The US didn’t wait long to start bombing dozens of sites across Syria following the sudden collapse of President Bashar al-Assad’s government.

American warplanes bombed the country 75 times in just 24 hours…. But it must be ok, because they say they were only striking ISIS targets.

The strikes came as outgoing US President Joe Biden described Assad’s fall as a “moment of risk” and “historic opportunity”.

Acording to Mint Press News: U.S. forces have carried out airstrikes targeting over 75 locations across Syria. These strikes, described as part of an ongoing mission to “disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS,” were conducted by U.S. Central Command. According to reports, the operation involved B-52 bombers, F-15 fighter jets, and A-10 Warthog aircraft.

Common Dreams reports: Responding Monday to the latest attacks on Syria by U.S. forces, Danaka Katovich, national co-director of the peace group CodePink, told Common Dreams: “We condemn the U.S. airstrikes in Syria. The U.S. has sowed chaos in Syria and the entire region for years and the Biden administration ordering ongoing airstrikes is a disappointing sign that they have no intent on reversing their deadly policy of interventionism.”

U.S. and coalition forces have killed and maimed at least tens of thousands of Syrians and Iraqis during the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations as part of the anti-ISIS campaign and wider so-called War on Terror.

Commenting on the dearth of coverage of the strikes by the corporate media, prominent Greek leftist Yanis Varoufakis said on social media that “the Western press are waxing lyrical about the new Syria being born—but not a word on the U.S. and Israeli bombs falling from the sky.”

“Is there no bottom to the moral void of the Western press?” he added.

Sunday’s U.S. strikes came as al-Assad and relatives fled to Russia—where they have been granted asylum—amid the fall of the capital, Damascus, to rebel forces.

Also on Sunday, Israeli forces seized more territory in Syria’s Golan Heights and ordered residents of five villages to “stay home and not go out until further notice” if they want to remain safe. Israel conquered the western two-thirds of the Golan Heights in 1967 and has unlawfully occupied it ever since. In 1981, Israel illegally annexed the occupied lands.

“We will not allow any hostile force to establish itself on our border,” right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza—said in a video posted on social media.