Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
Yemen has been at war for the past seven years. A once great land of ancient trade, Yemen has become one of the poorest nations in the Arab world. Their GDP for 2021 was expected to reach only 26.9 billion USD. The World Bank estimated that over half of Yemen’s population lived in poverty prior to the pandemic, and that figure has now reached 71% to 78%.
The United Nations recently declared that 19 million people will go hungry in the coming months. Yemen is completely reliant on exports for basic necessities and 90% of its food supply is imported. One-third of imported wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia. The World Food Programme (WFP) said five million people are at “immediate risk” of slipping into famine-like conditions, and that their program needs $887.9 million to feed 13 million people over the next six months. Over 20.5 million people are without safe water as well.
Around 75% of the $14 billion donated to the nation came from the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, and the European Commission. The World Bank expects inflation to reach 45% in Yemen this year but the rial is already worthless and the nation has yet to adopt a safe reserve currency.
I have yet to see a Yemeni flag or virtue signaling for the people living in this particular war-torn country as it is not part of the agenda. The media rarely reports on Yemen and most journalists likely would not be able to recognize Yemen’s flag. People are not driving around with “We Stand With Yemen” bumper stickers, and schools are not requiring children to make sense of this war. The public does not discuss or shed tears for the people of Yemen who live in unfathomable conditions because they are not a piece of the larger agenda and no one can profit off of their suffering at this time.
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Zero mention of who the war is between, or how things got this way?
You know how that would end.
The video is very explanatory. The article…not very much at all.
It’s a Wahabbi vs Shiite thing I believe. Saudi Wahabbists trying to exterminate the kuffir Yemeni Shiites who are supported, or at least armed by the Iranian Shiites.
By the way, how f’ing stupid is Biden to go begging the Saudis for oil when he’s about to dump billions in cash and Gold on Iran plus allowing them to build nukes when they are the Saudis ultimate enemy?
There must be some corruption going on in these deals that would make Ukrainians blush because the Dhimmicrats have been obsessed with helping Iran for years.
”There must be some corruption going on in these deals that would make Ukrainians blush because the Dhimmicrats have been obsessed with helping Iran for years.”
Have often thought of this connection because why would all the Jews that are in government in all these un-elected posts want to deal with people that have pledged to destroy Israel? Some have a dual citizenship.
Mind you I really don’t have a problem with Iran, wouldn’t want to live there, but actually the Persians were and most likely still are an educated group of people.
Clearly shows the vast hypocracy of the media and government in the west, and the agenda driven rhetoric. There has never been any concern over human rights abuses in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, etc., and if anyone even mentions these issues (such as Assange outing the murder of civilians in Iraq) they are vicously silenced and othered by the governments and their controlled media attack dogs.
The way the west acts now makes the original German nazis look polite and respectful by comparison.
Another Muslim shithole where they murder each other. What else is new.
Good Lord! Why, that’s almost half as many the number of Americans killed by Chinese fentanyl from the southern border last week alone! Oh the humanity!
I don’t think that is funny at all. It just demonstrates how fucked up dishonest our government and media are.
Our government?
Starving people all over the planet already and the oligarchs that own everything want more !
More for themselves , more starving , sick and dead worthless eaters and no they don’t give a fuck !
The US government deep in the holes the BIG THEY don’t like to admit exists THEY are laughing till they wet their pants .
Yes Mr & Mrs America starvation is heading your way too and our government is in on it !
To quote Lara Logan : We are standing at the gate of Auschwitz and wondering if the smoke coming from the ovens is climate change !
I pray she is surrounded with good security ! Hard truths are never accepted by today’s deep state assholes
Another shithole I care absolutely nothing about. It would be nice if our leaders addressed our problems instead of the rest of the world’s problems. Of course that isn’t going to happen.
If it was Russia/Putin attacking Yemen you know damn well it would be front page news and the Hitler card would get played over and over again.
Since the bad guy is Saudi – the entire media apparatus is silent. Just like w/ 911 – that the Saudi government helped to orchestrate.
Preview of the rest of the world–all of it.
mohammedans killing mohammedans. I have no shits to give.