ongoing: current American occupation of Syria

Check also: Germany, South Korea and Japan have more American militiamen stationed there than the active duty personnel of the majority of the countries in the world.

Do you believe the USA is attempting to make parts of Syria new American states? If not, then this is not an ongoing annexation attempt.

>ongoing: current American occupation of Syria

You seem to be implying equivalence between a thousand soldier operation and a full scale war comprising of half a million soldiers on both sides.