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U.S. Sent Billions in Famine Relief to Yemen. The Population Rose 30%
Front Page Magazine ^ | May 9, 2025 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 05/09/2025 8:45:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

In May 2024, the Biden administration announced that it was providing $220 million in aid to Yemen which the United States had been at war with since the start of that year.

Even while the US Navy was engaged in what the Associated Press would describe next month as the “most intense combat since World War II” with Yemen’s Houthi Jihadists, the U.S. Mission to Yemen boasted of having provided “nearly $5.9 billion” in aid beginning with the Obama administration, of being “the largest donor of humanitarian assistance” and urged that “other donors must join us in stepping up” to fund an Iranian-backed terror group at war with us.

A terror group whose motto, like its Iranian patrons, is “Death to America.”

One arm of the United States government, the Pentagon, was fighting the Houthis, while another arm, the State Department and USAID, were funding them. While Navy personnel on board US Navy vessels had seconds to prepare and counter Houthi strikes, State Department and USAID personnel worked to keep the Houthi’s Hodeidah port open so more “aid” could pass through it. The US Navy was not allowed to strike Hodeidah even though it was the Houthi lifeline for the weapons that the Houthis were using to attack American and other vessels.

The Biden administration had ended President Trump’s support for Saudi action against the Houthis and lavished a fortune on the terrorist areas because terrorist supporters and international groups had falsely claimed that Yemen was suffering from a deadly famine.

Before Islamic terrorist supporters, their leftist allies and international aid groups faked a famine in Gaza to save Hamas, #YemenFamine was trending on social media along with photos of wounded and starving children. Much as in Gaza, there was no famine. Rather the Houthis were seizing international aid which...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; Yemen
KEYWORDS: houthi; houthis; iran; yemen
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1 posted on 05/09/2025 8:45:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Liz; Red Badger; SunkenCiv

No greater enemy to America ever existed than the Obama-Biden-Harris administrations


2 posted on 05/09/2025 8:48:31 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The numbers I saw suggest that the Biden Administration sent over 3 billion dollars a year in foreign aid to Yemen and about 2,8 billion to Iran so the number here may be low
3 posted on 05/09/2025 8:49:38 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s elementary economics: if you subsidize something, you’ll get more of it.


4 posted on 05/09/2025 9:01:55 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

+1 X 100%!

And now the entire Democrat Party has made it clear they are dedicated enemies of America.

It needs to be thoroughly exposed and dismantled.


5 posted on 05/09/2025 9:04:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: Blurb2350

yep, the same with Africa.

they were all dying off in the 80’s and then we started sending aid and now Africa is growing faster than anyone.

It is nuts.


6 posted on 05/09/2025 9:13:48 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

At least most of Africa doesn’t launch missiles at us when we sail by their coasts.

Except Ilhan Omar’s country.


7 posted on 05/09/2025 9:21:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Billions of dollars taken from us to nurture a nation that hates us. Words can’t express how much I despise our politicians.


8 posted on 05/09/2025 9:37:58 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We do not need a foreign policy beyond “No”:

Don’t do that.


9 posted on 05/09/2025 10:42:02 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Robert A Cook PE
One arm of the United States government, the Pentagon, was fighting the Houthis, while another arm, the State Department and USAID, were funding them

The Obama-Biden-Harris administrations gave us this type of insanity...

10 posted on 05/10/2025 1:08:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (Judicial robes aren't invisibility cloaks that allows judges to engage in criminal acts. J Turley)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

We feed them more so they reproduce faster so more can starve to death once there is an overpopulation. An area only supports so many naturally.


11 posted on 05/10/2025 2:53:44 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: Robert A Cook PE

AMEN!!! They are ALL PURE EVIL and so are the people that voted for them!!


12 posted on 05/10/2025 3:32:21 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Too bad the BS USAID of contraceptives didn’t get hyjacked to Yemen right along with the other aid


13 posted on 05/10/2025 4:14:09 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Supports my long held theory regarding Aid to Third World countries:

Situation: Matoomba has a wife and 2 kids. He spends every waking minute trying to feed them. He is too tired and hopefully realizes he couldn't support another child to keep popping them out.

Trigger: It doesn't rain or rains too much. Crops fail, war breaks out. Suddenly Matoomba can't feed his family.

Result: Matoomba and all of his buddies are given more food than they could ever imagine. He no longer spends all of his energy and time gathering food. His belly is full and he's skipped a level in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and pounds out 2 or 3 more kids, insuring the next time a Trigger event happens his situation will be even worse.

14 posted on 05/10/2025 4:52:36 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Blurb2350
...if you subsidize something, you’ll get more of it.

Just one caveat:

Frequently absent desired results.

15 posted on 05/10/2025 5:42:21 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The bidens and their “associates” are/were traitors from the “get go”.


16 posted on 05/10/2025 6:13:03 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Instead of sending them billions, we can send them Planned Parenthood and kill 2 birds with one stone.


17 posted on 05/10/2025 6:20:19 AM PDT by liberalh8ter ( This tagline has taken the month off to attend the inauguration.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Put America First” is turning out to be just another campaign slogan.

Is President Trump repeating the mistake of his first term by taking advice from embedded Deep State Globalists?

This is the kind of international give-away asshattery we elected President Trump to stop.

But now we learn that he wants to spend mega-millions of taxpayer dollars feeding millions of Gaza muslims and rebuilding Gaza.

This is while they are still holding hostages and hostage remains from the October 7th, 2024 Hamas attacks.

We are less than 5% of the world population but have been doing most of the heavy lifting for the rest of the world since 1945.

It’s way past the time for our elected representatives to stop bleeding American workers dry.

They extort our earnings so they can hand out our tax money to people who hate us, want to kill us and actually do kill us at every opportunity.


18 posted on 05/10/2025 6:37:20 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("Put America First" Is Turning Out To Be Just Another Campaign Slogan)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Rock, meet Hard Place. You don’t want kids to starve to death. So you help save them, and they grow up to hate and attack you.


19 posted on 05/10/2025 10:04:15 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE fSPEECH! )
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To: Iron Munro

You deserve Kamala.


20 posted on 05/10/2025 12:08:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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