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me. hello, i'm manila chan. you are tuned into modus operandi the show that explores the methods and patterns of foreign policy all around the world and the history that reverberates in our lives today. in this episode, we'll explore forgotten, humanitarian crises, still being suffered today. as the western world turns, it's eyes to ukraine. first, the world food program has called this the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. after nearly half a 1000000 people have been killed and some 16000000 others teetering on famine. yemen is in the spotlight today as a fragile seas fire draws to a close that after the botched withdrawl and 20 year presence that many describe as an occupation by the wife. the taliban is back in power in afghanistan. millions of civilians have plunged into extreme poverty,

and the new leaders cannot access state fund tied up by the byte in administration to purchase basic food supplies for the population. we'll discuss it. all right. let's get into the ammo. ah, it's been an onslaught since 2015 yemen who be rebels backed by iran fighting it's behemoth neighbors. saudi arabia, along with their coalition partners in the united arab emirates, yemen is the arab world poorest nation, even prior to the war. meanwhile, saudi arabia and the u. a e r the wealthiest. so even without any further details, it's fairly easy to guess who is inflicting the most damage. quote, we have returned to pre civilization. there is no clean water to drink every day, children and certainly people line up with posit tankers donated by some do are of good women and children fight over scraps from rubbish, piles, families,

sleep outside, people are relocated to miserable camps on the outskirts of cities and left their abandoned by the world. forgotten those words from bushrod. i'll mockery a yeah. many journalist. now this carnage, this travesty all made possible by the pentagon. after massive u. s. department of defense contracts to both the saudis and the moratti's. for america's part. it supplies the kingdom with about 80 percent of its arms, ranging from air power in the way of fighter jets, to the more common tactical arms like shells and bullets. saudi arabia is america's number one, military arms customer, or as the u. s. calls it f m. s foreign military sales customer in just 2022 alone. the u. s. d o. d approved and secured a 3000000000 dollar sale of patriot missiles to saudi arabia and about 2300000000

for a bad missile defense system for the u. a. e's. now over the years and through multiple presidents, the deals made between the u. s. and the saudis account for many, many billions of dollars every year. joining me to discuss the humanitarian crisis caused by nearly a decade of us bomb is doctor i showed you mon, she's the president and founder of the yemen relief and reconstruction foundation are known as y r r f. i shot thank you for being with us today. yemen has plunged into a full fledged humanitarian crisis. food shortages, cholera outbreaks, some 23000000 people in dire need. half of those are children unit that has characterized it as a health scape. can you explain for us if this is an accurate depiction and why?

and so i think he preeminent naming people, this actually is and it's him working don't realize numbers is this, those behind single member for 24000000 to visit him quite often. and i moved the call and they're starting to have families mix freely as their child best thing was dying withering in front of their eyes and dying. and this is the main main. remind me when i say this is not due to not some causes. so a great, your height is the fact that people are doing those. so i think it's important for the thought back nines. when we 20000000 people think of

the child. think the self bring up. this was parents who aren't seeing their children going through this community at large boost separating and had been shifting for almost 8 years now and ever been washing and not doing so. i remember the 1st i'm and a few that actor when she and, and that was 2017 and he had he hunger in them and never seen what else. and he actually called the, it's something bad, the bible, the rest. and she said that's when he 1st sanction this is some and, and yet the world, not her is message. or the mini mester, there's the warning. this is happening. and so yes, this is, this is deal. and, you know,

every day i get it chose from problems to my what's up as just show me how things are suffering. and i had to cancel the phone saying this was i can on you know, and i'm puckered from a point of privilege is when i see the following question. many times when i did also talked about them in michigan, i would try and move. this is not refreshing professional, we have to, we are dance. i can, i can both. if people, i know it's the place me was there. i'm that my we might lose my neighbor. right? diseases in my recording and i just, i bring in districts and again,

sanctioning which should not be i guess the area is federal still main page area, which would you have when i was just 19 so if you look at all in the think it was months we've seen about women has as last about us progress in the health and, and that's again, not, not acceptable. i did an analysis that i published as, as seen on the house and there was, and 2016 was on one year after the war. and we had ship thing, yes, backwards. and we're now 30 years backwards. and again, this is not happening. and bush's preventable. unlocked, if it's from diseases from you soon by getting things

