NPR Discovers Yemen's Civil War, Ten Years and $100 Billion Later
NPR's breaking news: Saudi Arabia bombed Mukalla, targeting UAE weapon shipments, with the UAE promising to withdraw forces. The implication: a threatening 'escalation' could 'reignite civil war.' Conveniently omitted? The decade-long Saudi-led war against Yemen, enabled by billions in US arms sales. This 'civil war' never truly ended because Western powers and their Gulf allies never stopped
arming factions and bombing infrastructure, converting what was once framed as an 'Iranian proxy' fight into a genocidal humanitarian catastrophe, complete with cholera outbreaks and widespread starvation. For instance, the US approved over $100 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia during this period, turning a blind eye to war crimes. Now, as Houthi forces disrupt shipping lanes in solidarity
with Gaza, suddenly Yemen's internal dynamics become newsworthy again. One might wonder if the 'threat' isn't to Yemeni civilians, but to oil prices and profitable weapon flows. It seems the 'wider tensions in the Gulf' are only concerning when they impact Western commerce, not when they involve indiscriminately bombing civilians in one of the poorest nations on earth. How many human lives does it
take for a conflict to be 'escalated' enough for mainstream media to notice?