The Biden Administrations Absurd Justification For Its Yemen War by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-01-22 at 23:24:05 )

The Biden Administrations Absurd Justification For Its Yemen War by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The unspoken premise behind this justification is that an active genocide should be permitted to continue with zero economic repercussions of any kind, for Israel or anyone else.

On Monday the United States launched its eighth wave of airstrikes in its new war against Yemeni forces, which it has now formally titled "Operation Poseidon Archer". The strikes are aimed at breaking a Red Sea shipping blockade which the de facto authorities in Yemen have implemented to pressure Israel and its allies into ceasing the genocidal onslaught in Gaza.

At a press briefing on Monday, Principal Deputy State Department Spokesperson Vedant Patel uttered a now-familiar Biden administration line when asked if the war would escalate to involve United States boots on the ground.

"First, as it relates to the Houthis, the United States is not interested in any escalation, but it is never acceptable for malign actors to target international vessels, to target legitimate commerce that is flowing through the Red Sea," Patel said. "We are talking about international waters that allow 30 percent of global container shipping to flow through those waters - 15 percent of seaborne trade. This is a waterway that is vital. And we will always take appropriate steps to hold those accountable that put things like legitimate commerce, civilians, United States personnel, in harms way."

Ever since the Biden administration began bombing Yemen, its official spinmeisters have been babbling about commerce and global container shipping to justify it. The unspoken premise behind this justification is that an active genocide should be permitted to continue with zero economic repercussions of any kind, for Israel or anyone else.

It is just taken as a given by empire managers and their defenders that the money must keep flowing and the gears of capitalism must keep turning at the same rate they were turning before Israel began massacring tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, if not faster. That the horrors being unleashed in Gaza should have no material impact on the rest of the world whatsoever.

The empire will permit you to think thoughts and feel feelings about the butchery in Gaza quietly in the privacy of your own head, and under the right circumstances it will even permit you to attend pro-Palestine demonstrations and share your opinions on social media. But as soon as it comes to physically interfering with the gears of the imperial machine, they will blow your guts out.

This is of course absurd. The horrors in Gaza should be affecting the whole world.

Our lives should not be proceeding normally, and it is freakish and obscene that they do.

It is a sign of a profoundly sick civilization that so many of us in the west are able to lose ourselves in idle entertainment and laugh and stuff our faces with snacks and go out on the town while the nightmare in Gaza continues to unfold.

Gaza should be stopping us in our tracks.

Hell we should be disrupting the economy ourselves - we should not have to wait for impoverished Yemenis to do it for us.

We should be holding general strikes and stopping ships and disrupting everything we can possibly disrupt in order to force western civilization to look at what it is supporting in Gaza and bring this mass atrocity to a screeching halt.

Instead we are just sleepwalking through life like we always do while people in the poorest nation in the middle east bravely fight our battle for us.

When you see how effective the Houthis have been at using Yemens critical location to shut down Red Sea traffic, you understand why the United States spent years backing a horrific genocidal military campaign trying to get rid of them.-Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) December 21, 2023

The empire is not entitled to expect that all commerce keep flowing normally during an active genocide.

Israel is not entitled to have zero consequences for its actions, and its trading partners are not entitled to be unaffected by those consequences.

The idea that it is normal and appropriate to use any and all measures to prevent Israels atrocities from having any material impact on commerce - up to and including starting a new United States of American war is self-evidently ridiculous.

It has been an incredibly draining past 100 days for those of us who have been following events in Gaza.

There have been days when I could not believe the sun dared to shine.

The premise that there should not even be a slight economic downturn as a result of this madness, and that it is fine to start a war to make sure there is not, deserves to be dismissed with extreme disdain.

We live in a dystopian world where it is completely normalized to subvert human interests to commercial interests, to toss tens of thousands of lives into the incinerator for wealth and convenience.

Where war profiteers rake in vast fortunes for selling instruments of mass murder to genocidal governments, and where the most powerful empire in history declares a war to defend shipping containers at the cost of human life.

Do not ever let these sick freaks convince you that this is normal!

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