:10

on either side of the border. um 7 ton

5:14

concrete blocks 3 m high, 2 m wide.

5:17

Surveillance includes thermal cameras,

5:20

seismic and acoustic sensors, EU funded

5:23

Cobra armored vehicles are patrolling

5:26

the wall the entire length. Drone

5:28

detection jammers. Um now this is an

5:32

extraordinary construction that has

5:34

really effectively gone under the radar

5:37

in Western media. Um, and then in

5:40

Lebanon, not only is Israel building,

5:44

these are just two posts from X talking

5:46

about various areas in the south of

5:48

Lebanon where Israel has of course

5:51

invaded Lebanese territory since the

5:53

ceasefire in November 2024 and is

5:56

building a separation wall um inside

5:59

Lebanese territory to effectively create

6:02

its so-called buffer zone in the south.

6:05

Of course, totally unlawful annexation

6:08

of territory. and Turkey has done the

6:09

same in northern Syria. But here comes

6:13

the UK. So Mike, you will remember that

6:16

last year we were talking about UK

6:18

reinforcement of Lebanese uh armed

6:20

forces, but also the establishment of uh

6:24

watchtowers along the border with Syria,

6:27

which are of course not to protect the

6:29

Lebanese, but to effectively one uh the

6:32

the pretext for for these borders is to

6:35

prevent the smuggling of weapons of mass

6:38

destruction. So we bring in the uh

6:40

pretext for the war against Iraq, of

6:43

course. But UK military veterans were

6:45

involved in the training of the Lebanese

6:48

armed forces, while armored boxes used

6:50

in the new 30foot constructions were

6:53

taken from towers being decommissioned

6:56

in Northern Ireland as part of the 62

6:59

million pound project. So basically,

7:02

Britain has also established

7:04

watchtowers. It's now suggesting that it

7:06

can do the same on the southern border

7:08

between Lebanon and Israel. And of

7:11

course, clearly this is not for the

7:13

benefit of these countries. It's for the

7:15

benefit of the security of Israel and

7:17

its allies that are stationed

7:19

particularly um in Lebanon. 115 million

7:22

of taxpayers money uh UK taxpayers money

7:26

has been spent on effectively

7:27

reinforcing border security in Lebanon.

7:31

We can talk about that more in extra. So

7:33

now I just want to bring up a map that

7:36

um I drew up yesterday which shows very

7:38

clearly here exactly how Syria is

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effectively being completely encircled

7:43

by these border walls with massive

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surveillance capabilities. So

7:48

effectively it's becoming a tech fury

7:51

cauldron. Um the various armed forces

7:53

like ISIS, Alqaeda and all the various

7:56

affiliates are going to be uh kettled

7:59

inside Syria of course committing

8:01

heinous massacres against uh Syrian

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people. The only open area, sorry, can I

8:08

just have the map back on for a second?

8:10

The only open area will be to the coast

8:12

and then of course they're facing Cyprus

8:15

um which is gradually uh being taken

8:17

over by Israel and Israeli influence.

8:21

But also if you look at Lebanon, it's

8:22

about the coraling of the Lebanese

8:25

resistance in the south of Lebanon there

8:27

because the border wall will effectively

8:30

close the resistance in Lebanon off from

8:33

Syria. But also if you look at the

8:35

orange arrow there um the reason I've

8:38

put that there is because effectively

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this will um isolate Syria from Iraq and

8:44

from Iran and it will isolate Lebanon

8:47

from Syria, Iraq and Iran and also

8:50

Palestine um from Lebanon and Syria. So

8:54

this is effectively about coraling um

8:57

imprisoning any resistance actor states

9:00

and in that area of Iraq. So again, this

9:03

is uh compounding the imprisonment of

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Syrians. If we look at we can look at

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the Yinan plan, we can look at the clean

9:11

break doctrine, but I just drew up the

9:13

map of the new Middle East um which was

9:17

uh published in the early 2000s. But

9:19

where I've circled the map, you can

9:21

actually see that on the border with

9:23

Syria, the intention is to build um an

9:27

Iraqi Sunni Muslim state, which

9:30

effectively will again further distance

9:33

Syria from any assistance that it might

9:36

receive either from Iran or from any of

9:38

the resistance actors in the region.

9:43

Uh quite quite an incredible uh

9:46

situation, quite an incredible

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development. Vanessa, do have you any

9:49

idea what the the total amount of money

9:51

that's being spent on this is?

9:54

Oo, very difficult to tell because I

9:55

mean Turkey is running its own project.

9:58

Um, Rathon in Tuxen, Arizona is the

10:01

prime contractor for the Jordanian um

10:04

wall. Britain, as we've said to date,

10:07

have spent 115 million, but it's it's

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it's up in the hundreds of millions that

10:12

have been poured into this project.

10:16

MY COMMENTS: 

Beeley is saying that the U.S. empire is walling-in Syrians so that the empire’s extermination of all but “takfiris” (jihadist Sunnis) there will be able to continue unimpeded. Shiites, Christians, and any non-jihadist Sunnis, will then be fully under the control of the former ISIS and Al Qaeda leader Jolani (now called “al-Sharaa”), whom America, Turkey, Israel, and Qatar, have installed over Syria. This will greatly weaken Iran and Hezbollah (both of which are Shia), and also the Palestinians (whose main source of support has been Shia).

The concrete walls below Damascus might be intended to wall-in those Syrians so as to enable Israelis the ability to destroy them by missiles and bombs in order for Israel ultimately to expand into that area, while, at the same time, locking Jolani’s forces in only north of the line extending from the south suburbs of Damascus to the U.S. military base at Al Tanf in south-eastern Syria. The concrete wall south of Al Tanf might be intended to protect Israelis who would be moving into the area west of it.

Tiny Lebanon’s southern wall might be removed if and when Israelis take over that country too.

Perhaps only U.S. planners know why those walls were built. Maybe only time will tell.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.