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Let me fix that for you: "Yemen has lost internet after U.S. Funded, Saudi-led, airstrikes"

by podgaj 5y ago

AndyMcConachie 5y ago
To be fair they're not US funded, they're US supplied. US and Uk weapons manufacturers are making lots of money because Saudi Arabia and the UAE are buying weapons from them. They're not using money from the USA to do this.
avgcorrection 5y ago
That’s an accurate addendum but NPR isn’t necessarily omitting things.
Pompidou 5y ago
France sell a lot of weapon to Saudi too.
- Jon_Lowtek 5y ago
  King Sauds airforce is flying eurofighters sold by Britain
  - Pompidou 5y ago
    The journalists who have disclose this fact were summoned by our intelligence services (DGSI). It was a scandale and freedom of speech was trampled with this case.
    - Jon_Lowtek 5y ago
      Sry i didn't mean to insult you, of course your country has greatly participated in war crimes as well :D https://www.ecchr.eu/en/case/made-in-europe-bombed-in-yemen/ https://www.ecchr.eu/en/case/made-in-europe-bombed-in-yemen/ https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/european-arms-in-the-bombing-of-yemen https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/european-arm...
      - Pompidou 5y ago
        Oh you didnt insult me. I just wanted to share theses facts with you. You 're welcome. Let the yemen people be in peace a soon as possible.
ahoka 5y ago
Well the Houthi movement's official slogan is "God is Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam". Can't be a coincident?
- oa335 5y ago
  Those sentiments didn’t arise in a vacuum.
  - trasz 5y ago
    Indeed, they didn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone "Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive covert CIA operations ever undertaken.[2] Funding [..] rose to $630 million per year in 1987,[1][4][5] described as the "biggest bequest to any Third World insurgency". What happened next was a logical consequence.
  - pepperonipizza 5y ago
    Would you excuse Hitler with the same sentence? You can switch islam with white supremacy, it's a similar supremacist ideology in search of a boogeyman. Protocol of Zion is still cited as a legitimate source in the middle east.
    - trasz 5y ago
      And yet nobody's invading US to get rid of white supremacists.
- f6v 5y ago
  I wonder what happens to a Jew who sneaks to SA. Pretending Saudis are better is nuts.
  - smashah 5y ago
    Not to burst your bubble or anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P24WZp0gVRg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P24WZp0gVRg If you want to have your (valid) criticisms taken seriously, it's best to keep up to date with what's going on on the ground.
sharikous 5y ago
... which happened after an Iran funded rebel group launched rockets against Saudi Arabia's ally

Let me fix that for you: "Yemen has lost internet after U.S. Funded, Saudi-led, airstrikes"

by podgaj 5y ago

Let me fix that for you: "Yemen has lost internet after U.S. Funded, Saudi-led, airstrikes"

To be fair they're not US funded, they're US supplied. US and Uk weapons manufacturers are making lots of money because Saudi Arabia and the UAE are buying weapons from them. They're not using money from the USA to do this.

avgcorrection 5y ago

That’s an accurate addendum but NPR isn’t necessarily omitting things.

Pompidou 5y ago

France sell a lot of weapon to Saudi too.

Jon_Lowtek 5y ago
King Sauds airforce is flying eurofighters sold by Britain
- Pompidou 5y ago
  The journalists who have disclose this fact were summoned by our intelligence services (DGSI). It was a scandale and freedom of speech was trampled with this case.
  - Jon_Lowtek 5y ago
    Sry i didn't mean to insult you, of course your country has greatly participated in war crimes as well :D https://www.ecchr.eu/en/case/made-in-europe-bombed-in-yemen/ https://www.ecchr.eu/en/case/made-in-europe-bombed-in-yemen/ https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/european-arms-in-the-bombing-of-yemen https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/european-arm...
    - Pompidou 5y ago
      Oh you didnt insult me. I just wanted to share theses facts with you. You 're welcome. Let the yemen people be in peace a soon as possible.

ahoka 5y ago

Well the Houthi movement's official slogan is "God is Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam". Can't be a coincident?

oa335 5y ago
Those sentiments didn’t arise in a vacuum.
- trasz 5y ago
  Indeed, they didn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone "Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive covert CIA operations ever undertaken.[2] Funding [..] rose to $630 million per year in 1987,[1][4][5] described as the "biggest bequest to any Third World insurgency". What happened next was a logical consequence.
- pepperonipizza 5y ago
  Would you excuse Hitler with the same sentence? You can switch islam with white supremacy, it's a similar supremacist ideology in search of a boogeyman. Protocol of Zion is still cited as a legitimate source in the middle east.
  - trasz 5y ago
    And yet nobody's invading US to get rid of white supremacists.
f6v 5y ago
I wonder what happens to a Jew who sneaks to SA. Pretending Saudis are better is nuts.
- smashah 5y ago
  Not to burst your bubble or anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P24WZp0gVRg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P24WZp0gVRg If you want to have your (valid) criticisms taken seriously, it's best to keep up to date with what's going on on the ground.

sharikous 5y ago

... which happened after an Iran funded rebel group launched rockets against Saudi Arabia's ally