Newsweek Discovers US Allies Squabble, Not That US Started the War
Newsweek details a 'Yemen bombing sparks rift between US allies in Middle East.' The headline paints this as a diplomatic spat, not the ongoing, US-armed Saudi-led assault on Yemen. Over 150,000 direct deaths and hundreds of thousands from starvation and disease later, the corporate press is concerned about 'rifts'—not the fact that the US provided intelligence, mid-air refueling, and billions in
weapons to Saudi Arabia for years, turning a blind eye to war crimes. Remember August 2018, when a Saudi airstrike using a US-made bomb hit a school bus, killing 40 children? That wasn't a 'rift'; that was complicity. The US, which armed Saudi Arabia to the tune of $64.1 billion in military sales between 2010 and 2019, according to the Security Assistance Monitor, manufactured the very bombs
dropping on Yemen from the outset. How many 'allies' can you arm before you're just funding a proxy war you don't want to explain?