Saudi Arabia Demands Peace from Separatists, After Bombing Them
Saudi Arabia warned Saturday it would back Yemen's government and urged separatists to withdraw 'peacefully,' according to Al-Monitor. This 'peaceful' ultimatum arrived just a day after reported Saudi air strikes on those very separatist positions. It appears Riyadh's definition of de-escalation involves first bombing a region, then demanding civility, a strategic play perfected over years of
devastating its neighbor. The hypocrisy is thick enough to cut with a thousand-pound bomb. The same Saudi government, backed by billions in U.S. arms sales (see: Lockheed Martin's Q4 profits), has been orchestrating a multi-year war in Yemen. Now, they're playing the aggrieved humanitarian. How many 'peaceful withdrawals' are prefaced by bombing raids from a coalition that has created one of the
world's worst humanitarian crises?