{"id":32191,"date":"2018-03-10T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T01:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32191"},"modified":"2018-03-10T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T01:34:52","slug":"us-still-pouring-massive-supply-of-weapons-into-war-torn-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32191","title":{"rendered":"US Still Pouring Massive Supply of Weapons Into War-Torn Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US Still Pouring Massive Supply of Weapons Into War-Torn Yemen<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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(ANTIWAR.COM<\/a>)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Three years into the 2015 Saudi-led invasion of Yemen, untold thousands are dead. Northern Yemen has been through the worst cholera outbreak in human history, and civilians continue to die in bunches from Saudi airstrikes against the region.<\/p>\n

To call Yemen war-torn is really putting it mildly. Yemen is in a disastrous state, with a Saudi-led naval blockade threatening to starve millions. If there\u2019s one thing Yemen has no shortage of, however, it\u2019s weapons, with the\u00a0US\u00a0 ensuring a massive supply continues to pour into the hands of Saudi and Emirati forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n

US arms sales are themselves at a record high during this war, in no small part because of purchases by the United Arab Emirates, and particularly by the Saudis, who are dropping US bombs on northern Yemen as fast as they can buy them.<\/p>\n

And while bombs and warplanes are the big dollar amount of sales, they also include large numbers of US-made automatic rifles and small arms ammunition. The UAE is particular bought $60 million in small arms in 2016 alone, both for their own direct involvement in Yemen and to arm their allied factions on the ground. The Saudis bought another $11 million.<\/p>\n

Yemen isn\u2019t a place to send weaponry that you want well-documented and carefully tracked, either. The Pentagon has\u00a0confirmed they can\u2019t account for about $500 million more in weapons<\/a>\u00a0that they\u2019d given to the Hadi government up to 2015.<\/p>\n

So the Saudi and UAE-bought small arms are being sent to Yemen to replace those \u201clost\u201d weapons, but it\u2019s not as if those weapons literally disappeared. Rather, they\u2019re just not in the hands of officials, or at least not in any above-board way. That\u2019s virtually certain to be the fate of this new influx as well.<\/p>\n

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US Still Pouring Massive Supply of Weapons Into War-Torn Yemen (ANTIWAR.COM)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Three years into the 2015 Saudi-led invasion of Yemen, untold thousands are dead. Northern Yemen has been through the worst cholera outbreak in human history, and civilians continue to die in bunches from Saudi airstrikes against the region. To call Yemen war-torn is really putting […]<\/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],"tags":[8350,1319,13009,701,827,3159,901],"class_list":["post-32191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-media","tag-armaments","tag-jason-ditz","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-states","tag-weapons","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191","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=32191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32192,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191\/revisions\/32192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}