Yemen's 'Presidential Council' Remembers Its Sponsor Isn't Always the UAE
The news from Al Jazeera states Yemen's presidential council, firmly propped up by Saudi Arabia, has abruptly cancelled a UAE defense deal, demanding all Emirati-backed forces leave within 24 hours. This is framed as a sudden breakdown, rather than the predictable outcome of an intervention where the 'allies' have always had competing agendas—namely, control of Yemen's strategic ports and
resources, not its 'democracy.' The Saudi-led coalition, including the UAE, has bombed Yemen since 2015, plunging it into one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, a fact often sanitized as 'conflict' or 'civil war' by mainstream media. One might wonder if the Saudis simply took too long to realize their supposed partner was carving up territory for future influence. This isn't a principled
stand against foreign involvement, but a turf war playing out on the corpses of Yemeni civilians. How many 'allies' does it take to destroy a country before one 'cancels' another's 'defense deal'?