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In May 2024, the Biden administration announced that it was providing $220 million in aid to Yemen which the United States had been at war with since the start of that year.
Even while the US Navy was engaged in what the Associated Press would describe next month as the “most intense combat since World War II” with Yemen’s Houthi Jihadists, the U.S. Mission to Yemen boasted of having provided “nearly $5.9 billion” in aid beginning with the Obama administration, of being “the largest donor of humanitarian assistance” and urged that “other donors must join us in stepping up” to fund an Iranian-backed terror group at war with us.
A terror group whose motto, like its Iranian patrons, is “Death to America.”
One arm of the United States government, the Pentagon, was fighting the Houthis, while another arm, the State Department and USAID, were funding them. While Navy personnel on board US Navy vessels had seconds to prepare and counter Houthi strikes, State Department and USAID personnel worked to keep the Houthi’s Hodeidah port open so more “aid” could pass through it. The US Navy was not allowed to strike Hodeidah even though it was the Houthi lifeline for the weapons that the Houthis were using to attack American and other vessels.
The Biden administration had ended President Trump’s support for Saudi action against the Houthis and lavished a fortune on the terrorist areas because terrorist supporters and international groups had falsely claimed that Yemen was suffering from a deadly famine.
Before Islamic terrorist supporters, their leftist allies and international aid groups faked a famine in Gaza to save Hamas, #YemenFamine was trending on social media along with photos of wounded and starving children. Much as in Gaza, there was no famine. Rather the Houthis were seizing international aid which they then resold to create food shortages. The more aid came in, the more the Houthis seized. The fake famine was used to mount an international pressure campaign to end the attacks on the Houthis and send billions of dollars in relief to Yemen.
Massive shipments of urea, a fertilizer also used in explosives, were allowed into Yemen to help grow crops and stop the mythical famine. Even though urea was proscribed, the shipments were not interfered with in the name of ending the famine that wasn’t happening. Along with the urea came ammonium perchlorate which is used in rocket fuel. The rockets being fired at US Navy vessels were fueled by the famine lie. False claims of a famine were a tool of war.
By 2018, over $4 billion in humanitarian aid had poured into Yemen. The UN’s World Food Program, which would later invent and become the loudest voice promoting the Gaza famine hoax, operated 5,000 distribution sites to supposedly aid 10 million people whom it claimed were facing emergency conditions, but could only track 1 in 5 of its food basket allotments.
In 2017, two-thirds of those who were supposed to be receiving food had not gotten anything.
In one Houthi province, the UN sent twice as much food as the people needed, and came away claiming that the majority of the population was still in desperate need of food.
The WFP, and even the AP eventually admitted that the Houthis were taking much of the food. The Houthis created fake lists of starving people who needed food. International aid groups resorted to sending money so that Yemenis could buy the food aid that was being resold.
Even though all of this was well known, the Biden administration kept on sending more aid five years later. The money didn’t go to the people: it went to the Houthis at war with America.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s first order of business was taking the Houthis off the list of foreign terrorist organizations, making it legal to fund them, despite “their reprehensible conduct, including attacks against civilians and the kidnapping of American citizens” because of “the humanitarian consequences” that would take place in Yemen. Even as the Houthis went to war against America, “humanitarian aid” provisions protected the delivery of fuel, and the port and airport operations that allowed the Houthis to get more money and weapons.
Earlier this year, the UN demanded $2.47 billion for its 2025 Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan. In February, the Houthis killed a WFP worker (an event that got far less publicity than the deaths of aid workers in Gaza), but in April, the WFP expressed outrage that the United States was finally, at least temporarily, pausing aid and would not be allocating over $100 million in funds to the enemy region at war with the United States.
After 9 years of non-stop famine (and billions in spending), 17 million people are facing acute hunger in Yemen. That’s up from 15.9 million people in 2019.
Since the famine began, Yemen’s population shot up from 30 million to 39 million.
Having a population increase by 10 million or 30% during a famine is unprecedented. What accounts for this Yemeni miracle? Miraculously, Yemen’s population rose sharply as an unprecedented wave of foreign aid poured into this country. It’s unknown how many of these miracle births were real or fake names to collect yet more humanitarian aid for the hungry.
After the latest round of airstrikes, a Yemeni man interviewed on camera, chanted, “Death to America” and bragged that “our country is fortified with the skulls of American demons.”
More accurately, it’s fortified with $5.9 billion in American taxpayer money.
Since Yemen’s population seem to have figured out how to increase by a third during a famine affecting half their population, they clearly don’t need any more help from us, which should be used to help actual starvation victims in African countries that can’t just pump oil from the ground. Not only should we stop sending aid to Yemen, we should block all further aid.
If we don’t want to be in a perpetual war over passage through the Red Sea or depend on the goodwill of a terrorist group for access to it, we should cut off the money to the terrorists.
And while Iran has supplied the Houthis with weapons and money, in Yemen, much as in Afghanistan, Iraq and Gaza, much of the money going to the terrorists comes from us.
Hopefully, with the Trump crew in power, the U.S. will finally stop shooting itself in the foot doing things like this. We’ll see.
