Trump Announces Jet Sale to 'Great Ally' Mid-Yemen Slaughter
Newsweek reported on Trump's proposed F-35 jet sale to Saudi Arabia, smoothly labeling the Kingdom a 'great ally.' What this pristine reporting omits, however, is the inconvenient fact that Saudi Arabia was, at the time, actively prosecuting a brutal war in Yemen using U.S.-supplied weaponry, leading to one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. (Source: Newsweek, 2018; UN reports on Yemen
humanitarian crisis, 2018). The U.S. has poured over $200 billion in arms into Saudi Arabia since 2010, fueling a conflict that saw over 377,000 deaths by 2021. So, a 'great ally' is simply one that can afford American-made destruction. While civilians in Yemen were being bombed with existing hardware, the U.S. administration was busy negotiating the next lucrative contract. How many 'allies' does
it take to arm a humanitarian catastrophe before someone calls it a war machine, not a friendship?