The United States and Britain launched dozens of military strikes on Yemen on Thursday, raising fears of an escalation of conflict in the region. The strikes, launched in response to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea that have disrupted global trade, left at least five people dead. The Houthi movement began targeting ships in November “essentially using a naval blockade in the Red Sea to prevent the blockade against civilians in Gaza,” according to our guest, Yemeni American scholar Shireen Al-Adeimi. “This is an offensive act. This is a breach of Yemeni sovereignty,” she says about the U.S. coalition’s strikes, which were launched without approval from Congress, and which Al-Adeimi additionally characterizes as “a defense of capitalism.”
Communist Russia and China were both vastly more financially more stable and wealthy than the feudal failed states they replaced - the exact opposite of collapsing into financial ruin. The life expectancy also increased by multiple decades under Mao and Stalin, so again, the opposite of
‘the deaths of millions’.
Communist Russia and China were both vastly more financially more stable and wealthy than the feudal failed states they replaced - the exact opposite of collapsing into financial ruin. The life expectancy also increased by multiple decades under Mao and Stalin, so again, the opposite of ‘the deaths of millions’.