Ceasfire also just concluded after a month, where the Saudis committed over 5000 truce violations including more than 41 airstrikes on residential buildings.
so liberals will be calling to cut off saudi arabia from the world, right?
being an islamist absolute monarchy
Not a bug, but a feature. American geopolitical strategy of the 1950s was all about backing theocratic dictatorships across the Middle East and Pacific Rim. This mostly meant KMT-style ultra-nationalist Catholics in countries like China, Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines. But Wahhabism was weaponized as a counter to secular Communism for decades.
But the US pivot to domestic gas production under Bush did irreparable damage to US-Saudi relations. We're no longer the Saudis' biggest export market. We're one of its biggest competitors. And since we refused to partner with OPEC to fix prices...
I wouldn't even call it hypocritical so much as dogmatic. We're clinging to these old alliances almost out of reflex.
Saudi Arabia isn’t siding with Russia, they are just trying to stay neutral to maximize their own leverage and profits. They are mad at the west for not genociding enough Yemenis and for caring about them chainsawing journalists
cant believe this is happening in the 21st century smh my head
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Fortunately there are no Ukrainians or white people under threat in this genocide.
Yemen is about to be annexed and the genocide of Yemen has killed hundreds of thousands of children
The Collective West: … who?
omg I hope we send 8 billion dollars of military equipment to Yemen
We did?
To help, right?
Well the Houthis seized a lot of that equipment, so in a roundabout way we did
Libs will get mad when leftists bring this up wrt Russia-Ukraine
Good unpopular opinion post
“It’s absolutely disgusting that some people will stand by while a rich, heavily armed and powerful oil rich state invades its smaller sovereign neighbor with the purpose of annexing its territory, or be complicit with that regime by continuing to trade with it or worse arming it. Any country that participates in this should be dissolved, have it’s leaders tried at The Hague and executed.”
Let it hit r/all then edit the post to read “of course I am speaking of the Saudi invasion of Yemen”
last week half those libs called for an invasion of The Solomon Islands because they made a security agreement with China
I believe it's related to the lemon, a citrussy fruit you can ate.
they can barely deal with the houthis rn with their terrible military, how do they think they'll keep those provinces under control?
A related question, why would they try? I’m just not sure what they gain by de jure controlling the territory. I imagine they have significant de facto power as-is, considering all the suffering in Yemen
They are annexing the provinces already under control of their puppet government
Saudi Arabia isn’t defending themselves from NATO encroachment and fascists either, so their casus belli is even weaker. They just are imperialists bullying a small peaceful nation and normal citizens who resist them.
Conservatives: No White People? Not our problem!
Libs: Oh those poor Yemenis, but hey it's just part and parcel for the third world to do this, unlike Ukraine, which is a White Western Civilized country being invaded by Putler and the Asiatic Hordes. Not our problem!
We are already intervening, on behalf of Saudi Arabia. The Yemeni people merely request that we stop and leave them alone
It was two countries, we demanded they unify and removed the communist government. God damn I hate this shit
While Usa diplomatic pretzels will be hilarious, poor yemen people (yemenese?) :sadness:
Woah no way, if this was true there'd be so much more news about it!!
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The US provided Saudis with 100s of Millions of USD worth of weapons with which they carried out a genocidal bombing campaign, resulting in the countless deaths of non-combatants, women and children, the destruction of schools, hospitals, power plants, and sanitation facilities. Yemen experienced the largest cholera outbreak in modern history as a result of being unable to get trash collected, after the bombing campaign.
nobody cares. nobody cares about Yemenis, Libyans, Somalians. Everyone cares about the swastika-clad Ukrainian crackers who've been bombing donetsk for 8 years. And even they are easily forgotten about in favor of will smith slapping someone, or amber heard and johnny depp bickering in court.
