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Saudi Arabia Acknowledges Defeat In Yemen - Starts To Sue For Peace

Two weeks ago we wrote that war on Yemen will soon end. The Saudis lost their ally, they lost the war and would have to sue for peace. They are now doing so. But they fighting in Yemen will continue until that country finds a new balance.

Today the United Arab Emirates airforce bombed the Yemeni proxy forces of its 'ally' Saudi Arabia:

Yemen's internationally recognized government accused the Emirati air force of attacking its troops Thursday as they were heading to the key southern port city of Aden to fight separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates. The airstrikes killed at least 30 government forces, a Yemeni commander said.
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Col. Mohamed al-Oban, a commander of the government's special forces in Abyan province, said the troops were on the road, headed from Abyan toward Aden on Thursday, when the strikes took place, killing at least 30.
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At least six raids were carried out by Emirati warplanes around the temporary capital, according to government military sources who asked to remain anonymous.

Since 2015 the coalition of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, with U.S. and British help, waged war against the Houthi in northern Yemen. The coalition is now falling apart. Both countries claimed to fight against the Houthi, which control the capital Sanaa, in support of the internationally recognized 'legitimate' government under 'President' Hadi. But both countries had from the very beginning more egoistic war aims

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The Saudis must end the war against the Houthi that was launched at the behest of its clown prince. The war cost the Saudis an enormous amount of money even as they are still losing it. Only yesterday 25 of their forces were killed in a Houthi ambush. With the help of Iran the Houthi acquired long range missiles and drones and they now use them in volleys that reach deep into the Saudi's land:

Beginning on Aug. 24, the Houthis said its forces conducted two drone strikes on the King Khaled airbase in Khamis Mushayt and the Abha airport in southern Saudi Arabia. A day later, another round of drone strikes were reported on both targets.

On the same day, ten Badr-1 ballistic missiles were reportedly fired into Saudi’s Jizan city. However, Saudi officials reported that the country’s air defense systems shot down six ballistic missiles. The officials did not confirm if more missiles were included in the barrage.

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The Saudi king must have recognized that he has no longer any chance to ever win the war. It seems that he asked the Trump administration to work out an agreement with the Houthi:

The Trump administration is preparing to initiate negotiations with Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in an effort to bring the four-year civil war in Yemen to an end, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

The effort is reportedly aimed at convincing Saudi Arabia to take part in secret talks with the rebels in Oman to help broker a cease-fire in the conflict, which has emerged as a front line in the regional proxy war between Riyadh and Tehran.

The brother of the clown prince came to Washington to prepare for the talks:

Prince Khalid met with Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Wednesday and discussed “U.S. support for a negotiated resolution between the Republic of Yemen government” and a breakaway group known as the Southern Transitional Council, according to a statement from State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus.

The Hadi government is irrelevant. The Southern Transitional Council will demand independence from the north. The Houthi will demand to control the north and reparations for the war the Saudis waged against them. North Yemen's infrastructure is largely destroyed. It will cost several dozens of billions to rebuild what the five year long Saudi air war destroyed. As the Houthi can continue to harass the Saudis at will, even in their capital, their is no way out for the Saudis but to pay whatever the Houthi demand.

It was the clown prince Mohammad bin Salman who launched the war in Yemen soon after he came to power. It was supposed to defeat the Houthi within a few weeks. Five years later and after at least a $100 billions was spent on it, the Saudis lost the war.

Hopefully I will live long enough to see every f'cking war criminal brought to justice for all the death and destruction they have caused in countless countries including this one!

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Alligator Ed's picture

many lives are still on the line. As long as there is no ceasefire, people die. Why? What did KSA get out of this ugly mess? Can anyone tell me they thought backing the "official" government, composed of Saudi stooges, was going to benefit KSA how?

It's been an ugly mess, added and abetted by Obummer and continued by Drumpf.

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@Alligator Ed

So it's best to read at its source. But they wanted to control the oil of course. This is one reason we invaded Syria according to Kerry. He told congress that the Saudis were paying us lots of money to overthrow Assad because they wanted to build a pipeline. I don't know why our f'cking government thinks it's okay to throw our troops into every meat grinder for other countries. The Saudis and Israel have their own troops who can die for their country instead of ours, but they stay nicely tucked away in their country while ours go do the fighting and dying. And then they come home with PTSD cuz they did things that humans aren't supposed to do.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

@Alligator Ed What the Saudis thought they got out of the war is dominance in their decades-old rivalry with Iran over who is the big guy in the middle east, or for some segments of Saudi leadership over their centuries-old rivalry with Iran over which is the heretic.

