Yemen: Another Proxy War Where US Backs All Sides
Al-Monitor highlights the 'growing rift' between UAE-backed separatists and Saudi-aligned forces in Hadramout, ostensibly 'nominal allies against the Houthis.' How quaint. What they gloss over is the brutal eight-year Saudi-led intervention, launched with explicit US logistical and intelligence support under multiple administrations. The US has continued to approve massive arms sales to both Saudi
Arabia (like the $650 million air-to-air missile deal in 2021) and the UAE, even as these 'allies' carve up Yemen, turning a civil conflict into a regional proxy war and humanitarian catastrophe that has killed hundreds of thousands, according to the UN. It’s a peculiar kind of ‘alliance’ where Washington bankrolls both sides of an internal squabble within its 'partners,' all while ignoring the
devastating human cost. When will these outlets connect the dots between the advanced weaponry decimating Yemen and the countries supplying it? Or is the 'rift' more palatable than dissecting the entire, bloody, US-enabled enterprise?