all their own economies, they're going to have to get off of the dollar in some way. and i think it's a very, it's just a natural reaction to what has been in a very aggressive policy on the part of the guys says, the concept of the multiple are world that are, you know, we'll talk about, i think really needs to be discussed in terms of currency, i do believe that to be the bricks, nations are working very, very quickly to create a regional reserve system for themselves. of that i think is going to be commodity based and they've made it abundantly clear. this is what they want to do. the chinese have just made their overtures to the saudis, to, for the so called petrow, you want by having the saudis and most of arab opec, i'll offer oil tenders on the shanghai change. i think that's a major, major event in geopolitical history. i think the united states and the dollar are going to survive in their own way. i think it's going to be free journal. i think the world is going to break up in the multiple regional currency blocks or not.

finally, in the year just gone, india made clear it's interest in being a major stakeholder in a multi polar world. new delhi officials repeatedly stressed enough aesop, asian country will not be pressured by any state. i bring to you the greeting, soft 1300000000, plus people from the world's largest democracy. we don't need to be told what to do on democracy. we are resolved to make india a developed country. in the next 25 years, we will liberate ourselves from a colonial mindset. externally. this means reformed multilateralism and more contemporary global governance. the somebody say that again, buying a rollover oil from russia. i said the europeans buy more than one afternoon and i do an appointment. i have a moral duty to my consumer. india will respond according to its supreme national interest. look, let me make it very clear. india will buy oil from wherever it has to for the

simple reason that this game of discussion cannot be taken to be consuming population of india. people need to understand if you can be considered to be yourself, surely you can be consider it of other people. so if a europe stays look up, we have to manage it in a way in which it's impact on my economy is not traumatic. oh, duck duck, freedom or duck choice should exist for other people as well. countries in europe and the west and the united states, us focus on why don't they allow iranian oil to come into the market? why don't the la venzano oil to come into the mac? i mean, they've squeezed every other source of oil. we have and then say ok guys, you must not go into the market and get the best deal for your people. i don't think that's a very fair approach. you could ask, why would anybody in asia trust europe on anything at all?

and europe has to grow out of the mindset that europe's problems are the world's problems. but the world's problems are not europe's problems. now interventions are the focus of ortiz new show modus operandi today, digging deeper into conflicts from yemen to have done. this is manila john, and i guess they close for a ah, ah, 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 turned its eyes to ukraine, 1st, the world food program has called this the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. after nearly half a 1000000 people had 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 presence that many describe as an occupation by the why the taliban is back in power in afghanistan. millions of civilians have plunged into extreme poverty, and the new leaders cannot access state funds 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 there are polish and partners in the united arab emirates. yemen is the arab world poorest nation, even prior to the war. meanwhile, saudi arabia and the u. 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 there 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 m 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 way ease. 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 is doctor i showed you mind she's the president and founder of the yemen relief and reconstruction foundation, or known as y r r f. i shall 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 i think he preeminent naming people. this actually is an act whitley don't realize the numbers, every single member was 20000000 to visit him quite often and they

moved and they're showing that you have families, the ceiling. how as their child best thing, by living and dying of hunger. and this is a main main remind me when i say this is not natural causes. so a great your heart is the fact that people are doing this. so i think it's important for the 9th, when we 20000000 people think of the suffering, the dying child. think of the cell railey. this is the parents who are seeing their children going through this community at large was 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 sue director when she and and that was, it was 17 and he said he, he hunger in them and never seen what else. and he actually called if it's something that the bible, the rest and she said that's 20 per sanction. this is some and yet the world not heard this message or the many messages that come out warning, this is happening. and so, yes, this is, this is a deal. and you know, every day i get to choose from problems to my what's up as just show me how things are suffering. and i've had to be don't spend pictures because i can i and i'm puckered from a point of privilege, as you know,

when i see the flu, i follow it. the person many times when i did talk about michigan, i would try and move. this is not professional. i think it's the professional. we have to. we are that i can, i can is it people? i know it's a black me that i'm that my my, my neighbor. i read diseases. yeah. my recording and i just, i bring in history and again, quest sanction should not get me area is bedroom still when page rich would you have women since 1980. so if you look at all in the think there was, you know,