And regaling the stable genius with some ceremonies and a glowing orb was enough to convince him that the enemy of his enemy Iran was his friend.

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@sny

read the rest of b's combined essays. this is key as well, imo:

'The UAE was smart to pull out of Yemen during the last months. Its war aim was to gain control of the port of Aden. Its alliance with southern Yemen separatist who now control the city guarantees that. How long they will be able to hold on to it when Khamenei rejects a division of Yemen remains to be seen.

Today's attack has an even larger dimension than marking the end of the war on Yemen. That Iran supplied drones with 1,500 kilometer reach to its allies in Yemen means that its allies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have access to similar means.

Israel and Turkey will have to take that into consideration. U.S. bases along the Persian Gulf and in Afghanistan must likewise watch out. Iran has not only ballistic missiles to attack those bases but also drones against which U.S. missile and air defense systems are more or less useless. Only the UAE, which bought Russian Pantsir S-1 air defense systems on German MAN truck chassis(!), has some capabilities to take those drones down. The Pentagon would probably love to buy some of these.'

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The Trump administration is preparing to initiate negotiations with Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in an effort to bring the four-year civil war in Yemen to an end, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Peace Talks Round 1:

Peace Talks Round 2:

And why is the US stepping in like KSA's older brother in the first place anyway?

MbS picked this fight. What does Trump hope to gain by owning the clown prince's defeat?

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

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Hopefully I will live long enough to see every f'cking war criminal brought to justice for all the death and destruction they have caused in countless countries including this one!

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

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@The Liberal Moonbat
sigh. otherwise it would be a dream come through...
in the words of Jimmy Dore, not every vagina will do, and I say not every moustache will make it.

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hopeful1's picture

@The Liberal Moonbat The final speech you posted

from The Great Dictator couldn't be better.

Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power.
But they lie!
They do not fulfil that promise.
They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!
Now let us fight to fulfil that promise!
Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers!
in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

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Do not let the plutocrats divide us!

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The more I read about this quagmire, the more disgusted I get with every internal warring force (and the number of factions seems to keep growing just like it did it Syria) and all the imperialist forces including but certainly not limited to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran and the US. And Russia seems to be getting involved vis-a-vis the UAE (although the US has it's fingers in there, too). Which side(s) is Israel sending money and weaponry to?

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@Wally

fwiw is 'there are invited guys', and 'not invited guys'.

but as far as the sauds and irael: they share a common enemy: iran. you do the math. pompeo as as a peace negotiator? so he can say houthis broke any cease-fire that may come into play? just as the western hegemon always blamed the break-away regions in the donbass (and putin himself) for breaking the minsk agreements in ukraine.

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@wendy davis

There are three internal military forces vying for political control and territory.

The Hadi gubmint at this point looks like it's kaput if the Saudis abandon it but will they?

It doesn't look like the UAE have "backed out" of Yemen if they staged airstrikes against Hadi troops in support of the southern seperatists just yesterday.

You have the UAE backed southern seperatists now in control of Aden while the Houthi's (backed by Iran and Hezbollah) control the former(?) capital in the north. But Hadi's forces are already trying to stage an attack to retake Aden.

https://news.yahoo.com/yemen-colonel-airstrikes-kill-least-094449002.html

Then it may be true as you quote from that other article that "Iran has not only ballistic missiles to attack those (US)bases (in ther Persian Gulf and Afghanistan) but also drones against which U.S. missile and air defense systems are more or less useless."

Well, I don't think that Iran would be quite so suicidal as to do that, do you?

And about the concluding citation: "Only the UAE, which bought Russian Pantsir S-1 air defense systems on German MAN truck chassis(!), has some capabilities to take those drones down. The Pentagon would probably love to buy some of these.'

Well, the U.S. doesn't have terribly strained relations with the UAE. Money talks:

https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-united-arab-emirates/

Stay tuned. Is it time for a two state solution? Will Iran allow this to happen?

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The Saudis should talk to Egypt.

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