to an all out civil war, take a look at the situation from russia's point of you, if you can, and ask yourself the simple questions. could moscow leave the people of them both behind a population that has been suffering for nearly 9 years and continues to die under constant and indiscriminate artillery shelling by ukraine to this day was the kremlin wrong. not to trust the west and mesa, who prompted billions of military age into key of over all these years. is russia wrong? when it says natal expansion is a direct security threat especially taken into account that washington has never hidden is 3 reasons. united states age ukraine and her people so that we can fight russia over there. and we don't have to fight russia here. so who really provoked the war and incited hatred among the people of ukraine? the answer is clear to the families of thousands of people here and done boss killed by key of illegally installed regime. the point of no return was crossed.

how long time ago? romantic also have r t done escrow public. now interventions are the focus of today's modus operandi, digging deeper into conflicts from yemen to afghanistan. it's manila chum on her guests. stay close for that. ah ah ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on 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 with

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the 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 its 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 fees fire draws to a close that after the botched withdrawl and 20 year present. 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'd be rebels, backed by iran fighting it behemoth neighbors. saudi arabia, along with our 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 elderly people line up with pots at tankers donated by some doer 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. l. 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 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 fad missile defense system for the u, a. e. 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 cause by nearly a decade of us bombs, is doctor i, dumont, she is 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. unicef has characterized it as a health scape. can you explain for us if this is an accurate depiction and why? and so chicky preeminent naming people. this actually is an act whitley don't realize, members of mine, every single member was 21 to visit him quite often and they moved. and they're starting to have families to mix really hot as their child best thing by living in front of their eyes and dying. and this is the main main. remind me when i say this is not due to lack of causes. so a great, your height is the fact that people are doing those. so i think it's important to

be thought, recognise when we 23000000 people think of the suffering . the dying child thinks the self bring up. this is the parents who are seeing their children going through this community at large. we're separating and had been shifting for almost 8 years now and ever been washing and not been. i remember the 1st i'm an hour to director when she and and that was 17. and he said he, he hunger in them. and i've never seen what i was. and he actually called there is something bad the bible, the rest. and she said that's when he 1st sanction this is some and,

and yet there was not heard his message or the mini mester, there's the warning. this is happening. and so yes, this is, this is a deal. and, you know, every day i get to chose from problems to my what's up as just show me how things are suffering. and i've had to get people don't send pictures because i can i am puckered from a point of privilege, as you know, when i see there's pictures of follow passions. many times when i did talk about the machine i was try and this is not professional to professional. we have to, we are dance. i can, i can if people i know it's like me, that's my later. my neighbor,

right, diseases in my record, they the largest in history and again, the 21st century should not i guess the area is federal still main page area which we know you have when i was just thinking. so if you look at all in the think it was, you know, months we've seen about women has as life about us progress in the health and, and that's again, men are not acceptable are. i did an analysis that i published as, as seen on the husband and 2016 was on one year after the war and we have chip in years and years now 30 years backwards. and

again, she's not popping in bushes presentable. unlocked the, dies from diseases from those things. infections. malaria is now back in boston, one on women was almost no, we're not married men and women. and now we are the so everything that we as public specials, worked on for many, many words to you know, saying only and then and, and bring the house shops, there's loss. and now the last, last what of the role of the united states? how has the u. s. foreign policy helped or harmed human? yeah, unfortunately, the, your foreign policy has quite

a bit. every life that this was to them was supported by the us government. whether where, you know, certainly pipe is showing on the south side and a quarter of the should be a sell to the world. a 5 percent. those just targeted. yes. so that can you are much console us and how much dependence the saudi are in terms of arms on the stephan. it's all been years. donald's weapons decided to yes. and again here i'll give you a very small sample. they're just the bomb human. they. there's hires move changing almost every time with science. if the us government decides to not sell the tires for the debts, this hardly