It wasn’t shooting itself in the foot. All these things are things our government did to us intentionally. Trump is trying to stop it, and jyst listen to the globalust demons screech!
If you ever wondered if the folks who run our foreign policy hate us, this should eliminate all doubt.
If you ever wonder what altruism really means here is just one more example.
Gee T, I never wondered. Not exactly on my radar. And judging from the downvotes you are, as usual, racking up, neither does anyone else.
But since your personal drinking game is now in effect, I will raise a Kilt Lifter in celebration.
I think of it more as another example of “or enemies are victims” leftism, signed off by a retarded hush.
I think of it more as the excuse to spend money, as leftists are very generous with our money.
Leftists hide behind a slogan of being kind & tolerant, yet we both know they’re the polar opposite. (Elon Musk is the latest example.)
That aside, you have a point if altruistism is the veneer, the previous administration used to squander (again) serious cash on a foolish endeavor to benefit suckers & losers.
There are too many poor people in the world, sadly. So why do we want to produce more of them. To borrow from Jonathon Swift, eat the poor. Figuratively. Poor individuals can rise above their circumstances but mathematically, not all of them can because poverty is relative to the non poor. Someone must be, by definition, poor.
Objectively speaking,
The only practical solution[s] to too many poor people in the world is simple and straight forward: war, plague and famine. Plague (China virus) wiped out many people but thanks to modern medicine, it was stopped before it could put a serious dent in the world’s population..
The world is overdue for another world war and the famines that follows such events. Let’s be expeditious and get to it posthaste and get it over with. There needs to be a culling.
Perhaps the survivors with be less hostile and dogmatic towards each other and be better stewards of the planet. The current generation of people certainly aren’t.
You should apply for a leadership position in the UN.
Why should Biden’s policies to deal with Yemen be any better than Clinton’s policies were with Somalia? Both were feeding the enemy and donating American lives.
I don’t ever recall urea being used as rocket fuel or explosive. I’m not sure it is even combustable although in a fire it decomposes to nasty gases. Now is ammonium nitrate explosive? yes, especially when mixed with hydrocarbons; nitric acid yes when mixed with hydrocarbons; ammonia plus nitric acid can be converted to ammonium nitrate, so yes; and perchlorates, heavens yes.
It is amazing how these characters have learned to manipulate Western populations — famines, genocides, press photos of injured and hungry kids, fake photos of casualties, Endless civil war., etc. And a few weeks ago I did a bit of research as I knew little about Yemen. Over forty million people. It’s stunning. In 1950 it was 4 million and is projected to be 70 million in 2050. These populations are completely unsustainable with water being that resource in shortest supply.
Yup…. urea is useless as an explosive ingredient.
Except when you mix it with other compounds, like say nitric acid.
Plus you can break it down and use the chemical components in explosives.
It’s cheap, safe, and easy to transport in bulk and can be explained off as fertilizer while being intended for other purposes.
It was probably urea nitrate that was used, and then some report shortened it to “urea”.
The State Department – working against US interests for over 100 years.
The American Taxpayer: feeding Muslim terrorists for 50 years.
Appeasing muslim terrorists has never, ever worked.
I learned about malignant altruism from my first lecture on public health at Emory School of Medicine in 1976. The American foreign aid part was concise and surgical: it should be cut out like a cancer!
We send food to cultures where numbers of wives and children are a measure of a man’s status. America feeds The Problem, and has no solution, The breeding population is “saved” by the good intentioned virtue signaling Americans, until the next famine, which will be worse than the last one, until the hoards of “refugees” boil over, invading every vulnerable country, bringing their world with them. I’ve lived to see that professor’s lecture become reality across the Western civilized world, cultural suicide.
As my Aunt Gertrude said: “We create our own monsters.”.
Man, they must think American’s are really stupid, and they are right. Foolish, ignorant, self serving rich Americans trying to assuage their personal guilt by donating blindly to whatever feels good. That’s just the first half. The other half are those traitorous, evil despots who encourage and mislead the foolish and ignorant to enrich themselves and bankrupt America in the process.
I am so happy that Jesus is coming back to end this evil, insane, Christ rejecting world and bring His long prophesied judgments upon the unbelieving heathens of planet earth. (Which just happens to be the majority).
“Matthew 7:13-14……. “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and MANY there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and FEW there be that find it”.
Rev. Roy…………..<
PS, Congrats! Well deserved.
There must be ways of ascertaining the true state of affairs in regard to any alleged famine, whether it is via reconnaissance aircraft, or trustworthy reporters on the ground. And aid should not be ongoing – if there is genuinely good reason to think that a country is famine stricken, there should be an emergency response pending some sort of planning about how the people will be helped back onto their feet. The aim should be that of making aid redundant. And non-emergency aid should be tied to progress on human rights (though I am personally of the opinion that this should not include abortion as a “reproductive right”).
Democrats. Feeding and supporting America’s enemies at every opportunity.
I can’t think of one single thing Biden did that was good for America. He was too busy filling his pockets with money from shady deals with Hunter to give a darn about America. Biden was all about himself and could not care less about the people he was elected to defend. Just look at our open borders under his regime.