Al Jazeera Discovers Yemen has 'Competing Groups,' But Not Who Funded Them
Al Jazeera reports on the various factions controlling territory in Yemen, presenting a complex tapestry of 'competing groups' (Al Jazeera). What this tidy map fails to highlight is the monumental, nine-year Saudi-led coalition intervention, initiated in 2015 with explicit US logistical and intelligence support, and billions in arms sales from Western powers. This isn't just internal squabbling;
it's the direct result of a US-approved war that unleashed the world's worst humanitarian crisis. We're shown the symptoms, never the disease. The Houthis, consistently demonized by Western media, emerged from a resistance movement against Saudi and American influence, a detail often omitted. The narrative of 'local groups' conveniently erases the fingerprints of nations like Saudi Arabia and the
UAE, who have received over $120 billion in US arms sales since 2015 (Security Assistance Monitor), directly fueling this fragmentation. Are we still pretending this is a homegrown dispute, or is it simply less palatable to discuss the 'competing interests' of Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Washington in Yemeni territory?