Name: Dave Smith Explains the War in Yemen
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dave Smith Explains the War in Yemen' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-02-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dave Smith Explains the War in Yemen' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-02-10. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience.
Well, let me ask you this like being a libertarian and reducing government is
what you're really interested in
So if that's the case, what are the things that get drastically reduced like
like besides the obvious ones like military and
What's what is what are the things that you feel there's a egregious misspending
or overspending on well?
I mean, okay, so right
I mean, I know you've said besides that but I'm still gonna just read number
one is is ending all of the wars
I mean, it's just been it's it's been does one disaster after another
Millions of innocent people have been killed as a result of the wars in the
last 20 years
We have nothing to show for them nothing as we should end every last one of
them and the biggest one the biggest one right now
Is what's going on in Yemen and there's talks that they're you talking about
Yemen again?
Yes, but you were on CE cup five years ago and literally there and no one
listened to me then and
Unfortunately, no one has yet and now they're talking about escalating it, but
it's the worst thing in the world
What is it explain what's going on so all right? So basically obama?
Started a war in Yemen, but I mean it's it was obama's
Government working with the Saudis to launch a war against the houthis in Yemen
and basically the back story to it is that obama
had really the Saudis were pissed off at our government and they're a big
trading partner in ours, but number one they were against the war in Iraq
That George W. Bush started because they kind of were the only ones who saw
obviously how this was gonna go and they were like
You know their big enemy is Iran and you were like well if you overthrow the
Sunni
Minority government in Iraq obviously the Shiites are gonna take power and then
Iran's gonna have all of this influence in the region
So you're just empowering our worst enemy so don't do this
But America wanted to do it Israel wanted to do it all of the neocons wanted to
do it
And so the war ended up happening and so the war happens it went exactly that
way
It was the bit it was a gift to Iran and then
Obama came in and he
You know made the deal with Iran that also really pissed off the Saudis so
Obama said and you can google this and you can find it
He said in order to placate the Saudis
He supported their war
Against the Houthis in Yemen, so we got involved in a war
Which has turned into a genocide to placate one of the most evil governments in
the world the Saudis so Obama
That's that's what Obama the man who won the Nobel Peace Prize gave us and said
that for besides
You know for funding bin ladenite Islamists in Libya and Syria and committing
literal treason
He should be tried for war crimes and literally spend the rest of his life in a
cage for what he did in Yemen literally launched a war of
Genocide to placate the Saudis is that really the only motivation for us
getting involved it's I mean
Yeah, they're basically that they're a big business partner of ours and we were
pissed off and we were worried about losing that
relationship in this war the United States is
part is what so basically well, okay, so it's really it's the Saudis and the UAE
Are really launching the war but it's always I mean it's the Saudis doing it
But with American weapons for the first like several years of the war we were
literally refueling their fighter pilots as they were doing it and they're
They're conducting the war in the most brutal egregious way
I mean they're bombing like they're bombing farms and they're bombing, you know,
and they put a full blockade around the country
Um, so there's there there was something at one point there was in the ballpark
of a million cases of cholera
I'm not sure if they were actually all cholera or there were some other
similar like infections that were but it's been
Hundreds of thousands of people who have died in in this war the UN said it was
the number one humanitarian crisis in the world and it's it's these are
you know
Infectious diseases that aren't that are targeting or you that that
disproportionately hit babies
I mean there's babies dying
Um and Yemen by the way before all of this was the poorest country in the
Middle East and they would put a full blockade around the country
And this has been going on forever Obama started it Trump continued it through
his entire presidency
Funded um, you know funded the Saudis even more than Obama had gave them even
more
You know weapons and Biden said he was gonna end it
And he said he was gonna end the war and there were some people I will say
Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul were both really great on
This in the Senate trying to bring awareness to this that we got to end this
this like this is a genocide at this point
um and
Biden said he was gonna end it and he didn't he backed off of that promise and
now I guess the Houthis launched a few attacks that hit
the the United
the UAE and
so
Now they're they're talking about escalating the war
Anyway, so that's the biggest that so it's what government should stop doing
that's like the biggest one to me is like cut the military budget
Drastically stop stop fighting stupid wars
Anyway on top of that I would say that the um we need to end
all corporate
Welfare can we stop before you sure that sure sure so what the the motivations
that they have for getting involved in wars that benefit Saudi Arabia are is it?
