NYT: Saudi War Against Yemen a War Crime the United States Colluded For

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Saudi Arabia’s brutal campaign against Yemen has created one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, with at least eight million Yemenis on the verge of starvation. Thousands of civilians have been killed and millions displaced as fears mount that the cholera epidemic is back.

This is what the New York Times pointed out after pointing the blame at the Saudi regime through its disastrous aggression against Yemen. The Saudi alliance against Yemen was a war crime in which the United States colluded.

The Saudi-led “coalition” led by Saudi Arabia, backed by former US President Barack Obama, launched violent attacks, including thousands of air strikes against Yemen and its people, to support the fugitive President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Adding, “It seems that Mohammed bin Salman is committed to achieve a military victory despite the atrocities resulting from this war.”

Despite the horrors of the war, encouraged by US President Donald Trump, who has shown a clear willingness to sell Saudi Arabia whatever new military equipment it wants, contrary to many reports indicating that US military aid to the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen is “not related to the fighting and is limited to providing aircraft with fuel and fighters with logistical support and intelligence.” A report by the newspaper mentioned that there were many US commandos at the Saudi border late last year to help the coalition identify and hit the Yemeni forces.

The United States claims to be “fighting terrorism” in more than 14 countries and appears to be fighting countries and groups that it considers enemies or claims to pose a threat to it. Otherwise, how can Yemen’s “AnsarAllah” pose a threat to the United States?

The newspaper pointed out the absence of “controls and balances” in American political decisions since the events of September 11, describing them as “eroded”, where Americans are not indifferent to the wars waged by their governments on the pretext of “fighting terrorism,” Congress has apparently abandoned its constitutional role to share responsibility with the US president for sending US troops to the war on Yemen.

Despite the fact that Mohammed bin Salman and Trump are not interested in the demands of the international community to end the aggression on Yemen, the United Nations plans to propose a new suggestion for the resumption of peace negotiations, and the Congress can improve the chances of success by cutting military aid to Saudi Arabia and voting to prevent the involvement of US forces in this aggression.