GENOCIDE
Obama was the first president to support genocide. President trump followed suit, then Biden, and now trump again, however, trump is doubling down on making America explicitly complicit in Genocide. Obama really is the president who started the new terrible normalization in America, that is, the material support for genocide. Now it seems to be solidified as permanent business as usual. The United States is not a good people, collectively, today.
Even though Trump is exponentially worse than Obama or Biden I feel it’s important to make Obama supporters aware that Obama is also a war criminal worthy of rotting in prison till the end of his life. All Obama supporters are ardently against genocide. Unwittingly, all Obama supporters functionally support genocide.
After the horrors of World War II, the world gathered in Nuremberg to draw a red line: never again. The Genocide Convention defined it as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
For years, U.S. officials and much of the media have dodged this word when talking about Yemen. But what’s unfolded there since 2015—the bombing of hospitals, destruction of food supplies, systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure, and the weaponization of famine—fits uncomfortably well within the definitions set out after WWII. The Saudi-led coalition’s actions, made possible by American weapons, intelligence, and diplomatic cover, have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions pushed to the brink of starvation.
Human rights organizations have documented how airstrikes repeatedly hit civilian targets. The United Nations has called the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen the worst in the world. Legal experts, including some at prominent NGOs, argue there is a credible case for genocide. The intent is evidenced not only by the pattern of attacks, but by the deliberate destruction of food and water sources, knowing full well that civilians—especially children—would pay the ultimate price.
This isn’t just a tragedy; it’s policy. The Obama administration made the original call to support Saudi Arabia’s war effort, providing the arms and logistical support that made such devastation possible. Trump escalated the support, and Biden, despite campaign promises, has not fundamentally changed course. The U.S. government has used taxpayer money and American-made bombs to back a campaign that, by any honest reading of the Nuremberg precedents, should count as genocide.
Calling it by its true name isn’t about rhetorical flourish; it’s about moral clarity. When America’s public treasury is used to support actions that meet the criteria for genocide, it signals a collapse of the values we claim to stand for. Americans are mostly shielded from the images of starving children and ruined villages, but that does not absolve us of responsibility.
Genocide does not become less so because it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge. The facts are clear, the pattern is established, and the precedent is there. The only thing missing is the will to confront it honestly—and to demand that our leaders stop making genocide standard operating procedure in U.S. foreign policy.
Today there is an even larger scaled genocide happening in Gaza against the Palestinian people lead by Israel, funded by the United States taxpayers at the direction of current President Trump.
The military industrial complex that former president Eisenhower warned us about needs to be nationalized vs privatized so there are no more profit incentives for genocide, or war in general.
We the people need to show up in the primary season, before the general elections, and stop nominating ambitious politicians who take legal bribery from corporations such as the military industrial complex.