Ceasfire also just concluded after a month, where the Saudis committed over 5000 truce violations including more than 41 airstrikes on residential buildings.
so liberals will be calling to cut off saudi arabia from the world, right?
being an islamist absolute monarchy
Not a bug, but a feature. American geopolitical strategy of the 1950s was all about backing theocratic dictatorships across the Middle East and Pacific Rim. This mostly meant KMT-style ultra-nationalist Catholics in countries like China, Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines. But Wahhabism was weaponized as a counter to secular Communism for decades.
But the US pivot to domestic gas production under Bush did irreparable damage to US-Saudi relations. We’re no longer the Saudis’ biggest export market. We’re one of its biggest competitors. And since we refused to partner with OPEC to fix prices…
Fortunately there are no Ukrainians or white people under threat in this genocide.
omg I hope we send 8 billion dollars of military equipment to Yemen
We did?
To help, right?
Well the Houthis seized a lot of that equipment, so in a roundabout way we did
Libs will get mad when leftists bring this up wrt Russia-Ukraine
Good unpopular opinion post
“It’s absolutely disgusting that some people will stand by while a rich, heavily armed and powerful oil rich state invades its smaller sovereign neighbor with the purpose of annexing its territory, or be complicit with that regime by continuing to trade with it or worse arming it. Any country that participates in this should be dissolved, have it’s leaders tried at The Hague and executed.”
Let it hit r/all then edit the post to read “of course I am speaking of the Saudi invasion of Yemen”
Conservatives: No White People? Not our problem!
Libs: Oh those poor Yemenis, but hey it’s just part and parcel for the third world to do this, unlike Ukraine, which is a White Western Civilized country being invaded by Putler and the Asiatic Hordes. Not our problem!
