Rep. Ilhan Omar: “Our response to Putin’s immoral war shouldn’t be to strengthen our relationship with the Saudis, who are currently causing the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet in Yemen.”
But progressive members of Congress and anti-war commentators were quick to pan the idea of further deepening U.S. ties with Saudi Arabia, pointing to the years-long, catastrophic assault the kingdom has been waging on“Our response to Putin’s immoral war shouldn’t be to strengthen our relationship with the Saudis, who are currently causing the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet in Yemen,” U.S. Rep.
in a Twitter post late Sunday. “Yemenis might not matter to some geopolitically, but their humanity should. This is a wildly immoral act.”Sunday that a Biden trip to Saudi Arabia would be part of an attempt to “help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil.” “A hat-in-hand trip would illustrate the gravity of the global energy crisis driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,”continued. “Biden has chastised Saudi Arabia, and the CIA believes its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was involved in the dismemberment ofOur response to Putin’s immoral war shouldn’t be to strengthen our relationship with the Saudis who are currently causing the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet in Yemen.
Yemenis might not matter to some geopolitically but their humanity should. This is wildly immoral act.
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