Are Yemeni Lives Worth less than Ukrainian Lives? #Yemencrises
There are thousands of people injured and dead in Yemen. Up to 25 million people, including millions of refugees, are at risk of starvation and death. According to reports, this man-made hunger brought on by sanctions kills one Yemeni kid every ten minutes. America, Britain, NATO and “Israel” are getting more and more involved in both crises. War, conflict, murder, displacement, and poverty are becoming more and more common worldwide as a result of Western imperialism and American unipolar domination.
While the poorest Arab country defends its sovereignty against a coalition of some of the world’s richest countries, with its increasingly sophisticated drone and ballistic missile capability, equips its military with the expertise to target anywhere in Yemen, and even further afield, It won’t be long before Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates realise that Yemen may very likely be destroyed as a result of this failed war. And the West keeps lending its assistance by shipping weapons and imposing no restrictions at all. THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY.
The despairing reality is that we conquered space but failed to conquer starvation in Yemen. A decade before, before the war, Yemenis had everything, children are dying out of starvation and we don’t hear them pleading. Every single morsel of wasteful meat that is going into the mouths of monsters responsible for the erupting of civil war in the peaceful deserts of Yemen is like a slap on their faces induced by the tear-filled eyes of starving children. Millions of people in Yemen have been displaced, despaired and discriminated against in the deserts that originated from a military conflict that wasn’t theirs.
It is the world's largest and worsening humanitarian crisis. Extreme malnutrition is increasing every year risking countless Yemeni lives.
The fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already resulted in fuel price increases in America and Europe, with more economic hardships to be endured not by the rich elite who fuel these wars, but by the people already struggling under neo-liberal austerity measures favoured by the IMF and the privatisation sector in western governmental structures that reinvents itself with each new administration.
While Yemeni lives are meaningless in West Asia and Ukrainian refugees fleeing to Russia are invisible, the propaganda machine, which tolerates no dissent, viciously attacks Russia as the aggressor and promotes western Ukrainians as the victims. Palestinians are characterised as terrorists, while Yemen is seen as the aggressor and Saudi Arabia is the sufferer. And “Israel” is just a peaceful country that wants to live in safety.
The media tries to persuade us that oppressed people are bad people, aggressors are victims, and black is white. Although there are two disputes here, they have a same origin. American foreign policy is driven by the corporate goal to dominate global markets, sow discord and profit in equal measure, quash any resistance, and seize control of other countries’ sovereign resources.
They used to do it directly by military occupation, as they did in Iraq, Vietnam, and Ireland, but today they use proxy wars that involve financial sanctions, unilateral coercive measures, proxy wars, and covert activities by the CIA and non-governmental organisations to overthrow governments. All of us must show our support for those in Yemen, Crimea, Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and anywhere else that fights imperialism, advocates for a multipolar world and reject islamophobia.
The Apocalyptic Famine
The World Food Programme said that eight million Yemenis will have their food rations cut this year, while another five million people “at immediate risk of slipping into famine circumstances” would continue to receive full rations. This was even before Russia invaded its neighbour. Up to 19 million people may need food aid in the second half of 2022, according to UN agencies, which claim that “clearly, acute concerns about events in Ukraine are casting a shadow over YEMEN.” We had hoped for more, especially from regional donors who have yet to step out and pledge money for a crisis in their own backyard, saying things like, “If we act now, we can prevent what might be a point of no return and save millions.”
Major donors Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — two of the top three at the conference last year — did not make any financial commitments this year. It is necessary to stop the deterioration of the global south, which results in the wealth of those countries moving to the North. In a multipolar world where wealth and resources are shared for the good of the people, not the few, I wish for the end of imperialism and the triumph of socialism. Yemen needs a voice, However, those voices were silenced under the imperialism of the West.
