Saudi puppet in Yemen is getting chased out of the country

Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:06am

Well that escalated fast.
Sunday I wrote how UAE proxy forces had turned on Saudi proxy forces in Yemen.
Today we are entering a whole new era in Yemen.

Fighters from the armed wing of a political movement demanding secession for southern Yemen have surrounded the presidential palace in the government’s de facto capital of Aden after three days of intense fighting.
The prime minister, Ahmed bin Daghr, and a number of senior government figures were holed up in the palace on Tuesday and were preparing to flee to Saudi Arabia, officials said. The Southern Resistance forces (SRF) have also captured the main barracks of troops loyal to President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who already resides in Riyadh.
At least 36 people have been killed and 185 wounded in clashes in Aden since Sunday, when another front was opened in Yemen’s devastating conflict.
“The separatists have surrounded the palace and now control the main gate. Those inside are unofficially under house arrest at this point,” a high-ranking officer in the Yemeni army told Agence France-Presse.

Now you might think that UAE would be happy about this. In fact, events are spinning out of control for both KSA and UAE.

In recent days, leaders in the UAE have called on the STC to accept a ceasefire, but their plea has been ignored.
...In addition, 14 soldiers were killed on Tuesday in a suicide attack by suspected Islamist extremists in southern Yemen, a senior military official said. The bomb struck a checkpoint manned by UAE-trained forces in Ataq, capital of the oil-rich province of Shabwa. Islamist networks, including al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula and Islamic State, have exploited the war to expand their presence in southern Yemen.

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Submitted by DonMidwest on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 1:05pm

Don't you know that it was the civilian leadership in the US that caused us to loose the war?

Don't you know that the new fanged COIN -counter insurgency strategy that Gen Pretraus used to ride to fame and be one of the respected, if not the most respected voice on military matters?

Well, this article from a couple of days ago places the military strategy in a dialogue with Vietnam.

They are stuck. And now with military operatives in something like 130 countries, and even more money to the military, and Trump may have already killed as many civilians by drones as Obama did in 8 years, not sure when there will be a reckoning.

Article on Tomdispatch.com with an intro by Tom

Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Wrong on Nam, Wrong on Terror

My go to book on Vietnam is the one a few years ago by Nick Turse "Kill Anything that Moves." US genocide in Vietnam and ecocide on the soil.

A review of the book by the important journalist during that war, Jonathan Schell, published in 2014

At Last: The Real Story of the Vietnam War New book proves murder, rape and torture were not the exception in Vietnam, they were the norm.

For half a century we have been arguing about “the Vietnam War.” Is it possible that we didn’t know what we were talking about? After all that has been written (some 30,000 books and counting), it scarcely seems possible, but such, it turns out, has literally been the case.

Now, in Kill Anything that Moves, Nick Turse has for the first time put together a comprehensive picture, written with mastery and dignity, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam. The findings disclose an almost unspeakable truth. Meticulously piecing together newly released classified information, court-martial records, Pentagon reports, and firsthand interviews in Vietnam and the United States, as well as contemporaneous press accounts and secondary literature, Turse discovers that episodes of devastation, murder, massacre, rape, and torture once considered isolated atrocities were in fact the norm, adding up to a continuous stream of atrocity, unfolding, year after year, throughout that country.

The first article above describes the military hands around books to read. I am sure that they don't hand out Nick's book.

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Submitted by dance you monster on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 1:08pm
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. . . the makers of the Guardian graphic you post don't appear to know where Yemen is. Kinda symptomatic of the West's foreign policy, perhaps.

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 1:25pm

@dance you monster
I didn't notice. Now that's funny!

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Submitted by lotlizard on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 1:30pm
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@dance you monster

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