Today’s headlines concerned the Big Bully and his annoying little side kick picking on someone far smaller and weaker than themselves.
Or as the news would
have it, the US and Britain sent aircraft to bomb targets in Yemen. In a statement that could have been written
by Orwell himself, Little Rishi claimed that dropping bombs on (what we once
called) a third world country, thousands of miles away was an act of “self
defence”. The “self” we are apparently defending
are merchant ships heading through the Red Sea towards the Suez Canal and
Europe. Old pissy pants Joe Biden was
more honest saying “the action will
protect the free flow of international commerce…” What the bullies are actually defending are
the interests of the super rich, it is in no way about protecting you and me.
The people being bombed are the
Houthi, a group in the war ravaged country that I know little about, except
they are enemies of Saudi Arabia and are attacking ships in solidarity with the
Palestinians being slaughtered by the state of Israel. It’s a confusing world we live in, Saudi Arabia
has an appalling human rights record and Israel is currently practicing genocide
yet the US and Britain look the other way.
Some boats get attacked and we drop bombs on a desert state.
It’s also ridiculous that we find military
action affordable yet we can’t fund our public services, what would do more to
protect ordinary people? Also we don’t
have to go back very far into history to see what the result of western
military action is, thousands more refugees crossing borders. While this is going on the arms trade
flourishes and a small group of people will be adding a few more billions to
their personal wealth. If you were a
cynical person you might conclude that was the real point to it all.
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