Bloomberg Discovers Intra-Imperialist Squabbles in Yemen, Calls it 'Crisis Point'
📰 THE STORY: Bloomberg reports on rising tensions between Saudi Arabia and the UAE in Yemen, characterizing it as a rivalry that has reached a 'crisis point' within a long-standing, stable relationship, affecting their joint intervention in the war-torn country. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The Saudi-led coalition, which includes the UAE, launched its brutal intervention
in Yemen in March 2015, plunging what was already the Arab world's poorest nation into what the UN called the world's worst humanitarian crisis. This intervention, backed to the hilt by Western powers, especially the US and UK, escalated a civil conflict into a regional proxy war, leading to an estimated 377,000 deaths by the end of 2021, primarily from indirect causes like starvation and
preventable diseases due to blockades and infrastructure destruction. Double Standard: Western media routinely describes Yemen as a 'civil war' or 'proxy war,' obscuring the active role of Western governments in arming and enabling the Saudi-UAE coalition. The billions in arms sales to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, as documented by SIPRI, are rarely interrogated as direct complicity. When civilian
infrastructure is bombed by forces armed by the West, it's 'collateral damage'; when similar actions occur in countries demonized by the West, it's a 'war crime' or 'atrocity.' The narrative here conveniently abstracts the primary imperial actors – the US, UK, France – out of the frame. Follow the Money: The 'tension' between Saudi Arabia and the UAE is dwarfed by the massive profits reaped by