Yemen to UAE: Get Out. (After You Helped Us Bomb Ourselves.)
The news is in: Yemen's Houthi-aligned 'presidential council' (a body the UAE, among others, spent years trying to eliminate) has dramatically cancelled its 'defense deal' with the UAE, demanding a 24-hour exit. This, after years of a devastating Saudi-led coalition war, in which the UAE was a key participant, that has caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. The same UAE, by the way,
that reportedly funded southern separatist groups to weaken the very 'unity' this council now purports to represent. One might wonder if this 'cancellation' is less about sovereignty and more about shifting allegiances in a conflict conveniently labeled 'civil war' by those who fueled it. It's almost as if nation-states, after years of pulverizing a country and propping up warring factions, are
now surprised when their 'partnerships' end abruptly. The media, of course, frames it as a legitimate 'deal' being 'cancelled,' not a tactical withdrawal from a strategic quagmire by a foreign force that spent untold billions perpetuating it. How many times must foreign powers 'intervene' before we stop calling it 'defense' and start calling it what it is: imperial hubris with a body count?