US continues terror onslaught against only nation in region fulfilling its obligations to intervene against genocide
US ‘president’ Donald Trump has boasted like an unhinged teenager as he posted video of the latest US war crime in Yemen:
Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis!
Trump posted what he claimed was footage showing an oval of people ‘gathered for instructions on an attack’, who were then obliterated by a heavy bomb and close-up drone footage of the devastation:
But the footage showed no such thing. Instead, it showed a classic Yemeni tribal or family gathering – in this case to celebrate Eid – with the people gathered around an elder or guest of honour, as many images freely available to Trump and his military show:
The US military’s war crimes are not new, as anyone who has seen whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s footage of helicopter gunships gunning down civilians in Iraq knows. Now it is perpetrating those crimes on the civilians of the only nation in western Asia living up to its obligations under international law to intervene to prevent genocide by blocking Israel-bound shipping, so that the Zionist regime can continue its slaughter and starvation of 1.6 million surviving Palestinians in Gaza, which the UK military is also assisting.
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From the NY Times: “U.S. Strikes in Yemen: In closed briefings, Pentagon officials have acknowledged that there has been only limited success in destroying the Houthis’ vast, largely underground arsenal of missiles, drones and launchers, according to congressional aides and allies.”
So contradicting the Trump bots who tell us all over the internet that ALL Houthis as going to be bombed out of existence. The same way presumably the US bombed the North Vietnamese and Afghanis out of existence, oh hang on the Americans ended up running away…. They NEVER learn!
It is frightening the impunity the US knows it has, to the point of its President publicly boasting of a war crime.
Yeah. Like his annexation of Gaza and larger-Palestine, his acquiescence to Putin, his tariff-taxes on American consumers and his intentional disruption of global trade, he’s doing it because he believes he can.
Lump it or leave his petrodollar trading cartel. Venezuala, Russia and Saudi Arabia will sell their oil in non-dollar currencies.
Trump is risking American isolation. The petrodollar will suffer and with it the US loses the cash cow that gives it its power.
Wishful thinking?