The poorest nation in the Middle East, Yemen doesn’t produce a lot of its own food. Over 90 percent of the food consumed in the country, including virtually all of its wheat and rice, is imported from abroad, generally by ships.
That’s a big problem as the Saudi war picks up pace, as Saudi and coalition warships patrol the waters around the nation, blockading ports controlled by the Houthis. Since the situation is so dangerous and quickly changing, most ships are just skipping Yemen outright.
Food prices are already rising dramatically, and a lot of shops are running short on supplies at any price. Locals are desperately trying to stockpile, fearing a long war and the lack of either commercial or humanitarian shipments from the outside world.
Several major container shipping lines have confirmed they are suspending all shipments to Yemen, fearing for the safety of their vessels. Aid groups are trying to get into the country, but the Red Cross in particular has been struggling to get Saudi permission to do so.
While there was a fair amount of food already in the country when the war began, shipments of petroleum were similarly halted, and most gas stations nationwide are already out, with no hope of additional supplies any time soon.
"Blockade"?
That's a war crime in an undeclared state of war. Who's doing that?
The US wants to be held up as that Shining City on the Hill, a refuge for the poor and needy – a humanitarian nation for those who are persecuted around the world. Bullsh!t I say. We have become no better than those we've declared as cretins. It amazes me that the UN, long a target and punching bag for the warmongers of the US, has not declared the US in violation of many of the founding principles of the UN. The US has revealed that we are not a humanitarian society but are the opposite, in fact. It's time for the rest of the world to point out the truth and declare the US as criminal and rogue.
Solution — If society is willing
We are all born with a different ability to achieve wealth, which is most excellent as it gives everyone an opportunity to experience the bonding elements of society, namely compassion, pity and charity in a way that produces a grateful response. So, instead of the educated upper half of society hoarding all the wealth, everyone should pass their excessive wealth down to the lower half and 99% of crime would disappear.
Solution — If society is unwilling
Pass a law to stop the upper half from hoarding more then 75% of the wealth. This would allow a forth of the wealth to trickle down to the impoverished lower half in the form of a living wage.
Solution — If society is suicidal
As allowing the rich ruling-class to hoard 75% of all the wealth in the richest Empire the world has ever known will surely kill us all, make it a crime to give a penny to any politician. Fund elections by taxes and kick the rich out of government.
Another humanitarian crisis on the making? This one-also-has Made in the USA written all over it, though the Saudi henchmen are doing the killing this time. Interesting they cannot stand against ISIS so they attack the Houthis. Soon Americans-who the US refuses to rescue because it is ¨too dangerous for its troops¨-will start to die, giving the US a new chance to yell and rant against…Iran. If it wasn´t for the Iranians the Saudis would not have to kill Americans stranded there. Would they be stranded if they were called Smith, Jones or Mc Cain
Just one more US war crime.
World without a conscience
The family of dictators who rule Saudi Arabia for pleasure, pride and glory, are they killer robots or creatures without a conscience from another planet? For a conscience makes one so grateful for the free gift of life that most guilty do they feel if ever they fail to give all they can give.
And the upper half of society in both Saudi Arabia and USA, those who own all the wealth and do the slave driving for the greedy rich, are they likewise non-humans without a conscience? Yes, for the purpose of this world is the reach the ultimate conclusion of what happens when everyone strives to enrich themselves upon the misery of the weaker.
What say you, did you ever buy fruit or vegetables knowing full well that they were hand picked by 5 year old migrant workers, slaving in the hot sun for less then minimum wage?