Sadly, I think it is mainstream and people just don't care.

It's the lead story at the New Yorker right now.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-catastrophe-of-saudi-arabias-trump-backed-intervention-in-yemen

I agree with you. I hope we do change and make things better. We don't need to hear of another genocide and then talk about what we can do next time to stop it.

Yeah, as long as invading Yemen isn't he answer. Adding more men with weapons isn't the solution.

True

Yet, no one gives a shit about all the Americans left to rot in Puerto Rico. People are dying there too.

The sad part is Puerto Rico probably looks worse than Yemen, and not a single fuck given

You have no idea what you're talking about. Yemen has been at war for years and tens of thousands of people have died and many diseased and starving. Puerto Rico doesn't have power and it's not in great shape, but you can't compare it to an active war zone.

I think it's also hard for people to empathize with those so far away with no social connection, remember reading something about a monkeysphere theory I believe that dealt with this? Could have been something else but I don't have the time to read up right now, I think that people care but I don't think that people care enough to do anything about it really. Getting it into mainstream news is nice for awareness but what is it really going to do unless people are out there en mass protesting on the streets? Truth is the government could give two shits less what we think, there is no repercussion for them except maybe a little media outrage, then what? It's a shame that innocent people are out there dying and our government can help to prevent that but why would they considering they're the ones supporting it.

we have become so desensitized

Its not good for anyones mental health to focus on every single atrocity that happens. We are desensitized because you literally cannot care about most of the world. If you spent every day of your life sad about dying kids in the world, well you're not ever going to do anything but cry about all the dead kids.

Hell there are American citizens that are homeless and starving yet we dont care about them. Why should the people in the US care about people in Yemen if we dont even care about the people here?

No, we don't. We aren't the caretakers of the world, we don't want that position, and the American people have made that pretty fucking clear.

We are helping fund that crisis..you seem to ignore that fact.

Seems always a bit unreal to me when someone talks about the good people in the civilized world could be somehow brought to care about that when significant portions of those exact same people don't even care for the weak in their own countries.

What do you consider mainstream?

Most people on Instagram and the like are kissing that part of the worlds and they definitely don't read the New Yorker.

Hah. True, I was just thinking mainstream news, but they still aren't even mainstream in that sense.

/pol/ got elsagate mainstream. not /r/conspiracy. just saying.

Lets Ignore the fact that Iran is funding the Houthi rebels in Yemen & they have launched missiles at the Sauds. A Saud/Iran war in Yemen is what is happening. Ignore the fact Obama sent a plane load of cash to Iran knowing they would use it for shit like this. Oh well.

US isnt backing them anymore. Maybe some Americans are, not US

SA and the US are both sockpuppets of Israel.

Yes, that was an Obama era weapons deal that Trump didn’t stop. The world has had the opportunity to stop SA in Yemen, and nobody is stepping up to definitively bring an end to the conflict. Nations have begun to just “stop supporting the conflict”

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i have not heard anything about the US stopping the refueling of saudi f16s that are bombing yemen. i presume we are still doing so.

Saudi Arabia provides America with oil and intelligence services, we also house huge military bars in their country

Iran actively opposes American interests in the region and funds terror organizations.

The new king of Saudi Arabia is actively disbanding the terror systems and corruption that had infested the kingdom for years.

The current war coming with Iran is inevitable, Obama did this with his pivot to Iran during the Isis crisis in his hope that Shia leadership would resolve the issue, it has now led to a broad coalition of Sunni states, plus Israel, to align. In the end it will probably make for a more stability eventually unlike the complete chaos we have had for the past decade.

I'm a noninterventionist which means i think bad shit happening is impossible to avoid. The Sauds should be doing this. That area of the world should be fighting their own battles. Iran could choose to not escalate but they want this. 150 children dying a day... Show me proof. Maybe stop shooting rockets at the Sauds b/c you want fundamental islamic rule for the region & dont want to modernize it.

The Saudis are a key US ally of the region. We rely on them to maintain stability in the region and so that oil is traded in dollars. I get that it's unjustifiable from these kids' perspective. But what is the alternative here? Do we want another Syria, Libya, Afghanistan or Iraq on our hands?

All at the hands of the US already they shouldn’t have been giving money to the enemy

I agree on that point. So the question becomes are they a net positive to maintain as an ally. Things seem to be in flux in KSA right now, hopefully we (US) are pulling some strings.

Time will tell

Maybe stop shooting rockets at the Sauds b/c you want fundamental islamic rule for the region & dont want to modernize it.

What? The Saudis are way more Islamic fundamentalists than Iran. The Saudis just gave woman the right to drive (with a man in the car) and stone people regularly. Iran is no picnic, but compared to Saudi Arabia it is super modern and progressive.