Negotiations in terms of like oil access is it negotiations in terms of like
control the region?
well is it like there's there's compromises in terms of like
They make these compromises in terms like we want to do this and you want to do
that
So we'll allow you to do this we do that and then we'll work together
so there's I
There's several really big like um financial incentives
Behind it um the number one
Saudi Arabia buys a tremendous amount of weapons
So there this is worth a lot of money for for weapons manufacturers
There's also the whole petrodollar thing where there it has been this agreement
for a long time that Saudi Arabia will peg their
Their oil to US dollars and only trade in dollars and this does a lot to keep
our currency afloat
That was the reason that was part of the reason why the the war with Iraq
happened right wasn't that didn't that have something to do with them taking
their money
Like taking the the weren't going to put their oil on the US dollar anymore
Supposedly Saddam Hussein around the year 2000
Had a plan to start trading oil, you know in gold and other assets and not
using dollars anymore
I've also seen people say that Gaddafi had had plans to be in on this
I don't know if that's if that's true or not. I do think it's interesting
I do know that very shortly after we got off the gold standard after Richard
Nixon put us on the gold stand took us off the gold standard
That we made this deal with Saudi Arabia in the 70s where they would only trade
oil for dollars
Which in some ways kind of replaced?
The the gold standard like look dollars aren't redeemable for gold anymore, but
they are redeemable for oil
And so you got some commodity kind of behind the money and that allows us to
print as much money as we want to
without
Suffering the consequences of it quite as drastically because there's still
some value to the money for other people we can export our dollar around the
world
I I'm sure there's other motivations that I don't know about that. You know
I don't know for sure what they are, but I do know that hundreds of thousands
of innocent people are being slaughtered over
These wars so whatever exactly the motivation is it ain't worth it and it's
also one more crazy
You know addition to all of this is that we're fighting on the side of Al Qaeda
Over there like Al Qaeda is fighting the Houthis
There's still a pretty sizable Al Qaeda presence in the Arabian Peninsula and
particularly in Yemen and they're the enemies of the Houthis
We're fighting on the side of Saudi Arabia and Al Qaeda against the Houthis
because they're on the because Iran kind of likes them
It's nuts and we need to just stop doing it and it's insane. Well our country's
falling apart
We're still trying to like remake the world
It's just is the idea though that the reason why they're making these concessions
to these other foreign countries is that ultimately does help America
In some sort of a way. Well, I mean, I'm sure they would like a CIA guy or
someone who's like involved in this sort of
International politics. Yes kind of explained not saying that you would agree
with them
But explain to you the the motivation or why that's it's beneficial to be
involved with these companies these countries rather well, yeah
I mean, I've heard I have talked to several of them and I've heard a lot of
their arguments by the way
There's also a lot of those guys who would agree with me on this or I would
agree with them
I should probably say more accurately
I mean, I'd highly recommend anybody who wants to know what's really going on
to listen to Colonel Douglas McGregor who is as
Smart and as
Decorated as as you could possibly be and he's the guy who really makes the
argument the best that we should be completely out of all of these wars is he
retired?
Yeah, I believe he is at this point. Yeah, I believe he is but he was actually
I believe he was McMaster's
Boss at one point but McMaster's, you know rose up
I guess the political stuff with it did a little bit better than him and he
ultimately became you know the guy and he didn't but
Also might be because of what they their views are on this stuff, but yeah
There are people who will make these arguments, but really usually the
arguments that you know
They come down to like well
I mean it's like the way the wars were sold
It's like well
We had to go into Iraq because of whatever weapons of mass destruction or we
had to go into Syria because Assad was killing all of his own people or we
Had to go into Libya because he was about to go genocidal or we had to go into
blabla Yemen
They don't really try to make this argument as much for it's just kind of like
it's never discussed
It's just there's just no there's no real strong defense. It's been going on.
So how many years now? It's like we're you were talking about
Eight years seven years maybe now
Yeah, and it's been and it's just and now they're talking about ramping it up
after Biden promised to end it