How can anyone condone US support for the genocide in Yemen.

@chrisCA Understandable but then the U.S. gets most of its oil from Canada, Venezuela and its domestic production.

@Mugin16 I doubt many know that. Lol
Quiet about Venezuela. We don't want the Americans to get any ideas. 😏

@chrisCA Looks like the U.S. government is planning an illegal naval blockade of Venezuela.

@LvChris Ninety three thousand kids have starved to death in Yemen thus far. I know you're joking but sadly it wasn't even accurate.

@chrisCA Wow, how did I forget about Kuwait?

@chrisCA The Kuwaiti goverment hired the right PR firms and lobbyists in Washington, D.C., obviously.

@Mugin16 Now that's absolutely fucking bonkers.

@BlueMetalChick I'll look into that bill

@abe182 I highly suggest you check out the author, Ro Khanna. He's one of the most honest, least corrupt, and most populist people in Congress at the moment. Antiwar, pro-worker, anti-establishment, supports a combination of shrinking the size of welfare programs by increasing the amount of money workers make and busting up big banks. Dude's a real one.

@BlueMetalChick I will definitely be checking him out. Thanks BMC

@NativeOregonian I lived through ten years of that shit and I'm still a lunatic from it.

@BlueMetalChick *hugs* I am so very sorry you had to go through what you did :(

@HoraceGreenley Oh, in that case yeah, most citizens are fairly in the dark about the situation on the Arabian Peninsula.

Shockingly, it was one of my least favorite news outlets - CNN - that covered the Yemeni genocide recently and did a pretty good job.

@HoraceGreenley We should stop supporting Saudi Arabia on the ethical and spiritual grounds that their track record with human rights is abysmal. That's what we should do.

@CopperCicada I agree with your assessment of Saudi Arabia's track record. But countries have interests based on their own self-interest.

@JaggedLittlePill It all started in 1989 when Sunni-controlled Northern Yemen and Shi'a-controlled Southern Yemen went to war with each other. The conflict lasted about one year, and in 1990 the Sunni government was cast out and both Northern and Southern were unified under one Shi'ite government and simply called Yemen.

America hates Shi'a Islam though because of Iran and so the USA decided they couldn't let Yemen be controlled by Shi'ites, so they needed a way to kick out the Shi'ite government and reinstall the former Sunni leaders. They wanted to invade, but they couldn't because the international community would eviscerate the US politicians for doing so. Unlike Iraq with Saddam Hussein or Libya with Muammar Gaddafi, Yemen was not under the control of a tyrannical dictator who was abusing human rights, and so there was no convenient scapegoat to blame for an invasion plan.

So instead, America asked the Saudis if they could "contract" them. Basically, USA gives Saudi lots of weapons and money, and Saudi fights the war in Yemen in exchange. And this went on for quite some time until 2014 when the US-Saudi Coalition was born, and America formally joined the conflict.

Since then, the situation has gone from pretty bad to hell on Earth. The Coalition blockade has resulted in pestilence and famine because no food, water, or medicine is allowed into the country. The drinking supply is contaminated with cholera which is completely curable but no medicine is being allowed into Yemen so anyone with cholera is going to die. Pretty much everything in sight is being bombed, whether it be a school, a hospital, a post office, a bank, a marketplace, or even just large groups of people congregated together. It's an absolute fucking disaster.

@BlueMetalChick I did read about what was happening there...which is all very fucking sickening. I just did not know why and how it started. Admittedly, I have been ignorant to this topic until now.

This is fucked.

@JaggedLittlePill It is fucked, you're right. As of March of this year, the State Department reported about 93,000 confirmed deaths of Yemeni children aged 5 or younger due to starvation.

We starved almost one hundred thousand little kids to death. This shit keeps me awake at night.

@LvChris I remember that "Agrabah" incident. What an embarrassment.

@LvChris They found out Prince Ali was shady? Abu must have been the mastermind.