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Shjfty t1_ja92k5t wrote
Western countries supplying aid to rebuild Yemen while at the same time arming Saudi Arabia is kinda funny ngl
PEVEI t1_ja92tnn wrote
The alternative is to watch Yemen turn into the next Syria, under Iranian control.
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Stye88 t1_ja9bq28 wrote
Between Yemeni civil war, Ethiopian civil war next door and Somalis raiding anything that floats between those two and doesn't shoot back, this region just can't catch a breather.
Sab_moh_maya_hain t1_ja9chli wrote
Is that what the people of Yemen want tho?
PEVEI t1_ja9csab wrote
Which people of Yemen, there's a civil war going on between those people.
Sab_moh_maya_hain t1_ja9et20 wrote
That’s a fair point. I was watching a video on how Obama started it by supporting SA as a way to placate them. At the end of the day these people are the ones voiceless and suffering
PEVEI t1_ja9f00w wrote
The reality is indeed tragic, a civil war over existing ethnic and religious divides, exploited by Iran, and then exploited by Saudi Arabia as an extension of the conflict between Iran and KSA.
The Yemeni people are definitely the ones losing.
Sab_moh_maya_hain t1_ja9fmot wrote
As a non western person this brings to light to me how much political dialogue is influenced by “winning parties “
I never knew the extent of what Obama (and now Biden) did.
PEVEI t1_ja9fz29 wrote
Party politics definitely matters for some things, but when it comes to how the US acts in the Middle East and North Africa... there is less of a distinction. I think the last time there was real policy divergence was probably under the Bush (W) admin, where I think a Democrat in the same position would have been unlikely to invade Iraq. The drone program for example has been equally popular under Republican and Democrat administrations, and has only ever increased over time.
For someone in the region affected, the difference between a Bush or an Obama is probably thin enough to strangle on.
Sab_moh_maya_hain t1_ja9hf1f wrote
Geopolitics is a tough subject. Yes I agree on the ground no one cares. I wish people of that country were more educated on what they have done too.
Same with British educating the next generation on the matter of colonization and my own country as well. We should be less gullible to propaganda
autotldr t1_ja91xay wrote
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 72%. (I'm a bot)
> The United Nations has raised about $1.2bn from crisis-strained donors towards its $4.3bn aid plan for Yemen, one of the world's biggest humanitarian disasters despite a no-war, no-peace stalemate that has largely stopped fighting.
> The US, Yemen's top donor, pledged more than $444m for this year's humanitarian response, bringing its total contribution since the start of Yemen's war to $5.4bn. "Record global humanitarian needs are stretching donor support like never before, but without sustained support for the aid operation in Yemen, the lives of millions of Yemenis will hang in the balance," the UN said in a statement.
> Erin Hutchinson, Yemen director for the Norwegian Refugee Council aid group, said the amount raised on Monday was woefully inadequate for Yemen's needs.
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