a fortune of course, as we're doing it's human. so the big on wonder as they've been targets out for the bombing the as continues to change them in the pilots. and even though they've been there, as i've said, multiple items that they had bomb siblings and they kept trying to train them for 7 years. so the civil service was a painting. i don't think seems to bang it just thank you. but this is purposeful. even i miss that i suppose multiple times was targeting when this are the coordinates of the schools and their live in colorado center in the south. but bill, on, on the day that they were inaugurate, was an opening that it was. so the us in supporting

them from a to see this war would not have started only teaching today without the russia. so the, you're as usual and there are lots of legal experts to say about how they were as is and they so, and, and, and the world kind of, mitchell by this. and the way you know, including harvard law reports that came out to 2020 anyway, they said they, they asked social and they were constituted right beside each other 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 us to teach? ah, it seems to be going to have to be one also wanted to women. but

again, if i think of all the money they need from selling arms to solve very plans where they provide the same thing, whether we're talking about france or the will continue to say, you know, there anything given, but they also are the 2nd largest provider, sharp again, they contribute to the the dollars the biggest influence in it's telling what psycho japan has falls like of the century as well. but again, a nation of coaching them and not will we be able to help themselves. we cannot triple them, can not to 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 last sample i was still for the for they god, i think the question in terms of their mission, so they can do you carry a lot, ma'am, and i don't want to i want to be able to support themselves and they are very yesterday where are very hard work things and they tend to do that. just the blocking and then science. it's really sad bad, they want to get on way 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 nice is human foundation or?

and i want to say here we are a li are one is here are the nation and they were 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 through operational. so i don't think any organization . i'm anywhere else can say that where the majority of the funds are $0.98. go to a doctor. i said, 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 ammo will be right back, i ah,

ah, ah ah, ah, in 1898. the island new 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 ro,

the residence of puerto rico. have no representation in congress and con, vote and u. s. presidential elections like okay, you wanna make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for, even if we were office citizenship with the head and we would prefer are wrong. we want to get a, 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 reality that we felt was like shockingly unfair. my sorry, that i decided to fight for my country. no, i'm not. could 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 landlocked 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 withdrawn. 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 afghanistan. this time, bloodier, more lethal and twice as long, 20 full years spanning for presidents, 20 years of us boots on the ground, an american bombs littering the country. and the premise for the bush war in afghanistan, bush believed the afghans were harboring osama bin lot and 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 u. s. completed its withdrawal in august of 2021. the estimated cost of the war fell around to $2.00 trillion dollars. making up can 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. boot 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 be 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. dr. what hon. thank you for joining us, doctor 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, date 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 20. 19. i was full time enough teaching at the american university. 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, health conditions and you know, education and employment, lack of cash. all of these that have led 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, the center has gone almost a states engaging in economic sanctions,

but also stealing in a way or in founding the $9000000000.00 off the afghan is some money. so the situation is truly disastrous. it's. it's tragic, it's in the 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 would do about a year ago. and it continued economic warfare on afghanistan. one of the poorest and least developed countries the world to begin with. and you know, after that, like many other countries have

a certain amount of for foreign currency reserves here deposited in the list seems to be protected. so i have $9000000000.00 in the federal reserve in new york. 7000000000 in u. s. and then 3 billions, i believe in germany, switzerland in italy, simply to be kept safe in this 9 billions belong to afghanistan because they end to the afghan people. it 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 question against inflation that providing a stability you know, then people were able to do trade and commerce. import things. in short,

it 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. in other words, you're a good there and i just a simply blockaded at economically and we're told now this is where the legal it was the, you know, i guess for 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 into the 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 activity. so there's it almost a full economic parenthesis, which is really a worse form of warfare engaged by them. then i just say it's worth and perhaps the military warfare doctors the hair will 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. chad. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next week to figure out the ammo in. ah. with november 22nd 2022 outraged orthodox christians confronted ukrainian security service offices looking entrances and exits to keep the oldest monastery. they were

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