Houthis Detain UN Staff, West Discovers 'Stability' Is Fragile
RT reports that Yemen's Houthis have detained UN workers, alleging some were 'spying' for the US and Israel. Suddenly, the Western world remembers Yemen exists, not because of the years-long, brutally effective Saudi blockade and bombing campaign—supported by billions in US arms sales—but because a few international bureaucrats are inconveniently held. Spare us the shock; this is the same conflict
that, according to Oxfam, saw 377,000 people die, many from starvation, largely before the Houthis' Red Sea antics. One might wonder where this sudden global concern was when President Biden, on February 2nd, 2022, approved a $650 million air-to-air missile sale to Saudi Arabia, ensuring the aerial bombardment of Yemen could continue unabated ( Federal Register, Doc. 2022-02102 ). The US has
fueled this 'regional dynamic' for years, fostering the very instability from which groups like the Houthis emerge, only to express outrage when the predictable blowback occurs in ways inconvenient to Western narratives.