Many media outlets had stories on this, and almost all of them forget to include two basic pieces of information in their attempt to give props to Biden for stopping what “Trump did”. This one seems to be have stealth edited to include part of that information between yesterday and today
Biden takes away Saudi Arabia’s blank check to commit war crimes
The Biden administration announced Thursday that it would halt support of Saudi Arabia’s offensive military operations in Yemen, where the war has caused a gigantic humanitarian emergency on top of the coronavirus pandemic. Biden will also reportedly appoint experienced diplomat Timothy Lenderking as special envoy to Yemen.
It remains to be seen exactly how this will play out, but as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) noted in a statement, it looks like the start of a diplomatic push to get Saudi Arabia to end the brutal war in which it has been bogged down since 2015, obtain a general ceasefire, and coordinate an international aid effort. The Saudi military basically cannot do anything without U.S. support, and any strong signals from America that it should knock it off probably will be heeded. That’s especially true now that Trump is gone, and Saudi dictator Mohammad bin Salman thus faces possible recrimination for ordering the cold-blooded murder of a U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, back in 2018.
It is worth noting that while Biden is reversing a Trump decision, the Yemen policy actually originated under the Obama administration. It is a marked difference from the early months of 2009, when Obama kept on George W. Bush’s secretary of defense and planned for a massive troop surge in Afghanistan. Perhaps two decades of expensive, bloody, and totally unsuccessful wars are enough?
How is Yemen a Trump decision, other than simply keeping Obama’s policy active? That last paragraph on this having originated under the Obama admin was not there when I read it Thursday. It seems rather important to the narrative, does it not? Who was VP during that time?
"Under Obama, the United States supplied arms to the coalition, helped identify bomb targets and provided mid-air refueling of Saudi and UAE warplanes" Who was VP? https://t.co/xsv1OTmuJU
— William Teach2 ??????? #refuseresist (@WTeach2) February 4, 2021
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