US hasn’t invaded Syria in a colonial war. They also didn’t commit genocide in Syria.
>"The Syrian Arab Republic affirms that the practices of the United States of America and the illegal presence of its forces on parts of the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic is an actual embodiment of the crime of aggression," the Syrian Mission to the United Nations told Newsweek.
>"Syria stresses that the lies promoted by the U.S. administration are nothing but a failed attempt to justify the acts of aggression and the flagrant violation of the sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic,"
https://www.newsweek.com/syria-demands-end-americas-last-for...
The phrase “…the people of Syria…” is doing a lot of work in this sentence.