Saudi Arabia 'Secures' Yemen, Eight Years of Bombing Later
When Al Jazeera breathlessly reports the UAE is 'welcoming Saudi efforts to support security in Yemen,' one might ponder which 'security' they mean. The kind that comes after a Saudi-led coalition, with robust Western backing, spent eight years devastating the country, creating one of the world's worst humanitarian crises? (According to the UN, over 377,000 deaths by 2021, and 4.5 million
internally displaced.) The 'separatists' Saudi Arabia is now 'telling to withdraw' are the Southern Transitional Council (STC)—a group that has received significant support and arms from Saudi Arabia's coalition partner, the UAE. It's almost as if the architects of the problem are now graciously offering to 'fix' it from within the chaos they engineered. This isn't 'security efforts'; it’s an
imperial cleanup crew trying to rearrange the bombed-out furniture in a house they themselves set on fire. The only thing genuinely 'supported' here is Riyadh and Abu Dhabi's ongoing proxy conflict, dressed up as benevolent intervention. How many times can you break a country before you're allowed to play peacekeeper?