UN predicts 'famine not seen in 40 years' due to Pompeo's Yemen policy

[Jean-s]

Mike Pompeo’s designation of Houthis as foreign terror group will block food and other aid, senior humanitarian says
The US designation of the Houthi movement in Yemen as a terrorist organisation is likely to lead to a famine on a scale not seen for 40 years, the UN’s most senior humanitarian official has said.

Mark Lowcock, the director general of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, called for the decision to be reversed, saying the cost of food was likely to rise by as much as 400%, way beyond the reach of many aid agencies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...en-decision-will-lead-to-disaster-predicts-un

One has to ask what is Mike Pompeo up to. In one week he has designated three places that he might not be able to find on his famous map as homes for terrorists and because he is an unelected powerful American no food or medicine can be sent to the Iranians, the Cubans, and the Houthis from any country under threat of reprisal by the USA. He is certainly keeping busy in his last week on the job as Donald Trump's Secretary of State. I do wonder how difficult it would be for Joe Biden to declare all this mindless hate to be null and void and rescind everything he has done.

 

[calamity]

We need to end the Lame duck phase in US government. New president takes office by Dec 1.

 

[OrphanSlug]

We need to end the Lame duck phase in US government. New president takes office by Dec 1.

No, what we need is to see the US end its multiple decade foreign policy fiasco of messing about across the greater Middle East region pretending we are making things better there or safer here.

By all objective measure and evaluation, our policy intentions have been a galactic failure.

 

[Roadvirus]

So it's all our fault that a proxy of Iran has taken over Yemen?

 

[cpwill]

So it's all our fault that a proxy of Iran has taken over Yemen?

Yes. According to a certain brand of foolish thought, what is bad is not when evil actors spread chaos and bloodshed across the world, but, when the U.S. recognizes it as such, and sets itself against it.

 

[joko104]

No problem. The Yemen government should just give each person $1,400 to buy food with. We know from our government that government doesn't actually have to have any money to give money away to everyone.

 

[Jean-s]

So it's all our fault that a proxy of Iran has taken over Yemen?

You and joko can believe Pompeo if you like, Virus.

 

[Jean-s]

Yes. According to a certain brand of foolish thought, what is bad is not when evil actors spread chaos and bloodshed across the world, but, when the U.S. recognizes it as such, and sets itself against it.

It is a serious weakness of a system of government that permits an unelected individual such as Mike Pompeo's every utterance to be the policy of the United States.

 

[RetiredUSN]

Mike Pompeo’s designation of Houthis as foreign terror group will block food and other aid, senior humanitarian says
The US designation of the Houthi movement in Yemen as a terrorist organisation is likely to lead to a famine on a scale not seen for 40 years, the UN’s most senior humanitarian official has said.

Mark Lowcock, the director general of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, called for the decision to be reversed, saying the cost of food was likely to rise by as much as 400%, way beyond the reach of many aid agencies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...en-decision-will-lead-to-disaster-predicts-un

One has to ask what is Mike Pompeo up to. In one week he has designated three places that he might not be able to find on his famous map as homes for terrorists and because he is an unelected powerful American no food or medicine can be sent to the Iranians, the Cubans, and the Houthis from any country under threat of reprisal by the USA. He is certainly keeping busy in his last week on the job as Donald Trump's Secretary of State. I do wonder how difficult it would be for Joe Biden to declare all this mindless hate to be null and void and rescind everything he has done.

No worries..........President Numb Nuts will be along in a few days to cure Yemen's problems for ya.

Or maybe Spain could step in?

 

[Apocalypse]

So it's all our fault that a proxy of Iran has taken over Yemen?

It's always the US fault.
To the far-left radicals there just doesn't seem to be any other international players.

 

[snakestretcher]

It's always the US fault.
To the far-left radicals there just doesn't seem to be any other international players.

It very often is the fault of the US. The US has a long history of sticking its nose where it isn't wanted and generally ****ing-up any country it visits. Just take Latin and Central America for example; decades of meddling, regime manipulation and overthrow, support for right-wing terrorism etc. Nobody trusts American foreign policy as anything but a force for destabilising. The Middle East is no different; look at the shambles the US left Iraq in; a tottering pastiche of 'democracy' the Iraqi people never asked for, factional in-fighting and a bleak future. And US troops are still there, fifteen years on. Is that what successful foreign policy looks like?

15 Years After U.S. Invasion, Some Iraqis Are Nostalgic For Saddam Hussein Era

"Many people, when they compare between the situation under Saddam Hussein and now, find maybe their life under Saddam Hussein was better," says an Iraqi general.

www.npr.org

When it reaches the point where Iraqis are yearning for pre-US invasion Iraq under a monster like Saddam, you can work the rest out.

 

[TypicalRussian]

Mike Pompeo’s designation of Houthis as foreign terror group will block food and other aid, senior humanitarian says
The US designation of the Houthi movement in Yemen as a terrorist organisation is likely to lead to a famine on a scale not seen for 40 years, the UN’s most senior humanitarian official has said.

Mark Lowcock, the director general of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, called for the decision to be reversed, saying the cost of food was likely to rise by as much as 400%, way beyond the reach of many aid agencies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...en-decision-will-lead-to-disaster-predicts-un

One has to ask what is Mike Pompeo up to. In one week he has designated three places that he might not be able to find on his famous map as homes for terrorists and because he is an unelected powerful American no food or medicine can be sent to the Iranians, the Cubans, and the Houthis from any country under threat of reprisal by the USA. He is certainly keeping busy in his last week on the job as Donald Trump's Secretary of State. I do wonder how difficult it would be for Joe Biden to declare all this mindless hate to be null and void and rescind everything he has done.

yeah yemen is so screwed

 

[Fledermaus]

It very often is the fault of the US. The US has a long history of sticking its nose where it isn't wanted and generally ****ing-up any country it visits. Just take Latin and Central America for example; decades of meddling, regime manipulation and overthrow, support for right-wing terrorism etc. Nobody trusts American foreign policy as anything but a force for destabilising. The Middle East is no different; look at the shambles the US left Iraq in; a tottering pastiche of 'democracy' the Iraqi people never asked for, factional in-fighting and a bleak future. And US troops are still there, fifteen years on. Is that what successful foreign policy looks like?

15 Years After U.S. Invasion, Some Iraqis Are Nostalgic For Saddam Hussein Era

"Many people, when they compare between the situation under Saddam Hussein and now, find maybe their life under Saddam Hussein was better," says an Iraqi general.

www.npr.org

When it reaches the point where Iraqis are yearning for pre-US invasion Iraq under a monster like Saddam, you can work the rest out.

To be fair many Russians pine for the old days of the USSR.

 

[snakestretcher]

To be fair many Russians pine for the old days of the USSR.

Yes, but they tend to be the older generation who are gradually dying-off. The 'youngsters' probably won't remember what life was like in the old Soviet Union.

 

[bearpoker]

To be fair many Russians pine for the old days of the USSR.

In both cases, I suspect that what they really pine for is stability and predictability. The devil they know, rather than a new devil they don't.

 

[Fledermaus]

In both cases, I suspect that what they really pine for is stability and predictability. The devil they know, rather than a new devil they don't.

Zactly....