Trump Ally Helps Arm Saudi Arabia; Newsweek Forgets Yemen
Newsweek trumpets a 'biggest-ever US military drone deal' between a Trump ally and Saudi Arabia for MQ-9s. Yet, the article neglects to mention Saudi Arabia's well-documented use of US-made weapons in its five-year-long war against Yemen, a conflict that Human Rights Watch and the UN have extensively cited for widespread civilian casualties and war crimes. This isn't just about 'Trump allies'
(though that is a convenient distraction); it's about a consistent, bipartisan US policy of arming regimes with devastating consequences. While think tanks funded by defense contractors debate the 'strategic implications,' one might wonder how many more Yemeni children must perish under drone strikes before mainstream outlets connect the dots between these 'deals' and the actual, verifiable
atrocities committed with U.S. hardware. It's almost as if the 'ally' status comes with an invisible shield against inconvenient truths.