{"id":27955,"date":"2017-11-14T07:48:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27955"},"modified":"2017-11-14T07:48:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:48:52","slug":"millions-face-starvation-in-yemen-due-to-saudi-arabias-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27955","title":{"rendered":"Millions Face Starvation in Yemen Due to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Millions Face Starvation in Yemen Due to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Blockade<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Two years ago, German intelligence warned the world of the unique risks Saudi Arabia posed to the region. I covered it at the time in the post,\u00a0German Intelligence Warns \u2013 Saudi Arabia to Play \u201cDestabilizing Role\u201d in the Middle East<\/a><\/strong>. Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia is at risk of becoming a major destabilizing influence in the Arab world,\u00a0German\u00a0intelligence has warned.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Internal power struggles and the desire to emerge as the\u00a0leading Arab power\u00a0threaten to make the key Western ally a source of instability, according to the BND intelligence service.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe current cautious diplomatic stance of senior members of the\u00a0Saudi royal family\u00a0will be replaced by an impulsive intervention policy,\u201d a BND memo widely distributed to the German press reads.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia has previously been accused of supplying arms and funding to jihadist groups fighting in Syria, including Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil).<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the core of this intelligence warning was none other than crown prince Mohamed bin Salman, or MBS. I\u2019ve been warning about the specific dangers presented by his brazen and sociopathic personality for years, and the recent purge finally threw it all into the spotlight for everyone to see.<\/p>\n

MBS has already wreaked havoc on portions of the region with his reckless and failed polices with respect to both Yemen and Qatar. Today\u2019s post will focus on the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Yemen, courtesy of the Saudi crown prince.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em><\/a> reported last week:<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia\u2019s three-day-old blockade of entry points to Yemen threatens to plunge that war-ravaged country into a famine that could starve millions of people, the top relief official of the United Nations said Wednesday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Millions Face Starvation in Yemen Due to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Blockade Two years ago, German intelligence warned the world of the unique risks Saudi Arabia posed to the region. I covered it at the time in the post,\u00a0German Intelligence Warns \u2013 Saudi Arabia to Play \u201cDestabilizing Role\u201d in the Middle East. Here\u2019s an excerpt: Saudi Arabia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[22,17013,4285,6174,701,2308,827,901],"class_list":["post-27955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-survival-2","tag-al-jazeera","tag-blockade","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-starvation","tag-united-states","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27956,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27955\/revisions\/27956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}