The Saudis are about to lose their war in Yemen, and lose bad
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 04/27/2020 - 3:57pm
Three weeks ago Saudi Arabia was desperate for an exit door in Yemen.
The ceasefire is an indication that Riyadh may be preparing to end its involvement in the war and sue for peace...
By now it has become clear to Saudi Arabia and its allies that they cannot win the war in Yemen and that they urgently need an exit strategy.
The Houthis had been advancing since January.
Then things really started to fall apart for the Saudis.
The battle fronts along the Saudi-Yemeni border have witnessed a mutiny among Saudi-backed mercenaries fighting on behalf of exiled Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
The discontent is reportedly over Riyadh’s refusal to pay their salaries which have been unpaid for six months.
Then yesterday things got much worse for the Saudis.
The Aden-based Southern Transitional Council (STC) declared a state of emergency, saying it would govern the port city and other southern provinces.
Now the Saudis are in danger of getting kicked out of Yemen entirely.
On Sunday Aden residents reported heavy deployments of STC forces in the city and a separatist source told AFP news agency they had set up checkpoints "at all government facilities, including the central bank and port of Aden".Hussam Radman, a research fellow for the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies said the separatists were already in control of the military and security in Aden where they have popular support.
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What effect did the Houthi attack...
...on Saud oil refinery have in all this? Was that the tipping point?
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
That attack
could have been a tipping point. Or maybe the Sauds are going broke. I hope both are decisive factors.
MBS is certainly a genius! LOL
His escapade in Yemen with unlimited air power is failing against the rag tag Houthis is failing miserably. He assassinated a journalist in Turkey (with Trump's blessing). But he was not quite done yet. His most brilliant maneuver was flooding the oil market during the covid-19 pandemic causing a free fall in oil prices that his country depends on for its existence.
calling Kashoggi a journalist
is like calling Göbbels a journalist. Kashoggi's uncle was the world's largest arms dealer. His nephew, sliced and diced in Turkey, was no saint either. He wrote propaganda for the Muslim Brotherhood. Cut the euphemisms. Kashoggi and Göbbels belong in the same league. Don't forget, Josef G. wrote a children's book (Glücklich Kind). And while we are beatifying monsters, don't forget Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher of Czechoslovakia, played the violin expertly. Shall we equate him to Jascha Heifetz or Yitzhak Perlman? Oops. Juden!
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The STC ...
was founded by the UAE, who have their own colonial plans for South Yemen.
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?
The UAE have been
Very bad actors in the conflict - with US complicity - but withdrew the bulk of their forces last summer.
Interestingly, the UAE has maintained trade and relations with Iran throughout the conflict and seem to have been far better than the Saudi's in the treatment of their large Shiite population.
Nice to get some
genuinely good news here (or anywhere) on occasion - thanks for posting.
I hope that this heralds the fall
of the House of Saud.
It's been long overdue.
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