U.S. bombing is of great benefit . . . to the companies that make the planes and the bombs. From Kit Klarenberg at kitklarenberg.com:
Ever since March 15th, Washington has barraged Sanaa from the sky, killing and injuring countless innocent civilians while destroying vital infrastructure. For example, on April 2nd, US jets targeted a reservoir in western Yemen, cutting off access to water for over 50,000 people. Three days later, Donald Trump gloatingly posted a horrific video on social media of a tribal gathering being incinerated in a US airstrike – the President falsely claimed the individuals were in fact “Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack.”
In a chilling coincidence, the bloodcurdling clip was published on the 15th anniversary of the release of “Collateral Murder” by WikiLeaks, gut-wrenching footage filmed three years earlier of US Apache helicopter pilots firing indiscriminately at a group of Iraqi civilians and Reuters journalists, while sickly cackling at the carnage they were inflicting. While that disclosure caused international outcry and scandal, and made WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange an internationally wanted man, openly advertising unconscionable war crimes is now apparently formal US government policy.
US officials have pledged that renewed hostilities against Yemen will continue “indefinitely”, while Trump has bragged how “relentless strikes” have “decimated” AnsarAllah. Yet, on April 4th, the New York Times reported Pentagon officials are “privately” briefing that while the current bombing campaign “is consistently heavier than strikes conducted by the Biden administration”, the effort has achieved “only limited success in destroying the Houthis’ vast, largely underground arsenal of missiles, drones and launchers.” AnsarAllah’s anti-genocide Red Sea blockade thus endures untrammelled.
