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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: 2) by Arik on Saturday February 06 2021, @08:07AM

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday February 06 2021, @08:07AM (#1109571)
    "Which isn't saying much since that democracy got into trouble in the first place because they stole a massive amount of oil infrastructure from the UK. That's not reasonable in the first place."

    Dude. Think.

    I come onto your land, I shoot you. I build oil pumps, I give your kid a cent or two on the dollar. I treat him like shit, boss him around, and eventually he just throws me off.

    He keeps the oil pumps, well the 1 in 10 that I didn't manage to sabotage on the way out.

    He "stole" them? Really?

    This is boot licker logic. I thought better of you. Boot liquor, fine, but boot licker, no.

    "The citizenship of some terrorists doesn't imply national involvement."

    Sure, sure, just because most of them came from KSA doesn't mean the KSA government sent them. No necessarily.

    What's funny is how the information about whether or not they were *actually* backed by the KSA government is still classified.

    It's not that "we" don't know. "We" just decided not to tell you. Now shut up and forget about it.

    "Second, the choice we were alleged to be given was Saudi Arabia and Israel, or Iran. If you could make a case for Iran and Israel, then I would be interested since that would imply some serious progress towards peace in the Middle East."

    If I'm understanding this right you left a word out. A case for Iran and Israël coöperating? We've only been partners for centuries. Iran is the only large Muslim country that still has a significant Jewish population, and doesn't suppress them (at least notably moreso than the rest of the population.) Jews and Persians have been living side by side and respecting each other in Iran for well over 2k years. There's no reason the countries should not coöperate as well, in the large view. In the small view, they do not coöperate because the Israëli government feels perfectly safe within their US umbrella, feels no need to compromise with anyone.

    Remove that US umbrella, let Yisraël feel fear for a moment, let us think who else might help us.

    Oh Lord, the Persians. Sucks we've spent nearly 100 years making enemies of them. I really hope they can forgive.

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