Former president and likely Republican presidential-nominee Donald Trump is now, finally, a convicted felon. So, with the corporate media forcing all eyes on Trump’s conviction, what better time for Butcher Biden to rack up some war crimes? Because, not to be outdone, as the Trump news dropped, Genocide Joe was busy bombing the hell out of Yemen.
Naturally, the US’s imperial lackey the UK jumped in on the colonial chest-thumping, to prop up their genocidal axis of evil with Israel in the Middle East.
Bombing Yemen as Trump found guilty
On Thursday 30 May, a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 charges of election fraud. As Reuters reported, the former president had falsified:
documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.
That very same day however, the US and UK rained bombs down on Yemen in the middle of the night:
BREAKING:
US and British warplanes are currently dropping bombs on Yemen in the middle of the night, targeting 13 different locations, including telecommunications infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/4PXNjJFRyp
— sarah (@sahouraxo) May 30, 2024
The US and UK military claimed to have targeted thirteen locations where they had identified buildings:
housing drone ground control facilities and providing storage for very long range drones, as well as surface to air weapons
To many, the uncanny timing, with Trump’s conviction swallowing up the media’s attention, was glaringly obvious:
While the world is distracted by #Trump With every distraction there is a consequence 👇👇👇👇👇👇 #CeaseFire #Yemen #USA #UK https://t.co/HzDnV8MYCh
— Julie (@dimandjules) May 30, 2024
Was this timed for the Trump trial verdicts? https://t.co/fsj59M0yAz
— Hieronymous B¡tch 🍉✊🏻 (@taylersplifft) May 30, 2024
Seems relevant that this happened right as Trump’s verdict was being read. Almost like they didn’t want people to notice. https://t.co/8KPKTL1Q8z
— craven_carpenter (@CravenCarpenter) May 31, 2024
While the public’s attention is diverted by Trump’s felony charges, the military-industrial complex seizes this opportunity to bomb Yemen, one of the poorest nations on Earth. https://t.co/CE9pnfSZkC
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) May 30, 2024
War criminals all round
Consequently, an orange jumpsuit might match Trump’s complexion, but he’s not the only one who’d wear it well:
Biden, Trump, and Obama all bombed Yemen.
All three are criminals. https://t.co/e8KwXxM12q pic.twitter.com/VVFUy3HfjV
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) May 30, 2024
Because of course, Trump too committed atrocious war crimes against people in Yemen:
the craziest part about Trump’s conviction is it wasn’t for his war crimes in Yemen, because that would implicate Obama who started the genocidal campaign, and Biden who’s continuing it by bombing Yemen right now: https://t.co/8MDe88zbAD
— dilan (@dpgcook) May 30, 2024
Essentially then, courts have convicted Trump for hush money to a porn star, but blatant murderous war crimes? Nah. Naturally, this suits Butcher Biden and his drone-strike-happy presidential predecessor Barrack Obama down to the ground.
What’s more, that barely scratches the surface of US and UK war crime complicity. Even now, the duopoly of dying colonial empires are abetting war criminal Netanyahu in his brutal ethnic extermination of Palestinians. I’m old enough to remember when Israel used US-made munitions to burn 45 Gazans to death in a Rafah refugee camp.
Unsurprisingly, the pair are gearing up to obstruct Netanyahu’s arrest after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for it. As the Canary’s James Wright wrote:
In other words, Western leaders are arguing that international law does not apply to the West or its allies.
To date, evidently so.
Election season: nationalistic imperialism on steroids
Rancid displays of toxic imperialism? Now election season really is in full swing:
Election season in England and the US is very dangerous because it’s time to show you are strong on “national security” by bombing the hell out of other countries. https://t.co/LS39q8YKME
— Abdullahi Halakhe (@QulshTM) May 30, 2024
In short, buckle up for a self-aggrandising spiel of jingoistic imperial impulses from small men in suits for the next six months. Right on cue, here’s Sunak cracking out the ol’ “self defence” chestnut:
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says there would have been “a risk in inaction”, following strikes by British and US forces on Houthi targets in Yemenhttps://t.co/EALLoArJMf
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/yaxsLDUjmo
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 31, 2024
Of course, for the chef’s kiss of timing – parliament – you know, that institution of elected representatives meant for holding government to account, is now dissolved. Naturally, this was the same day Sunak was getting in bed with Butcher Biden to rain terror and death down on people in Yemen:
While Parliament is dissolved and we are all focusing on the election, British fighter jets are bombing telecommunications and other infrastructure in Yemen.
Yemen is one of the most impoverished countries in the world, with basic infrastructure damaged by over a decade of war. pic.twitter.com/gJPIpgFY2q
— Philip Proudfoot (@PhilipProudfoot) May 30, 2024
Some on X highlighted the attack on Yemen in the context of Sunak’s gross theatre of nationalistic pride-come-election stunt:
Now you know why @RishiSunak wants National Service. Needs fodder . Yemen. Ukraine. Israhell . FK this country right now https://t.co/FY8q9zBYpP
— Chez_Em (@Chez_Em) May 31, 2024
Bombing Yemen to propping up Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Ultimately however, despite Biden and Sunak’s best PR obfuscation tactics, the reasons for their criminal bombardment didn’t escape peoples’ notice. Specifically: sustaining Israel’s genocide in Gaza:
BREAKING: Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak are bombing Sanaa, Yemen, as we speak.
They are bombing one of the poorest countries in the world, in the dead of night, to ensure Israel can continue committing massacres against children in Rafah. pic.twitter.com/PD5dvQJRSj
— sarah (@sahouraxo) May 30, 2024
Because despite the bullshit pretexts, at the heart of this is Palestine. Notably, the US and UK airstrikes are retaliation to Yemen blockading Israel-bound vessels fueling its genocide:
In case you’re just tuning in, this is happening because Yemen is blocking cargo ships bound for Israel in an attempt to stop the Gaza genocide and the US and UK are attacking them so the genocide can continue https://t.co/EQvdeaxIQ7
— Dezionize the US 🏴☠️🇵🇸🔻 (@aimeemarie1988) May 30, 2024
Another poster highlighted the appalling racist double-standards at play in the Western corporate media and political establishment:
White imperialist governments continuously bombing cities and countries in the Middle East, yet we’re labelled the terrorists for resisting and fighting back. I’m so fkn sick of this narrative that we have forced on us, when every other day, white countries continuously bomb us. https://t.co/adjUyI3lzu
— 🇱🇧 (@wiIdthouqhts) May 30, 2024
At the end of the day, the US and UK can talk big on international law, but the majority world knows, the Zionist apologist war-mongers, with ally Israel, are the biggest war criminals going.
Feature image via the White House/Wikimedia, in the public domain
