The New York Times has a new article on the growing famine across Yemen. The piece details the difficulty, and at times impossibility, of getting food in parts of Yemen. This is presented in the context of a Saudi-led, US-backed war in Yemen that has been killing thousands of civilians.
Citing aid experts and UN officials, the report reveals this is not just happenstance. Rather, it reveals the famine as a deliberate part of the Saudi war strategy, a way of grinding Yemen’s always struggling economy to a halt, by making sure too many people are starving.
The article provides an overall look at the economic disaster several years of war and Saudi policy have brought to Yemen. While it is a bit light on details of American involvement in the war, it still provides a lot of previously unreported details.
A journalist getting whacked pisses off the world but starving children don’t. There is no hope.
How many pictures of starving children do we have to see before we realize that geopoliticians don’t give a flying f-ck about actual human beings?
They haven’t cared for over 100 years now. Civilians are pawns in their game of domination. To think they come from our ranks, like a festering cancer is a sickening fact of the evils democracy propagates.
Democracy means nothing if a nation does not control its money. Geopolitics for the international money is just a chessboard of their sick ambitions. And they go on and on, using the contrllled nations to crush others, until only few are left to resist economically or militarily. Then inevitable disaster, and it starts all over.
And as much as I do not care about Saudi royals, nor believe in reform stories — i hate factual errors, as they compound our problems with perception. War on Yemen has started under Mohhamed bin Nayaf, former crown prince, and absolutevCIA darling. Being Minister of Defence in Saudi terms means nothing. He is not a decision maker. MbS was appointed Minister of Defence and head of Aramco after King Salman and Saudi Arabia had their arms twisted by US to appoint MbN. MbS being King’s son, was more of a spy fot the old man, then a decision maker. Ministers do not decide. They may over time appoint more of their loyalists — but MbS had no time to do even that. It was Nayaf, under US guidance that started reckless Saudi adventures, or increased others. War in Yemen, and arming and ideologically controlling armies of Islamic cults in the Middle East and elsewhere, such as Africa and Asia. The recklessnes of Nayaf was the reason Saudi top body advising King sacked him, and elevated King’s son. And before things go into memory hole, let us remember how our press fawned over Nayaf, almost to absurdity. It went as far as spreading lues that King was demented, had Alzeheimers, and needed to abdicate so Nayaf woud be the King and appoint another Crown Prince to our liking — solving the Kingdom control for a while. It did not work. Saudi ruling council was alarmed enough to sack Nayaf. The “demented” King then travelled to Russia on a week long trip, cementing a relationship to send a message. MbS was then treated as a danger from day one, while Trump just assured personal relationship to protect US interests. It did not please those that wanted to get rid of MbS, so now is the opportunity to flash starving chilxren in front of our faces, to approve MbS demonization. The proposed international settlement l, with the cast of characters we chose to get control of Bab Al Mandeb, some mixed control of Hodridah to keep Shia North starving until they agree to our terms. US already alliwed UAE to take control of South Yemen.
But it is not to be, at least not as planned. MbS internal enemues aided a bit from spooks, organized the spectacle called Kashoggi murder. But Turkey had it covered, wall to wall — clearly having up frknt idea that something is afoot. So, if Saudi ruling council wobbles, they will have to sack King not only his son. That would split the country. Trump idea to praise the Kjng, but sack his son — not holding water. And after a oeriod of attempted negotiated cover up, now it is all out war. The investigation, coordination of prosecutors from Turkey and Saudi Arabia point to the direction — identifying the organizers and their helpers. This is why Gena flew to Turkey, to find out if certain fingerprints are present.
The outcome may be a/ internal Saudi compromise with some lisers being thrown under bus, or all out clean up of apparatus of coup organizers, Turkey style. It is kess likely at this stage that MbS will be ousted. Even if assasinated, it appears that King’s council will not wobble, and King remains strong. And the investment conference was not damaged by Kashoggi murder, as crown prince got a standing ovation.
Democracy is how we LOST control of our money.
Especially here in the United States of Amnesia. We would have to develop some sort of collective memory that extends back before the last news cycle, or the last horrible false-flag event.
It’s easy to feel a bit beaten-up by the intense pictures of starvation in the NY Times article, especially for those who have seen such things many times before. The article also focuses excessively on personal stories rather than the big picture. Yet the Times is seen by many as an impartial and credible source, and they pretty bluntly called out Saudi Arabia for their “economic warfare” on Yemen being the main cause of the famine. The note it ends on challenges the western reader implicitly, that our governments have tolerated the Saudis behavior, letting them get away with murder (a million times over). It’s good to see some honesty in the mainstream.