The recent purge in SA is an effort Saudi Royal family to bring some reform to middle eastern islam which far surpasses anything Iran is currently doing.

Iran is already way more modern than SA. The recent reforms to allow women to drive and the like are still nowhere close to what Iran already looks like. Over half of Iranian college students are women, they can drive and vote and work, and have a less restrictive dress code than SA. It also has some semblance of a democracy, unlike the SA kingdom.

Do you seriously know nothing about the countries except for a few recent news articles? Iran has become much less fundamentalist in the last decade, but even before it was in no way comparable to SA.

The recent purge is to solidify the power of the new Monarch that will take over in a few years, Mohammed Bin Salman.

Both sides are fundamentalists, Iran is actually more progressive than Saud is

Dude, they're Arabs, no one cares

Elsagate has been discussed here for over 6 months... I'm starting to feel bad for those kids if it takes as long to pick up traction

just let them flee to europe, that solves everything.

RIP Europe

blacklivesmatter

First, all news that comes out of a war zone is propaganda in one way or another. Second read this twitter thread. The guy is a huge Trump cheerleader, but he's the smartest of them and if what he's saying about Saudi Arabia is true, they're on their way to real reform.

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/927052304498298885

Mohammed Bin Salman is solidifying his power of there, a friend of mine is interning over there in finance and the purge is being spun to look like some reformist strategy but it's a power move.

US forces destroyed political opposition to Saudi influence in Yemen by murdering a ton of them with drone strikes. Apparently it was an accident. This was released by Wikileaks in the famous Cablegate leak about 5 years ago.

Perhaps we should focus on starving folks and problems at home first.

This. The US causes problems at home and abroad, but suddenly we are trained only to care about what's going on at home again. It's a good way to distract us.

Even better, it's a good way to control us.

People think divide and conquer only refers to nationality, political affiliation, sex... It's easy to let your fellow human suffer when they seem a world away. As long as they keep us from becoming united in any way shape or form, they will always control us.

Their will probably never be awareness about this issue, as it leads back to Israel, and when ever an issue leads back to Israel it never goes mainstream.

That's fucking illegal.

They can't eat the $400,000,000 in weapons and equipment Obama disappeared there?

Go feed the then karma police. Shut up.

U.S.A. cannot save everyone. No apologies.

The US is backing this blockade...

There are 3 types of people in this world. Those who promote evil. Those who stand against evil. And those who do nothing. Where do you stand?

Time to take care of our own people

disgusting vile pig

I got through on NPR about this

The cia has been running rampant....we need to put out hits....as a world.....this is old news.

But it seems brown kids don't matter.

so fucked up..

I hope so. Cuz goddamn if ANYONE I know has any inkling of how fucked up the human race truly is.

People need a break after Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.

The sheeple are too busy with praising Obama to think about this mess that he started

I wanna see it get to 200 by the end of the quarter!

Love, Israel.

You will get downvoted to hell everywhere on reddit bringing up Yemen or Obama in the same sentence much less trumps continued war there. Its a huge profit center for the military industrial complex so it will completely distort media.

It's not "Trump's continued war", it's Saudi Arabia's war which started under Obama, Trump sold them weapons in a deal started by Obama...

All we gotta do is to get Joe Rogan to tweet about it!

foreign aid is bullshit anyway. bad things happen & always will.

maybe stop funding saudi arabia with hundreds of billions of dollars in arms and they won't turn around and massacre civillians, asshat

are you retarded? i didn't say anything about that

sorry it's 4 am off to bed lol

Who cares? Have you heard what EA'S tried to do with star wars?!

I believe their own countries backed my terrorist groups are preventing the aid from getting there. I believe this was reported some 3 months ago

Australia is actively selling weapons to the KSA to help bomb the civillians but all the fking SJW's care about is non-stop coverage of their stupid fking gay marriage plebiscite. Yemen hasn't even been mentioned in weeks.

But I thought Trump ran on a campaign of non-interventionism?

I'm shocked! Shocked I say.

Yep, and that's what we're doing: not intervening in a war between SA, our ally, and the Iran backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. Are you saying you want us to intervene?

We aint gor enough balls to do so. If we pust that mainstream people are gonna die..

What I am really concerned about is are the innocent civilians that are going die. Especially when you consider this is amidst one of the worst cholera outbreaks in the country's history.

https://invertedlogicblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/political-opinions32-saudi-arabia-and-human-rights-violations/

From Nov 8th..?

"Saudi coalition lets Yemen's Aden port reopen" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security/saudi-coalition-lets-yemens-aden-port-reopen-idUSKBN1D82LO

sorry it's 4 am off to bed lol