infections. malaria is now back in one on women was almost, i know i've been married and now we are the so everything that we actually had worked on for many, many wedge to you know, things and then and, and bring the house shops this last. and now the last, last one of the role of the united states, how has the u. s. foreign policy helped or harm gammon? yeah, unfortunately the, your foreign policy has quite a bit. every life that if i was to find them, was supported by the us government, whether it was, you know,

certainly pipe is showing on the south side and a quarter of the should be a sell to the world's 25 percent goes to target. so that since you are much controller and how much dependence the saudi are in terms of arms on the step in there, so been years donald's weapons decide. yes. and again here i'll give you a very small sample. they're just the bomb human. they, they're tired, changing almost every time the science, if the us government decides to not sell the tires or the depths this hardly a question of course, then you're as well if you mean show the big wanda they as they've been targets

out for the bombing, they continues to chain them in the pilot of the thing though they bigger, as i've said, multiple items that they already had. bombs should winnings and they kept trying to change the 1st 7 years. so the bomb bomb simmons and after 7 with the training, i didn't seem to bang it just back to you, but this is purposeful. even m. s. s, i suppose multiple times was august when this are the coordinates of the both the nicest cholera center. and the south was built on on the day that they were inaugurated with an opening that it was. so the u. s. in supporting them from a to see this war would not have started or teaching today without a rush. so the, your,

as the usual and there are lots of the, the experts we're going to see about how the new as is and play. so an empty spaces and the work, mitchell, by the way, you know, a good thing. harvard law report that came out, i think in 2020 anyway. they said they asked us to ship and they were, comes to the right outside of civilian donations, to organizations like yours. have you seen much in the way of aid coming from other nations around the world? and if so, who or what countries have come to humans aid like a change? i think the thing to have one or the or also wanted to women. but again, if i think of all the money they need from selling arms to very plans where they

provide the same thing, whether we're talking about the facts or the will continue to say, you know, they think jim and, but they also are the 2nd largest provider there was a, again, they contribute to the the dollars the biggest and it's telling saga with yes, japan has falls like of the century as well. but again, the nation of coaching them and not will be able to help themselves. we cannot triple them, cannot triple them. i say when, when, when age you with whatever we have and we will always our mercy when we decide to donate them when you decide not to, for example, i was still for the,

for they got, i think a 3rd the question in terms of their mission so they can do you mind telling me i'm and i don't want to i want to be able to support themselves and they are very c as we are very hard work things. and they tend to do that. just the blocking and let's see for themselves. it's really sad that they want to get away sion hostage to their generosity when they want to move and walk them. how can people learn more about your organization and help the people yell and what's the human nation does or and i want to say, here we are. basically, all one is, here are the nation, both in the us and women. i just didn't analysis are the best solution from the

funding. 97 percent of the funds buying the glasses on the percent goes to our personal. so i don't think any organization anywhere else can say that where the majority of the funds are $0.98. go to the doctor. i showed you mon, of the yemen relief at reconstruction foundation. thank you. and when we return, we'll rewind the clock back 20 years to revisit afghanistan, a country that suffered a direct war, waged by the united states known as the forever war. don't go anywhere. the m o will be right back. i ah, ah

ah . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is offensive, very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk in

1898. the island of puerto rico became a u. s. colony, but still retain its own cultural identity. we can speak in favor of independence. we be thrown into prison today, close to half its population live in poverty. moreover, residence in puerto rico have new representation in congress and con, vote and u. s. presidential elections like okay, we're gonna make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for, even if we were office citizenship with the head. and we would prefer, around one say, gonna was in his twenties, he chose to fight for his homelands independence. we felt that we could generate more of a spirit of resistance, rather than of submissive accept or reality that we felt was like, shockingly unfair. my sorry that i decided to fight for my country. no, i'm not. could i have done things differently? yes, absolutely. do i now think that violence is not the means to achieve anything?

absolutely. the me. it's done the graveyard of empires. afghanistan, the geographical center, that is the middle east. this land locked central asian rugged country has fought off invaders of all sorts through the millennia. now in the modern 20th century, it staved off the formidable soviet army from 1979 and watched the last of the soviets withdraw. in 1989, a nearly decade, long conflict that contributed to the collapse of the ussr. the taliban seized power after this withdraw. then roughly a decade later, after the 911 attacks in new york city, american president george w bush brought another war to afghan. a stan, this time, bloodier, more lethal and twice as long, 20 full years spanning 4 presidents,

