No, your right. Syrian oil production plummeting after US occupation is actually just a coincidence. We also 100 percent invaded Iraq for WMDs. You’re not going to find BBC, Reuters, or the Washington Post outright stating the disposition of US interventionism.

I’m former military, I’ve deployed twice, but none of that qualifies any statement towards the US routinely exploiting countries like Syria for their natural resources.

Again, the US exploiting Syria for oil has been occurring since 2011. BBC has a decent article on Syrians oil production post-US intervention. but have your pick.

https://www.bbc.com/news/50464561

https://www.newsweek.com/syria-trump-stealing-oil-us-confirms-deal-1526589

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774521472/if-u-s-takes-syrian-oil-it-may-violate-international-laws-against-pillage

https://www.voanews.com/a/extremism-watch_us-firm-secures-oil-deal-us-backed-forces-syria/6194040.html

https://www.newsweek.com/syria-first-message-biden-withdraw-troops-stop-stealing-oil-1563165

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20221213-syria-regime-again-accuses-us-of-stealing-its-oil/

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN24Y0MI/

https://orinocotribune.com/us-steals-more-than-80-of-syrias-daily-oil-production/

https://english.news.cn/20220817/437cb1bd33ea40999cda96c521f31d21/c.html

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-military-still-stealing-oil-syria/5790752

Yeah, I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for BBC to cover Western atrocities in the developing world, let alone any US outlet (or rather frame it as justified in response to retaliatory attacks to violence initiated by US intervention in the first place). The issue with over relying on sites like MBFC is that they inherently have a western bias. The US exploiting Syria for its oil isn’t even news at this point, this has been ongoing since 2011.