Posted on 12/12/2022 1:17:51 PM PST by RandFan
That “The Cradle” article is rather one sided. Nothing about the attacks on Saudi, including oil facilities which, like it or not, are a crucial part of the world economy and as such, keeping a lot of people alive.
Anybody who thinks this Resolution would actually make the Yemen war go away is naïve beyond belief.
Oh really? We aren’t producing crap anymore.
All news storied expose bias, however, it's the degree to which they do so. This one is not as blatantly over-the-top as others.
AQAP = Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
And how are we involved?
Do we have troops involved?
Are we droning anyone?
So this wouldn't be under the war powers act anyway right? Any more than any other deployment of US troops to allied countries such as Japan, South Korea, Germany, Poland, etc.
Except we’re not deployed to Ukraine.
We’re simply providing weapons and related aid, most under a lend lease arrangement. And provision of such was clearly indisputably authorized by Congress.
Are you sure that is the reality?
I've heard we have people over there training them how to use some of the weapons systems we are equipping them with, as well as, advisors. Exactly how we first got involved in Vietnam.
But the billions we are providing for them, while our southern border is allowing in over 2,000 illegal aliens every day should upset every American. Last time I heard, the cost of illegal aliens exceeds 250 billion per year, and that figure has had to have expanded with the over 3 million people in the last 2 years alone.
Yeah, and like the lend-lease arrangement in WWII, we will never see a penny of that money returned.
But what is our goal there? How does it threaten U.S. National Security.
Answers: unknown, It doesn't threaten National Security one iota.
Support for Ukraine and the border are two separate issues. It's not either or. We can do both, quit trying to conflate the too.
We'd probably save a lot more money if we finished the wall on the southern border.
Our goals in Ukraine are to:
Since what goes on in the world sometimes looks like the actions of a demented Swiss watch, lets list a few more facts.
* Saudi Arabia and Iran are enemies. Kind of like Catholics and Protestants centuries ago. Death of 400 Iran clerics at Mecca a few years ago didn’t help.
* Centuries ago Yeman was a next stop after Mecca for international Islamic planning. Helped liberate colonized Indonesia after Krakatoa disaster.
* SA has a lousy record regarding rights of women.
* Iran is currently killing women for defying religious police.
* Iran is actively seeking to make nuclear weapons.
* I have no information on SA and nukes.
* There have been attacks on Aramco (oil) and others in SA.
* Our military ship the Cole was attacked in Yemen harbor killing Americans.
* SA murdered and dismembered a US based journalist in Turkey.
* Iran’s Islamic regime kidnapped and held dozens of US Embassy people many months.
* Iran is currently supplying a large number of drones to Russia to bomb Ukraines light and water facilities and thereby killing civilians.
* SA refused to increase oil production to help the West defy Russian anti Ukraine oil and gas blackmail.
* Many thousands of Yeman’s people are dying from this war.
So where and how should the US respond in this messy world. Tick, tick, tock, tick...
Vote no and vote no - enough of this national suicide. Stand up, lying down only begets death.
NO. Absoolutely not.
The entire world is going to war and is going to be reset.
The last thing we need to try and do is sit this one out.
Because the petrodollar keeps the charade in motion.
Isn’t that a great site? I like it!
The Saudis are gone. Squarely aligned with Russia and China.
So is the petrodollar, which we used to prop up Bretton Woods falling.
“Today we are witnessing a strategic rupture in relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia, which is due to several major factors, among which are a very significant reduction in America’s imports of crude oil, of which Arabia was the largest supplier; the end of American support for Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemen; and the intention of US President Joe Biden to save the nuclear agreement with the Shia mullahs of Iran, the sworn enemies of the Sunni Saudis.
This triple “betrayal” by the Americans was taken extremely hard by the Saudi Kingdom, which is particularly sensitive to issues of honor in bilateral relations. The strategic differences between the two countries reached a climax with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, when the Saudi authorities were faced with an existential choice: to continue moving in the footsteps of the United States, or to join the camp of the main adversaries of the USA, which are China and Russia. The second option was chosen.
Unlike America, which has neglected the Saudis’ strategic interests, China has, on the contrary, increased its cooperation with Saudi Arabia. And this bilateral relationship is not limited to the fossil fuel sector, but is expanding significantly in infrastructure, trade and investment. Not only is major Chinese investment in Arabia steadily increasing and China is now buying up nearly a quarter of the Kingdom’s global oil exports, but the Kingdom’s Sovereign Wealth Fund is also planning to begin significant investments in Chinese companies in strategic sectors.
In parallel, in August 2021, a military cooperation agreement was signed between the Saudi Kingdom and the Russian Federation.
Like Russia, Saudi Arabia has taken the path of de-dollarization of trade, and investment with China.
The joint and synchronized actions of Russia, China and OPEC countries on the path of progressive de-dollarization gained momentum with the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, which tore the masks off, and will have an almost inevitable avalanche effect against the global dominance of the U.S. financial system in the future, as central banks in many countries are invited to rethink the logic of reserve accumulation as well as the merits of investing in U.S. treasury bonds.”
https://www.thepostil.com/conflict-in-ukraine-genesis/
Stay home. Work on America. Close our border.
Put America First.
What? We have allies. We have the EU, UK, Australia.
War is business and business is very good for the Globalists and DC insiders.
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