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YEMEN IS FACING THE WORLD'S LARGEST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. WILL YOU PLEDGE TO #FAST4YEMEN?
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As of December 2020, war and its impacts (lack of food and health services, destruction of infrastructure) have caused over 233,000 DEATHS in Yemen. #COVID19 has only compounded the suffering.
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The US, UK, and other countries have supported the Saudi-led coalition since 2015 in bombings and blockades on Yemen. Countless war crimes have been committed with ZERO accountability.
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As 75+ House Democrats demand that the U.S. use its leverage to compel the Saudis to lift their blockade on Yemen, Vox details a debate unfolding on whether the U.S. still supports the war and blockade. I argue, yes, in any reasonable sense, it does: vox.com/2021/4/9/22375… (1/x)
Since Jan., the Saudis’ military strategy involved quietly imposing a fuel blockade on Yemen while touting its own peace entreaties to the Houthis. But rehashed Saudi ceasefire proposals were political nonstarters “clearly designed to appease the US” (2/x) responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/03/23/sau…
The Saudi public-relations tactic worked for months, shielding the ongoing blockade—“an offensive military operation that kills civilians” per CIA veteran and Brookings scholar Bruce Riedel—from broader public scrutiny. brookings.edu/blog/order-fro… (3/x)
