I still remember when one of the concessions (only concession at the time?) was “we’ll stop calling you terrorists”, as though Yemen was desperate to suck up to fickle Western opinions. I still remember when I saw a video of a Yemeni farmer who went to the states to beg congress to stop selling bombs to Saudi Arabia, recounting the horrors they faced when death could drop on them at any time with zero warning because they’d never see the jet above them, their children frightened of death coming without warning.
Our government can’t be reasoned with, if you make the mistake of thinking you’re dealing with human beings it’ll be your funeral.
Do you remember the name of that video?
I wish, I haven’t seen it in forever and trying to google it isn’t helping. I found this, and perhaps this might be what I saw, although I feel certain what I saw was a guy dressed in Yemeni clothes rather than a business suit (this guy is from a farming family, so it’s possible it’s this testimony and some racism is playing its way into my recollection):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIb0wMfOFhw
EDIT: Also I faintly recall the guy talking about drone bombs but couldn’t fathom why he’d be asking Congress to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia to stop drone bombings; it’s entirely possible it’s my recollection being somewhat caricaturizing and this is the video in question.
@1family4me 10 years ago
Get used to this term: blowback. Coming soon to a city near you.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Please we’re begging you, we’ll do anything if you just let us keep slaughtering countless innocent civilians. It’s the only thing we want to do. Please just let us shed more and more blood we’ll do literally anything you want except stop the murder.
Americans in the impossible position of choosing between
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Kill more brown people
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Make money shipping another cargo container full of novelty sex asses
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We need to do it for him
I honestly thought you were deliberately exaggerating, but the article suggests exactly that!
Informed Yemeni sources reveal to The Cradle that the US offered Sanaa – in exchange for its neutrality in the ongoing Gaza war – “an acknowledgment of its legitimacy [as government of Yemen].”
This would involve severely reducing the role of the Saudi-backed Presidential Council led by Rashid al-Alimi and accelerating the signing of a roadmap with Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to end the aggression against Yemen.
The sources further reveal that the Americans pledged to immediately release withheld Yemeni public sector salaries from the National Saudi Bank, lift the country’s siege entirely, reopen Sanaa Airport, ease restrictions on the port of Hodeidah, and facilitate a comprehensive prisoner exchange agreement with all involved parties.
I know the US never honors its promises, but that’s quite the list.
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Uhmmm… No.
I do not bestow this award upon the Houthis lightly, but
Israel: I have the U.S.A, U.K., K.S.A. and the rest of the western world on my side, who do you have with you?
The group conveniently named Ansar Allah:
time to own my buttigieg-supporting apartment mate who was convinced by Vox
that the houthis are actually just doing realpolitik to improve their position rather than having ideological principlesbuttigieg-supporting apartment mate
Those still exist?
Yes and unfortunately he still believes the houthis are somehow waiting for an even better deal with the US and ideology isn’t motivating them
US: I’d do anything for treats, but I won’t do that (not commit genocide)
Envy is a sin and all, but I wish I was a quarter as cool as those in Ansarallah.
It also probably doesn’t help the evil empire’s chances of horse trading their way out of this that people remember how it went with the Iran nuclear deal. There’s a reason why Russian diplomats had to invent a word messaging agreement-incapable to describe the yanks. Negotiating with these demons is a waste of time.
What’s the word that they invented? I couldn’t tell from your comment?
“Not Agreement Capable” (недоговороспособны) is a term Russian diplomats came up with to describe their American counterparts, after each deal in Syria seemingly fell apart during the Obama Administration’s lame duck phase, with the Pentagon ‘accidentally’ bombing Syrian government troops or otherwise sabotaging deconfliction agreements established to fight ISIS.
The fact that this information has gotten out is intentional on the part of the US. They are hoping that people knowing about it applies pressure on Ansarallah from people/parties that were not part of or aware of the things offered.
I don’t think anyone outside of yemen can actually apply any kind of pressure on ansarallah. That’s only possible from the inside, and I don’t think anyone INSIDE would want to put any pressure on them.
Yemen is pretty unanimous with the blockade
I’m not saying that there are people outside of Yemen that can. I’m saying that the US releasing this information is to try and apply pressure inside if there are any parties who might’ve been enticed by what’s been offered. Given that the offer is pretty much everything I do think there will be some that consider it worth taking, the question is whether they’re anywhere close to influential - probably not.
I’m still baffled by the need to kill everyone in Gaza. Like what could be in Gaza that’s so necessary you’d have to kill everyone? I know there are gas reserves but how much could there possibly be? Is it all for a seaside resort? That seems dumb. WHAT IS IT MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
Lebensraum.
That still doesn’t really satisfy the answer imho this isn’t the 1940’s and Hitler pretty much proved lebensraum doesn’t really work. The other methods Israel was using were working “fine” although still a horrible situation. Why increase the speed? Why go through the possibility of a regional conflict? Why risk literally everything just to kill? It doesn’t make any sense and genuinely puts both Israeli and American interests in danger to the point you just have to look at the whole picture and think there has to be some reason for all this to be happening. There is no way this is just the bruised ego of some fascist government who can’t cope with the fact they aren’t as good as they think they are, but without some kind of proof I don’t know what else to think.
Israel is a genocidal apartheid state. I’m not sure what the point you’re trying to make is. They’re obviously doing ethnic cleansing so they can move settlers into Gaza and the West Bank. Just because you can understand that it’s a bad tactic doesn’t mean they’re not doing it.
It doesn’t make any sense
yeah they’re fascists. making sense isn’t even a requirement.
the occupation sadly doesn’t see anyone outside themselves as human
Remember last week when libs were like “Biden called for a ceasefire so it’s over!”
Let’s normalise the No chad!!
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