#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…
…#Biden responds to a question about America’s relationship w/ #SaudiArabia by saying that the #US has 2 kinds of #alliances: “There are #values-based, & there are #practical-based.”
…One of his first moves in office was to cut off certain #arms supplies over the kingdom’s #war in #Yemen, which has #displaced 4.5M people & #killed 377k, including 11k children…. Soon after, the de facto Saudi ruler… #MBS, met w/ #China’s FM & proposed greater cooperation on #nuclear energy & #security….
The History and Mystery of Yemen’s ‘Well of Hell’ - The first-ever expedition to the bottom of a startling desert sinkhole found wonders—but only natural ones, by Sarah Durn October 20, 2021
"...Actually, there was a concern more sinister than reptiles and spirits when Al-Kindi finally reached the bottom: unexploded ordnance. Since 2014, Yemen has been in the midst of a bloody civil war and, Al-Kindi explains, pilots sometimes drop bombs into caves, since people seek shelter inside. “So that got me worried a bit,” he says. “Apart from that, it was a very enjoyable moment.” ...Al-Kindi estimates the sinkhole could be several million years old, but its origin, too, is the subject of local legend. One legend says an ancient king forced jinn to carve the “well” as a place to hide his treasure. In others, the well has always served to contain evil, uncontrollable jinn..."
#Yemen - FCarvajal: this move (by GoY & response by Houthis) goes beyond bank operations … swift, transfers, fees collected, exchange rates/deposits, distribution of aid (NGO relations/corruption), lines of credit…all affect Houthi war economy.
UN/NGOs hv to use Aden (a problem for UN/NGOs) @yemen https://x.com/carvajalf/status/1796590010256511472?s=12&t=uM8me4uwdP7D0z4nanVVuw
#Yemen Sakhr Mughbash(child)from the Maghreb District, Hajjah, lost his life on August 16, 2023.
Sakhr was recruited and used by the internationally recognized Yemeni government as part of the 2nd Brigade, presidential protection, and was killed in the AlAlam Ma’rib #ChildrenNotSoldiers@yemen
“Erik Prince, the founder of the military contractor Blackwater and younger brother of Betsy DeVos, invited around 650 of his contacts to join a secret, private group chat. And now it has leaked.”
Escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Zone until the End of 21 May 2024
🔹In the northern #GazaStrip, Israeli forces have blocked two medical facilities and are fighting in Jabaliya. At the same time, air strikes by the Israeli Air Force continue in Gaza and the surrounding area.
🔹In the south of the Enclave, in the area of #Rafah, fighting is also taking place. There are no recorded advances by the IDF, and artillery and aviation do not stop operating in areas controlled by the Palestinians.
🔹In the #WestBank, Israeli security forces carried out several raids, and in #Jenin there have been clashes since the early morning, with local factions of the Palestinian resistance detonating several IEDs.
🔹On the border with #Lebanon, the exchange of strikes between the #IDF and #Hezbollah continues. Despite the liquidation of another field commander last evening, the number of shellings does not yet allow us to talk about an escalation.
🔹In #Yemen's airspace, the Houthis shot down another MQ-9 Reaper. The footage showed the defeat and fall of the UAV. This is the second shot down in May and the fifth since the escalation began on October 7.
Photographer Rositsa Dimitrova: ‘The gorgeous bottle trees of #Socotra only bloom for a few weeks in February and March, and it’s a mesmerising sight you want to experience again and again’
If he is ever to publicly exclaim "Allahu akbar☝️!" so it is now:
God's mills have dealt with the arch-terrorist, Iranian President #Raisi one of the icons of the tyrannical, extremist and degenerate Shiite dictatorship. No wonder many Iranians are celebrating today:
Raisi was directly responsible for thousands of dead, maimed, widowed, orphaned and kidnapped in the Middle East, including his country.
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He was one of the key supporters of the bloody civil war in #Yemen and Hezbollah's terrorist activities in # Syria & #Lebanon. He was a politician who killed and oppressed his own Persian people.In the last year of his rule alone,hundreds of people were executed in political trials and thousands imprisoned.In Iran, he is called "The King of Executions"
Such a person deserves no mercy.He deserves only a chapter in human history as a warmonger, tyrant and supporter of crimes against humanity.
One clear sign of how ignorant and immature the college protesters are is how they all don't seem to want to be held accountable for the crimes they committed.
I wish that our U.S. campuses would at least still assign students to read MLK's Letter from a Birmingham jail, and Thoreau's essay on Civil Disobedience.
I think these protesters have failed the guidelines of: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and effective direct action.
The only thing we can do is to act based on the high moral principles that were the basis for many Western democracies and the founding principles of the League of Nations and the United Nations from NOW on.
Nations or terrorists organizations that defy these principles must me brought to heel, however.