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Biden ending US support for Saudi-led offensive in Yemen

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President Joe Biden will announce an end Thursday to U.S. support for a grinding five-year Saudi-led military offensive in Yemen that has deepened human suffering in the Arabian peninsula’s poorest country, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.

Biden ending US support for Saudi-led offensive in Yemen

 

Reply to: Re:One good thing

    (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2021, @11:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2021, @11:17AM (#1109259)

    Reasonable like they were during the Iran hostage crisis?

    They were certainly more reasonable when they had a democracy. And then the CIA overthrew it.

    As for terrorism, I could point out that 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. Or that Saudi Arabia is the largest exporter of terrorism in the world.

    Or Iran's support for some shifty governments of the world (Assad's Syrian faction and Venezuela)

    Or the US's support for the authoritarian terrorist state of Saudi Arabia.

    Here, what's the "strong negative" to regional peace from the Israel-Saudi axis? Answer: Iran. Yemen would probably be at war no matter what happened. But the Saudis are there because Iran is there. It's a mini-cold war with moves by one power opposed by the other.

    Saudi Arabia is doing a genocide in Yemen. There can be no justification for that.

    I mean, it's not that Iran is good, but since when does someone have to be good for us to have relations with them?

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