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More good news for Biden: 400,000 children to starve to death in Yemen
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:49 pm
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:49 pm
Obviously completely sarcastic in the title about it being good news, but apparently Saudi Arabia just blew up Yemen’s biggest ports from weapons bought from Biden.
Yemen is already enduring a famine.
If conditions do not improve the UN estimates 400,000 children will die of starvation.
Despite that, the US-backed, Saudi-led coalition just bombed a grain port, further straining Yemen's food supply.
From Al Jazeera
This week is going even worse for that administration so far than last week, which was a horrible week as well.
Yemen is already enduring a famine.
If conditions do not improve the UN estimates 400,000 children will die of starvation.
Despite that, the US-backed, Saudi-led coalition just bombed a grain port, further straining Yemen's food supply.
From Al Jazeera
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The Saudi-led military coalition has carried out dozens of air raids against what it said were Houthi military targets in Yemen’s north, including the capital Sanaa and the port of Salif on the Red Sea coast.
The coalition, which intervened militarily in 2015 months after the Iran-aligned Houthi group captured large parts of northern Yemen including Sanaa, said it struck a missile and drone assembly plant in the Yemeni capital.
The United Nations said air raids also hit the Houthi-controlled Salif grains port, north of Hodeidah, and two projectiles hit a warehouse and the living quarters of a food production company.
This week is going even worse for that administration so far than last week, which was a horrible week as well.
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Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:54 pm to OMLandshark
One policy that Trump and Obama agreed on: let the Saudis kill the Yemeni.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:58 pm to Aubie Spr96
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One policy that Trump and Obama agreed on: let the Saudis kill the Yemeni.
To be fair to Biden, this certainly could have occurred under Trump and I would have blasted him for it as well.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:25 pm to OMLandshark
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To be fair to Biden, this certainly could have occurred under Trump and I would have blasted him for it as well.
That's more than fair. Trump had 4 years to back off the support for ZioSaudi politics and never did it. His donors demanded it continue, thus it did.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:37 pm to OMLandshark
All Joe wants to know is where does he send the multiple billion dollar check.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:39 pm to OMLandshark
Odd that this interests you now, and not when the first reports of human rights violations surfaced in 2016. The HRW report from last year is a good place to start if you are actually interested.
This most definitely started on Obama's watch, but Trump did little to rein in MBS, who was acting like a madman for most of Trump's presidency. Add to that the close relationship that Kushner and MBS had, it isn't a surprise that none of the attempts try to distance the US from the war succeeded. Even more curiously, Trump vetoed a resolution that attempted to do precisely that.
This most definitely started on Obama's watch, but Trump did little to rein in MBS, who was acting like a madman for most of Trump's presidency. Add to that the close relationship that Kushner and MBS had, it isn't a surprise that none of the attempts try to distance the US from the war succeeded. Even more curiously, Trump vetoed a resolution that attempted to do precisely that.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:40 pm to crazy4lsu
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Odd that this interests you now, and not when the first reports of human rights violations surfaced in 2016. The HRW report from last year is a good place to start if you are actually interested.
I’m extremely anti war and I’m sure if you dig through my post history you’ll find I condemned Trump for drone strikes and his relationship with the Saudis.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:41 pm to crazy4lsu
While tragic, I still don’t believe anything coming out the UN
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:43 pm to CamdenTiger
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While tragic, I still don’t believe anything coming out the UN
I think it’s even worse worldwide than they’re reporting. I’ve been ranting on here for months that more people have likely starved to death in the third world due to the interruption of the supply lines and what China has been up to in Africa than died from Covid.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:49 pm to OMLandshark
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I’m extremely anti war and I’m sure if you dig through my post history you’ll find I condemned Trump for drone strikes and his relationship with the Saudis.
Did you condemn Trump for vetoing the resolution in April 2019? It's incredulous, in fact, that if you supposedly were interested in Yemen, you would gloss over Trump's relationship with MBS, while then condemning Biden for the same thing. Did you condemn the weapons deals that occurred between November 2020 and the inauguration, which included weapon sales to both major members of the coalition? Or the July 2019 weapons sales to KSA, the UAE or Jordan?
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:51 pm to OMLandshark
It’s al jaziera. It’s likely a lie.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 9:03 pm to crazy4lsu
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Did you condemn Trump for vetoing the resolution in April 2019? It's incredulous, in fact, that if you supposedly were interested in Yemen, you would gloss over Trump's relationship with MBS, while then condemning Biden for the same thing. Did you condemn the weapons deals that occurred between November 2020 and the inauguration, which included weapon sales to both major members of the coalition? Or the July 2019 weapons sales to KSA, the UAE or Jordan?
I don’t know all these deals on the top of my head. I know I condemned the bombing of Syria, the relationship with the Saudis, and even killing Solemani although I would later change my mind on that since it actually worked out. Those 3 I can tell you for certain.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 9:10 pm to OMLandshark
The Saudis already conquered our arse. We fund their genocides and bomb their enemies.
I look forward to President Harris' condemnation of KSA on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 this year.
I look forward to President Harris' condemnation of KSA on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 this year.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 9:11 pm to OMLandshark
The Trump admin's role in providing weapons to these nations, despite lawmaker protests, is alarming, and I don't necessarily understand the point of relating it to Biden specifically, when Trump for the most part greenlighted an alarming amount of weapons deals. The resolution he vetoed included a ban on weapons sales to countries involved in Yemen. The Biden admin actually did a good thing by suspending those December agreements, though we will see if they will come through and cancel them entirely. It seems like you are purposefully attempting to pin everything on Biden, while ignoring Trump's massive role in the Yemen situation, both through his relationship with MBS and MBZ and his arms deals. Trump, with the exception of Syria, literally went along with the FP establishment in pretty much every way. He talked a big game, but produced little in that regard.
Killing Soleimani absolutely did not work out.
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killing Solemani although I would later change my mind on that since it actually worked out.
Killing Soleimani absolutely did not work out.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 9:17 pm to crazy4lsu
Well can’t say I knew everything, but that’s how I’ve felt about Trump’s policies I remember when it comes to this.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 9:19 pm to OMLandshark
Par for the course for the evil empire that is the United States of America:
Posted on 3/23/21 at 9:20 pm to OMLandshark
These are widely reported facts known to anyone who has been following the situation in Yemen the last 6 years. It doesn't seem like you knew anything about the situation, to be honest.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 9:23 pm to crazy4lsu
Ehh, you blame everything on trump.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 9:31 pm to dgnx6
Not really. I've been consistently critical of US FP since 2011 at the minimum (on this board at least), with numerous posts on the myopia of US FP. With regard to FP, I'm not understating Trump's role in pushing weapons agreements during his tenure. Nor am I understating the relationship Trump had with MBS. The board seems to have a problem when I suggest Trump didn't venture all that far from US FP orthodoxy, especially with regards to Iran. His one significant departure was with regard to boots on the ground in Syria, while he still continued the airstrikes. His normalization agreements between Israel and its neighbors I thought was good, but you can't characterize anything about the "maximum pressure" campaign as effective, as it didn't lead to the regime change that Netanyahu wanted, nor did it bring the Iranians back to the negotiating table, like Kushner suggested.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 9:33 pm to OMLandshark
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be fair to Biden, this certainly could have occurred under Trump and I would have blasted him for it as well
Yea the Houthi rebels are just such fine,innocent folks with their swell Iranian compadres.
BTW,Biden agrees with you about KSA so you got that going for you...which is nice.
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