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 in years backwards and was now 30 years backwards. and again, the, she'd love hopping and bushes preventable, unlocked, if it's from diseases, from whether it's getting things instructions. malaria is now back in the room and was all of us. i know when i married, manufactured him and now we are the so

everything that we actually had worked on for many, many words to you know, saying only and then and bring the house because the shop was lost and not just lost if she us with what 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 was, you know, certainly piper's showing on the south side and of course all that and she fell to the wrong 25 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 step. they've all been years of donald's, you know, weapons this hybrid. yes. and again here i burst on the sample. they're just the bomb and they, their tires move, changing almost every other time with science. if the us government decides to not sell the tires, i think that's this idea for sure. of course then you're as was doing, madame human showed the big on bob wonder they as they've been targets out for the bombing, they continue to change them in the pilots. and even though they've been there, as i've said, multiple items that they hardly had bomb civilians and they kept trying to change them for 7 years. so the bomb bomb, civil and after 7 was

a training. i didn't seem to think it just thank you, but this is purposeful. even m s. s, i suppose multiple times. what are the things when this are the coordinates of the both and the largest color center and the south was bill on, on the day that they were not drinking an opening that it was bought. so the us in supporting them from this war would not have started or teaching today without the russia. so the, your as the neutral and there are lots of legal experts who wrote good news about how they were as is and they, so, and cases and the war time. mitchell by the side. and the way you know,

a good thing, a harvard law report that came out to 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 things are going to have to be one or the or she's also one of the most women. but again, i think of all the money that they are banging 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, they're in a think jim and, but they also are the 2nd largest provider of ada.

again, they can to the, comes the, the dollars they get in, in, in selling. what shot there was. yeah. your pan has falls like if they were playing and she said as well. but again, a nation of that you move and not will. we walk me themselves. we cannot triple them cannot. i say, when, when age you with whatever we have, and we're always our mercy. when we decide to donate them, when you find samples in there are still for the for loose they god, i think in terms of their nation. so they can do you mind sharing a lot. i don't want to, i was able to support themselves and they are very are

very hardworking and they tend to do that just with the blocking and let them such it's really sad that they want to get their own 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 of yemen? what's human nation about or? and i want to say here we are basically all one, is there organization 1st and they were asked and women, i just didn't analysis our basket distribution funding. 97 percent of the funds go buying. the glasses on the percent goes through operational. so i don't think any organization anywhere else can fill that where the majority of the

funds $0.98 goes 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, a sheep out becomes the african. and engagement, it was the trail. when so many find themselves will depart,

we choose to look so common ground. holden is the aggressor today. i'm authorizing additional strong sanctions. today russia is the country with the most sanctions imposed against it. a number that's constantly growing. i think you chose a believe you mostly mine or wish you were banding all imports of russian oil and gas new g i g a with the letter from, you know, with joe by imposing these sanctions on russia, you know, has destroy the american economy. so there's your boomerang

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 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 afghanistan. this time, bloodier, more lethal and twice as long, 20 full years spanning for 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. lawton, the mastermind of the $911.00 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. the 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 it's 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 in modern history. the end result. once again, the taliban returned to power this time even before the last of the u. s. boots of

the country, and now more than one year since the u. s. withdraw, 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. dr. rob, thank you for joining us. dr. what, 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 20. 19. i was full time enough teaching at the american university. but right now, you know, every day i talked 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, a hunger poverty health conditions. ok. but you know, that education and employment, lack of cash, all of these to have led to one of the worst situations in history and on the face of the earth. you know, the vast majority of people are hungry. food insecure data center

has gone on with pros, a states engaging in economic sanctions, but also stealing in a way or in founding the $9000000000.00 of the afghan to spend money. so the situation is truly disastrous. it's, 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 would do about a year ago. and it continued economic warfare on

afghanistan, one of the poorest and least developed country in the world to begin with. and you know, after that, like many other countries have a certain amount of foreign currency reserves here deposited in the list seems to be protected. so i had $9000000000.00 in the federal reserve in new york city 7, a 3 billions. i believe in germany, switzerland in italy, simply to be kept safe in this 9 billions belong to afghanistan. because 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, the 9000000000 dollars a inflation that provided the stability.

you know, when people were able to do trade and commerce and import things, in sure 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 fashion, which is to say that 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 end you. in other words, a simply blockaded at economically and we're told now this is where the legal, it was a, you know, i guess,

or any kind of law. i know. and needless to say, it was highly immoral 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 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 activity. so there's, it's almost a full economic paralysis, which is really a worse form of warfare engaged by them. then i just say it's worth and perhaps the military warfare doctor's the hair were hard. 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. ah ah ah.

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk

with the headlines right now and out to you. the national scores of russian soldiers were killed and gone back in a recent attack by ukrainian forces using us applied hi marjorie walker, for the deadly news was confirmed by russia's ministry of defense this month. the m $23.00 militant group may leave several key areas of the democratic republic of congo, soonest, thursday, that is off the months of violence against the local population. there was no kidnap in our village before but sees the m 23 war started is become a frequent problem. people are kidnapped, women raped in children, killed in mass. it's a situation that terrifies us as well and are continuing look.