Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Children in Yemen Are So Hungry They’re Eating Their Own Hands" video.

  1. These guys have money to feed themselves but not their own children too........
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  2. Most of the stuff is localized and has nothing to do with the main Houthis-Hadi fighting. I saw one piece on an "insane asylum" that has all the marks of a clandestine jail.
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  3. You want the US to seize the port cities and use our charity to lift most of the symptoms? That's ok, just note we'd be effectively at war with both sides.
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  4. None of the adults look hungry. And if they were starving I'm sure the men would either surrender or commit to an all out attack.
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  5.  @yamaniking9292  look, another internet expert berating everyone. 100 to 1 says you don't even know who Saleh is.
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  6. Really? I saw all the men and women yelling about how someone else should end the war for them. You can't blame shift genders when they're all guilty.
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  7.  @epicfail5473  pretty standard crybullying and hypocrisy for the region. Protesting and eating while their kids starve.
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  8. Soldiers suffer more, but people only care about them when they're on "our side."
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  9. That's frankly irrelevant and reeks of ulterior motives. If you want us to end this issue, we'll show up with soldiers and charities and missionaries and dictate peace from Sanaa. But if you want my opinion, most of the people in this video aren't worth saving.
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  10.  @jamtaco2667  VICE does a lot more than just the occasional editorials. In fact it seems each reporter can publish what they want unedited.
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  11.  @looseygoosey1349  yes, but the Houthis, the Iranians, and tin foil hat crowd openly don't care about that.
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  12. What do want us to do? Take over?
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  13. Strange thing to say on an MSM video.
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  14. Of course the soldiers are complaining about civilian suffering from a blockade aimed at starving and army of bullets... Whilst not trying to lift the blockade... but whatever. That's par for the course in that part of the world.
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  15.  @jamtaco2667  you really shouldn't be playing the blame game or make policy recommendations with Yemen if you don't even know basic facts about how the war started and progressed.
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  16.  @yamaniking9292  yeah. Now bug off, liar.
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  17. Not really. Most of the guns are black market and/or stolen from the former Yemeni army and the foreign armies bring their own weapons. The only people who know how to use their guns are armies with western allies, and even then infighting and incompetence causes most offensives to break down into static warfare like you see here.
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  18.  @goddammitboi  don't pretend you don't know what I'm saying. I'm saying a lot of these parents are feeding themselves first and letting others have the scraps. If they they all were that hungry, they wouldn't be protesting but instead would bomb rush port cities (hungry men are always brave).
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  19.  @SebHu711  be serious. Don't pretend you don't know what a lot of these fools are up to.
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  20. Is that sarcasm? Most towns are owned by gangs and the factions they affiliate with have officious titles but have as much real power as cartels. Where police departments exist the crime statistics are only a reflection of how many political and personal enemies they dealt with (and/or how many people paid them to arrest someone else).
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  21. The Yemenis. All of them. Long story short, the rural parts of Yemen had relatively little government presence before the war and much of the country were loyal to tribes or local strongmen. Many of these in the northwestern part of the country had allied with the Egyptians during the last civil war in the 1960's. Gang wars were frequent but records are poor. At the top was Saleh, an abusive dictator. In a general revolt and mass defection, his deputy Hadi forced him to resign. This change did not satisfy many rebels, and Saleh vied for his job back. Allying with the Houthi cartel, a group seeking autonomy and/or independence, they launched an invasion of the capital Sanaa. They promptly turned on each other with Saleh killed in a street battle and most of his soldiers going neutral, or joining the Houthis, or even rejoining Hadi's forces. Hadi's government fled to Aden where it still is. The rest is mostly several foreign interventions at cross purposes that came piecemeal. A whole lot of major defections have occurred and most towns are not controlled by either side, with a few of them even declaring DAESH or al-Qaeda affiliations.
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  22. The UN is completely useless, and the wars they're credited with "ending" only occurred because all the belligerents were willing to settle on terms. And there's a lot more in Yemen besides a proxy war.
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