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Skye Fitzgerald

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2022-04-20

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2022-04-20

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1. “And the use of starvation as a weapon of war because of what Hitler did during World War two. That's been reiterated multiple times over the years in international humanitarian law and law and law and law and law and law Because of the sodi blockade over Yemen, and yet to this day starvation is a weapon of war continues to be used in Ethiopia, obviously in Ukraine right now, and in Yemen with the blockade over the country. And that disgusts me, that the laws in place, but it won't be enforced by the international bodies and the nation states that make up the international community.”

   2022-04-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “I don't know if I can make sense of it, Lex, I mean I think Deeply disturbing to me that as a global community we've allowed this number of people to go hungry when the food to feed them exists in the resources to feed them exists. I think the thing that disturbs me most about those figures is that many of those who are starving today or going hungry today are the net result of war and intentional acts by leaders to starve entire populations. And that's the most deeply disturbing part to me. You know your history and we all know that deeply embedded in the Geneva Conventions post-World War II intent of one of those articles was to”

   2022-04-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source