Sanders Pulls Resolution That Would End U.S. Support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen...WHO CARES?
Joe Biden has been criticized for supporting the genocidal war in Yemen despite earlier pledges
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Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Tuesday that he would not introduce his war powers resolution that would end the Biden administration’s support of Saudi Arabia’s atrocities in Yemen.
“I look forward to working with the administration who is opposed to this resolution and see if we can come up with something that is strong and effective. If we do not, I will be back,” Sanders said, according to The Intercept.
The Trends Journal reached out to Sanders’s office for comment.
One social media user wrote, “President Joe Biden actually whipped opposition to vote against the bill that would end the US involvement in a starvation campaign & war in Yemen that has killed thousands of innocent children. And Bernie Sanders was too cowardly to even call a vote on it.”
The report indicated that the White House’s position is that it is working behind the scenes for a diplomatic solution and the ceasefire that was announced a few months ago has been holding up, so leave well-enough alone.
Jamal Benomar, a former U.N. under-secretary-general, questioned the White House’s claim that it was working on a diplomatic solution.
“There’s been no diplomatic progress whatsoever,” he told the outlet. “There’s been no political process, no negotiations, or even a prospect of them. So an all-out war can resume at any time.”
History
Yemen’s civil war started in 2014, when the Houthis, who were ruling large sections of Yemen for over 1,000 years, overthrew the unelected president put in control by the Saudis. The Houthis eventually took control of Sana’a, and then seized the presidential palace.
The Saudi-backed coalition was concerned that Houthi rule in Yemen would mean rival Iran would gain a foothold at the border with Saudi Arabia.
The U.A.E. pulled most of its troops out of Yemen in 2019 but the Saudis and other members of the coalition were unable to keep the Houthis at bay, especially in the oil-and gas-rich Marib province.
President Joe Biden was vice president under President Obama when the U.S. became involved in the conflict.
The Biden administration has essentially kept the same policies in place as America’s Noble Peace of Crap Prize winner, Obama, who supported the war… despite vowing to end the war.
Western officials blamed the Houthis for getting stronger with less expensive tools.
Abdulghani Al-Iryani, a senior researcher at the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies, told The New York Times last summer, “What we are seeing in Yemen is technology being the great equalizer. Your F-15 that costs millions of dollars means nothing because I have my drone that costs a few thousand dollars that will do just as much damage.”
Biden was credited for removing the Houthis from the “terror” list after the Trump administration, but now seems to be reneging on the idea.
Iman Saleh, the general coordinator of the Yemeni Liberation Movement, told Al Jazeera that reapplying the Houthis to the list would “starve millions of Yemenis and he [Biden] knows that.”
TREND FORECAST: The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen that is playing out due to Saudi Arabia’s attack on the nation.
Thus, we maintain our forecast that the Saudi/U.S. alliance will not defeat the Houthis, and the war will rage on, killing tens of thousands of innocent people while inflicting devastating and deadly hardship across the nation.
The war will continue to be ignored by the mainstream media and the vast majority of the world will be ignorant to the human suffering the United States and Saudi Arabia have inflicted upon the nation.