Al-Monitor Discovers Yemen in UAE's Backyard (Again)
While Al-Monitor details the UAE's 'strategy to counter political Islam' – a conveniently vague enemy – it manages to skip over the fact that the actual beneficiaries of this 'strategy' are often defense contractors and arms dealers. The UAE's military spending, enabled by billions in U.S. arms sales, doesn't just fund 'alliances' but fuels a brutal, years-long war in Yemen that has killed
hundreds of thousands, creating the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to the UN. But, you know, 'countering destabilizing threats' sounds so much better than 'prolonging a slaughter for regional dominance and weapons sales.' One might wonder if the 'spotlight' on this 'escalation' is less about genuinely questioning the cost in human lives and more about fine-tuning the narrative for
continued arms shipments. How many more 'factboxes' on regional power plays will it take before the media connects the dots between 'assertive foreign policies' and the piles of dead civilians and displaced families below them?