20 years of us, boots on the ground, and american bombs littering the country. and the premise for the bush war in afghanistan, bush believed the afghans were harboring osama bin lot in the mastermind of the 911 attacks. so this began a new era of warfare which introduced unmanned drones along with hand to hand combat, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of others displaced by america's longest war. oh, yeah, let's not forget to include that president bush invited his friends from nato to join in on that war. after the us completed its withdrawal in august of 2021. the estimated cost of the war fell around to $2.00 trillion dollars, making afghan to stand the most expensive the longest and ugliest war and modern history. the end result. once again,

the taliban returned to power this time even before the last of the u. s. boots the country and now more than one year since the u. s. withdrawal afghanistan is facing a new crisis. a wave of starvation with a government that is not recognized as official by the west. that's asking for help . 23000000 afghans risk the slow, horrible death through starvation. joining us to discuss is dr. wa hobbs, a hair, a native afghan, who served as a senior advisor to the afghan minister of higher education for many years. he's a professor emeritus at lewis and clark college in oregon. doctor will hob, thank you for joining us. dr. will. how can you please explain for us the situation on the ground in afghanistan now, one year since the u. s. withdrawal? yes. well, i, my software, you know,

in afghanistan is october 2019. and of course for the last 2 decades, i had been going back and forth every year. and then the last 7 years, 2013 to 2019. i was full time in taking it the american in a spam. but right now, you know, every day i talk to people in afghanistan and i read about afghanistan. so the situation is really tragic. it's disaster. it's more than critical, you know, hunger poverty, a health conditions. ok. but you know, education and employment and lack of cash. all of these have that to one of the worst situations in history and on the face of the earth. you know, the vast majority of the people are hungry, food insecure, are the central,

has gone, almost froze. you know, the united states engaging in economic sanctions, but also seating in a way or in founding the $9000000000.00 of the afghan to spend money. so the situation is truly a disaster, since it's tragic, it's in human. i would say it's almost like a genocide in slow motion. the afghan central bank has around $7000000000.00 us dollars in reserves that are held overseas. why is the u. s. government able to control this money. why can't the afghan government access its own money? you know, the united states when the usaa withdrew or was defeated or got tired will do about a year ago. and it continued economic warfare on

afghanistan. one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world to begin with. and you know, after that, like many other countries, a certain amount of for foreign currency reserves here deposited in the u. s. seems to be protected. so i have $9000000000.00 in the federal reserve in new york city. 7000000000 in u. s. and the 3 billions i believe in germany, switzerland in italy, simply to be kept safe in this 9 billions belong to afghanistan, the country and to the afghan. people did not belong to any government or any individual. this was just for safe keeping. this was important because, you know, these 9000000000 dollars there's a cushion, i guess,

inflation that provided the stability. you know, then people were able to do trade in commerce. import things. in short did was sort of the foundation, the backbone of the afghan economic activity. but the united states, a year ago, i decided to sort of empower this money. but in addition to bad, united states also declared the sanctions economic sasha, which is to say there was no money going to anywhere from $2.00 afghanistan. i tried to send small amounts of money to some starving families a year ago, and i was not allowed to send back money. the same was true for c. multinational agencies, other governments, other and you know, there was a year ago and then i just a simply blockaded at economically and we're told now that this is,

was the legal, it was a, you know, i guess, or any kind of law i know. and needless to say, it was highly in warren, because what it means is that there's hardly any cash in afghanistan there's, there's no banking activity. there's no cash coming in to very little cash coming in. you know, the country became de capitalized and no one has any money. and the government has very little money, organizations, agencies, and institutions. and yours, individuals. there's no money or, you know, employers don't have money. workers don't have money, there's no work. there's very little economic activities, so there's it almost a full economic paralysis, which is really a worst form of warfare engaged by there. you know, i just say it's worth and perhaps the military warfare doctor's a hair were ha,

thank you so much for being with us. today, wars are horrible, the immediate devastation is obvious. but why does it appear that some victims of war are more worthy of help than others? these wars in afghanistan and yemen waged by the west, or at least enabled by it, have also been forgotten by it. that's going to do it for this week's episode of modus operandi the show that digs deep into foreign policy. i'm your host manila chan. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next week to figure out the ammo . ah ah, for is your media reflection of reality

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