Saudi 'Advances' Mean More US-Funded Bombs for Yemen
The New Arab dutifully notes 'Saudi-backed forces' are making 'advances' in Yemen's Hadramawt, capturing 'all military and civilian facilities' in Mukalla. A neat victory, framed as a local skirmish. What they skip is the essential detail: these 'Saudi-backed forces' are funded, supplied, and politically shielded by Washington. From 2015 to 2022, the US exported over $20 billion in weaponry to
Saudi Arabia, including F-15 fighter jets and bombs used extensively in Yemen. (Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI Arms Transfers Database). This isn't an 'advance'; it's a further entanglement in a war deliberately obscured from western audiences, a humanitarian catastrophe enabled by US tax dollars and political will. The media celebrates 'gains' for one side, but
never asks: at what civilian cost, and who profits from keeping this war machine running?