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Originally Posted by Itse
The Yemen conflict is unfortunately kind of a perfect example of a conflict that's just not going to be in the news much.
1. It's complicated, a long story, and where do you even start.
Do you start at the start of the civil war in 2014, or the revolution of 2011, or the 2009 South Yemen insurgency, or the mostly concurrent 2004- Houthi insurgency, or 1994 Yemeni Civil war... You get the idea.
2. There's no good guys. Houthi movement is a little bit more democratic and "pro-people", but the words "death to America, curse to the jews, death to Israel" are right in their slogan so... The legal government on the other hand keeps committing war crimes by ruthlessly bombing refugees and other civilian targets. And of course Al-Qaeda is in the mix.
3. It's mostly boring, sporadic small scale warfare. Lots of pictures of suffering refugees, not a lot in the way of dramatic battles.
4. Larger implications are unclear. What would happen if one side or the other wins?
5. It's all about non-white non-Christians speaking an incomprehensible language. Let's face it, it's much harder for us to care about something like that.
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Exactly.
Sorry but the Houthis were just classified by the UN last week or the week before as a terrorist organization and have been launching bombs, drones, rockets etc. into Saudi Arabia and it’s border cities, towns and villages for about 6 years or so. Meanwhile they just launched a massive attack / explosion into Dubai / UAE about 6 weeks ago.
The Saudis, UAE, Kuwait, I think Lebanon and a few others are in a group called the Arab coalition. They support the UN backed and democratically elected government of Yemen. The Houthis started a wild violent uprising to regain their own country but essentially at the behest of Iran. Yemen is a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Yemen is a very complicated situation and it’s not easy whatsoever to just point and say “these are the good guys” and “these are the bad guys”. Sorry, it’s not that simple and there’s plenty of history and context lacking in these criticisms of why the west supports Saudi Arabia and its partners.
Sometimes geopolitics means partnering with groups that don’t align 100% with your views. That’s pretty much been geopolitics since the dawn of time.
What would the US or Canada do if there was a random group on the border just firing rockets and bombs into their country? You think they’d just sit back and take it? Come on now.