Saudi Jets in Yemen: "Peace" Talks and Massed Troops
"Saudi jets prowl Yemen skies as ground forces mass in Hadramawt," reports The New Arab, detailing renewed Saudi pressure and troop deployments. This seemingly routine dispatch conveniently sidesteps the US-supported Saudi campaign that has, since 2015, created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. While the article notes a 'collapsed truce,' it fails to contextualize this within a
nine-year military intervention that killed hundreds of thousands, according to the UN, and pushed millions to the brink of starvation, all facilitated by billions in American arms sales. ($28 billion in US arms to Saudi Arabia from 2015-2022, per the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - SIPRI). Instead of "prowling," a more accurate term might be "loitering over a nation they've
systematically bombed into famine." The continued militarization, even after supposed 'peace talks,' underscores a cynical game where Western allies can devastate sovereign nations with impunity while the media offers polite euphemisms. One might wonder if the "peace" being discussed was merely a rebranding of occupation.