Michigan certified its vote results for Biden, and now crucially Emily Murphey at the GSA has agreed and now recognized officially that at least Joe Biden should be allowed to transition properly as has always happened in the past normally.
But in his lame duckery, still denying his obvious loss, Donald Trump is trashing everything in sight. Very serious matters of foreign policy are part of this. One of these has been discussed in comments here previously, the removal from the Open Skies Treaty, which right now I am watching Rachel Maddow report that DOD is destroying the planes US used for this. Ack!!!
But for this post I am noting another awful thing they are doing along a bunch of others. This involves Yemen, long one of the worst humanitarian disasters on the planet, horrible, but so in place for so long that most people pay no attention anymore because, bore, been there done that snore. But it continues to be a place of ongoing civilian deaths from bombs and economic deprivation.
So, just to make things “better,” the Trump admin has decided to declare that the Houthi group who rule not only most of northern Yemen, but also its capital, Sana’a, to be officially a “terrorist group.” The immediate result of this ruling is that all kinds of humanitarian aid that has been going to people in the parts of Yemen they live in will no longer receive it. This is morally awful and just plain stupid.
So this is part of Trump frustrated in his anti-Iran policy. He exited the Iran nuclear treaty, leading to a massive increase in enriched uranium there. Ooops! He killed a top general from there to stop attacks on US forces in Iraq by Iranian militias. But those continue, with more political support in Iraq. Duh.
Alexis Goldstein has pulled together a number of facets of the Trump team’s scorched earth policy in an article at Truthout:
Trump Is Trying to Set Yellen and Biden Up to Fail as He Sabotages the Economy
Rjs,
I looked, but was not overwhelmed or even a little surprised. Almost small potatoes compared to the damage already done by the UFOSOB that became POTUS. My favorite stupid was when UFOSOB POTUS pulled out the monitoring program for infectious disease monitoring in SE Asia back in 2018 that had been put in place by GHW Bush and maintained by every subsequent POTUS until Trump. My biggest problem understanding Trump is how to separate the stupidity from the treachery, treason if you will.
BTW, the “U” is for Useless and the first “O” is for Orange. I guess that you got the rest.
BTW, despite my opinion of Trump himself, then I still do not despise those that voted for him. People are easily conned. A lot of them are my relatives, in-laws at least. They are not too bright. Whether the ignorance is willful or environmental is too complicated a distinction to bother with because it still would not illuminate what we must do going forwards.
now we know what Pompeo was doing in Israel; sabotaging Biden’s intention to reopen the Iran nuclear Treaty….Dr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the scientist at the head of Iran’s nuclear program, was assassinated last night in Tehran…