A monthly summary from the Yemen Data Project of the Saudi-led coalition’s air war in Yemen found January 2022 was the most violent month for civilians since 2016.
According to the data, 139 civilians were killed by Saudi air raids, and another 287 were wounded. It was the highest number of civilian casualties recorded in a single month since October 2016.
The deadliest air raid of the month hit a migrant detention facility in Sadaa on January 21st, which killed at least 91 civilians and wounded at least 237. The prison bombing was preceded by Saudi airstrikes on telecommunication infrastructure that also killed civilians and caused nationwide internet outages.
Yemen Data Project said the internet outage “had widespread impact on civilian communications and media coverage in another blow to accountability. Within hours the Saudi-led coalition carried out one of the deadliest bombings of the seven-year air campaign.”
Other major incidents include air raids on residential areas of the Maain district in the capital Sanaa, which killed 14 civilians, including five women and a child. Three separate airstrikes on vehicles and buses killed at least 17 civilians, including three children. Saudi airstrikes also hit hospitals, a food truck, and a food storage unit.
The Saudi escalation came after the Houthis launched missile and drone attacks against the UAE, a response to Abu Dhabi’s role in the war on Yemen that has been raging since 2015. The UAE likes to downplay its role in the war, but Abu Dhabi’s support for militants on the ground in Yemen has brought the Saudi-backed government recent success on the battlefield against the Houthis.
The US has responded to the Houthi attacks by escalating its role in the war and is sending a warship and F-22 fighter jets to the UAE. This support has been framed as “defensive” in nature. But again, the Houthis wouldn’t be attacking their neighbors if not for the Saudi-led war, which is only able to continue due to US support. Experts agree that if the US stopped servicing Saudi warplanes, Riyadh’s air force would quickly be grounded.
Another tar-baby, …and another proof of the military incompetence, despite all the gold-plated high-tech munitions, of the Saudis. And as for war crimes, it’s gotten like a Narco competition in barbarity.
And people say Biden is senile. Yet he was able to kill more civilians since 2016 while just crossing out the “O’s” on those bombs and replacing then with “D’s”. And nary a peep out of those so-called anti-war types in his own party who were screaming bloody murder when Trump was doing the same.
Just in case anyone missed reading this:
“One year ago this month, President Joe Biden made Yemen the focus of his first foreign-policy speech, in which he declared, “this war has to end.”
Naturally, headlines declared the end of US military operations in Yemen, but I couldn’t help but be skeptical of Biden’s intentions. I questioned why he followed that declaration with, “we are ending all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales.”
When civilians are being killed in airstrikes during weddings and funerals with US-supplied weapons, aren’t all arms sales to countries dropping the bombs relevant? How can modern-day siege warfare in the form of a naval, land, and aerial blockade not be considered “offensive”?”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-merely-rebranded-brutal-war-161846765.html
This president may turn out to be a disaster. He has spent a career in foreign policy in an era where US was comming into the apex of its power. Consequently, being positioned in circles where decisions are made -/ he is accustomed to the maximalist posture in foreign policy. Anything that went wrong was always conidered to be merely an outcome of not doing enough, not being decisive enough.
World has fundamentally changed, and different kind of leaders are needed. People without political blinkers, to avoid overreach and poor judgment based on built in groupthink no longer valid.
I see this in the manner in which Russia’s cincern for European security has been handled so far, Typical, transparent hype — Russia will invade. And than if Russia does not invade, Russia was deterred due to our resolute action! And a real benefit – – get European countries to goosestep in tune to our marching order. Ans have European Commission and NATO increase their supranational controls.
But this is s game of checkers, while Russia and China play 3-D chess. In fact, there are multiple actions on many fronts — as we speak. And in some of them US and Uzm actually think they have the initiative while led down the primrose path.
One such example is the CIA connection to be inserted into Afghanistan via Haqqani network. Qatar is the base, while Qatar and Turkey will manage Kabul airport.
For all CIA cleverness, they are underestimating to their peril the role of SCO. Qatar, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan — all members. We are just giving legitimacy to Iran, Qatar, Turkey triangle. Whatevet US thinks is gaining — will.be for naught. Worse, it is paying for SCO infrastructure in Adfganiistan. Why? Thinking that Turkey and Qatar are ours for the asking.
Mega deal in place with Iran. Russia — 20 year deal, China 25 year deal. All encompassiing. Infrastructure, connectivity between Middle East and Asia, energy, security, military technology cooperation, consumer goods, etc. Iran and Qatar share the common gas field.
Separately, China is hosting Imran Khan, a major and very open long term deal in the making. Such is the deal with Egypt in the works.
Turkey’s deals with both Russia and China show the debth and the maturity in the structure of economies, mutual food assurances, nuclear energy. While the collectibe West laughed at Erdogan’s reducing interest rates in the face of inflation, Turkey ended up with trade surplus and money in treasury. Why? Turkey imports Chinese semi-products and exporting finished products to Europe.
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