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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: 202405; biden; bidenadmin; bidenadministration; fakefamines; foreignaid; gazafamine; hamas; hodeidah; houthi; houthis; iran; leftwingnuts; libmyths; port; usaid; usn; yemen; yemenfamine; yemeniport
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To: Robert A Cook PE

WAS ALWAYS TAUGHT:

NEVER FEED THE FERAL CATS===

ALL YOU GET IS MORE FERAL CATS


21 posted on 05/10/2025 12:57:41 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You’re not thinking clearly.


22 posted on 05/10/2025 1:24:56 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Put America First" Is Turning Out To Be Just Another Campaign Slogan)
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