https://southfront.org/leaked-memo-shows-us-overlooked-mass-civilian-deaths-in-yemen-to-preserve-arms-sales/It paraphrases a WSJ article, but WSJ are hardcore faggots and I'm not paying a cent to read it.
Yeah, everyone who's not functionally retarded knows that the US is looking the other way as Saudi Arabia bombs funeral after funeral after market after school bus to somehow reinstate their puppet president as long as arms sales levels are maintained, but this is actual hard proof.
Most of the State Department’s military and area specialists urged Mr. Pompeo in the memo to reject certification “due to a lack of progress on mitigating civilian casualties.”
That included the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. Their recommendation was also backed by the legal advisers who took part in the policy review.
The only group that urged him to fully support the Saudi-led coalition was the Bureau of Legislative Affairs, which argued in the memo that “lack of certification will negatively impact pending arms transfers.”
The State Department’s legislative team said “failure to certify may also negatively impact future foreign military sales and direct commercial sales to the region.”
This is why he certified the arms transfer, stating that KSA's admission that
they had indeed bombed a school bus and killed 40 children was proof that they were working to reduce civilian casualties.
