US weapons sales to Saudi Arabia enabled famine killing hundreds of thousands of Yemenis

Evidence

In the six years since Obama entered the United States in the war in 2015, 100,000 Yemenis were killed and 250,000 people starved to death. Empire has sanctioned such vulnerability to premature death both in its liberal and crude racist forms. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 538

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to the earlier finding that liberal and Trump-era imperial policies converge; supports the MOC thread’s test of whether the standing-apparatus loop is content-agnostic across liberal and illiberal forms.
• XREF: connects to: US war in Yemen caused 100,000 deaths and 250,000 starvation deaths since 2015; US Cold War aid to Saudi Arabia enabled the Bin Laden family fortune — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 1114; The US-backed Saudi war in Yemen killed 100,000 and starved 250,000 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The US-backed Saudi war in Yemen killed 100,000 and starved 250,000 #corroborates (0.95)
• Saudi Arabia’s US-backed war has wrought famine on Yemen without global condemnation #exemplifies (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1187