The only reason the US is seeking to shame KSA is because MBS has decided to buy the Russian S400 in preference to the US THAAD – costing the US over $110 billion dollars in arms sales and profitting instead Russia. Unthinkable. Images of Yemen children starving have been around for all of 2018 but only now do the western and Saudi alliance seize on the death of the US asset – Kashoggi – to show concerns for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen? The ceasefire calls are threefold. The first is to teach MBS not to buy Russian goods and only nominally any concerns for their murderous affiliation with the criminal Saudi regime, but most assuredly, as Finnian has stated in this article, to impose yet another corrupt western puppet on the suffering Yemeni people and stop the Houthi pluralist and demoratic government from being established.
US, Britain Push Yemen Ceasefire as Tactic to Defeat Houthis
At first glance, it may seem like a positive move. The Trump administration and London are both putting pressure on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to implement a ceasefire in Yemen’s atrocious war. Washington and London are also calling for warring sides to enter into peace negotiations within a month.
What’s wrong with that, you may ask? Well, as Houthi rebels who took over Yemen at the end of 2014 are saying, the country has been under aggression for the past three years from a Saudi-led coalition supported militarily by the US, Britain and France. The unrelenting war on the poorest country in the Middle East has led to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in decades, with over half of the population – some 14 million people – at risk of starvation, according…
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