Despite repeatedly White House expressions of confidence that the Saudis are definitely going to start letting aid into Yemen at some point, the Saudis have shown no sign of doing so. Privately, the US has been a bit more blunt with them about the potential consequences.
The Trump Administration is trying to sell easing humanitarian aid as a way to placate the US Congress, where mounting concerns about the war crimes being committed in Yemen are seeing votes on US arms sales to the Saudi kingdom increasingly difficult to squeeze through.
The public statements from the White House are getting more frequent, with two statements on Wednesday and Friday of the past week, and officials saying over the weekend they expect more in the coming weeks, suggesting they don’t believe the Saudis will so easily allow food into Yemen.
Since the US has at times participated in the blockade themselves, lawyers in the administration have been said to be concerned the US would be legally complicit in the deaths resulting from the blockade. If indeed it lasts weeks more, that number could mount substantially.
Hello, do you hear Mr Clown Prince MbS….. You are making a fool of yourself, and a violent nuthouse of a State as your trademark… The triple Ell…. Lose, lose, & Losers….of KSA…!!!!!
There is more to this then meets the eye. Petrodollars are at stake. Doubt anything to do with Yemen directly.
“…concerned the US would be legally complicit in the deaths resulting from the blockade.”
News flash, the US is already complicit…now. The event horizon for being complicit was when they supplied the Saudis with the first shipment of weapons and most surely when they put that first ship in the blockade. So…too late.
What evidence is there of this actually happening?
I am certain that the Houthis do charge a distribution fee, or tax, because they are the government in those areas.