US-Backed Allies Stranding Tourists? Priceless.
Al-Monitor reports that hundreds of tourists are stranded on Yemen's remote Socotra island after the UAE withdrew troops, escalating a rift with Saudi Arabia, leaving flights grounded. The irony? These 'allies,' both heavily backed by astronomical US military aid and diplomatic cover, have now turned their proxy war on each other, weaponizing air traffic control as easily as they weaponized
starvation. This isn't just about stranded vacationers; it's a stark illustration of how US-enabled interventions inevitably metastasize into regional chaos. While US politicians lament humanitarian crises from Riyadh's bombing campaigns (funded by your tax dollars), they conveniently overlook how Saudi Arabia and the UAE's destabilizing actions, nurtured by billions in arms sales, directly lead
to this kind of absurd, yet tragic, fallout. One might wonder, how many civilian lives (or tourist itineraries) must be sacrificed before Washington acknowledges its allies aren't always 'partners for peace'?