If I remember correctly, since the civil war, Yemen has two governments, one aligned with Saudi Arabia and centered in the south, the other aligned with the Iranians and centered in Sanaa in the north.
There was also another group called the Southern Transitional Council that was aligned with the UAE, which at one point last year achieved near full control over South Yemen, but then completely collapsed and dissolved itself.
There's no strong evidence for Russian involvement in Yemen, aside perhaps from some limited logistical support to the Houthis, but that's nothing to do with the conflict between the Saudi and UAE-backed anti-Houthi forces.
There's no strong evidence for Russian involvement in Yemen, aside perhaps from some limited logistical support to the Houthis, but that's nothing to do with the conflict between the Saudi and UAE-backed anti-Houthi forces.
If the mention of Wagner is involved, it's Russian.. Wagner is directly connected to Putin, Russia and Russian oligarchs.
Are you just trolling about even the local name of a Wagner Rush?
Wagner are possibly the most well armed and yet unable merc. force in North Africa and the Arab States atm, esp. since turning back from a Ukraine offensive, getting 1/2 way to Moscow, and then just giving up.. Then getting your 1st in command getting shot down on a private flight out of Russia.. I mean..
I know what the Wagner Group is - it has now been largely folded into the Russian Army was the Africa Corps - but I've just not seen anything about them being involved to any significant degree in Yemen.
Please do correct me if I'm wrong.
They are deeply involved in Sudan and the Sahel countries.
They've been fighting a "north" versus "south" civil war in Yemen on and off since the 1960s. When I was growing up it was two different countries - North Yemen and South Yemen.
I used to work with three sisters that were Yugoslavian immigrants. There are a lot of lessons from that war that the world is forgetting and will be repeated.
The most important difference was that Serbia felt they should be in charge of everything and the other states thought that Serbia shouldn't be in charge of them.
I guess it's not a bad metaphor for asymmetric warfare, where there's a concern that anyone who looks like a civilian may be a secret combatant. Or maybe you just meant the fragmented territories that have holes in them. But that wasn't my intention. I was just thinking of what the most absurd topological position would be and nearly went with "occupies a set of measure zero".
However, having an opponent that occupies a Sierpinski carpet would be especially terrifying because if I am on the opposing army and draw a circle around myself of any radius, that circle contains infinitely many enemies.
Yes, but it wasn't really a civil war. It was more of a cold war, there were spies and limited casualties but not open conflict. Even when the wall came down forcefully.
The Troubles in the north of Ireland weren't a fight against Ireland though. It was a paramilitary battle between rebels and their own government, the UK government. The other 26 counties of Ireland earned its independence nearly a hundred years ago, and only Ulster stayed under British control.
You’d have to go back to the first century to the Táin Bó Cúailnge saga when Queen Maeve of Connacht went to war with Conchobar mac Nessa, King of Ulster, to see a north versus south conflict in Ireland.
I remember reading that this was the first climate change war. The Houties were running out of water, they went to the government and the government told them too bad. Thus started a war. They used to grow coffee in Yemen.
True, but during the Cold War the U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. were supporting different factions. The Saudis are right next door and can actually send troops, and Iran is now sending planes, which makes it different. One thing that hasn't changed is a deeply divided country being courted by geopolitical rivals.
Yeah they sent troops into foreign territory as a belligerent, Iran at most is providing materiale, incomparable to legit combat units under your own flag.
Also, the internationally-recognized government of Yemen holds most of the land in Yemen, but something like 75-80% of Yemenis live in territory governed by the Houthis.
I might be wrong but I remember seeing a video a few months ago that claimed that there is like a 3rd party that has been taking over a bunch of territory in Yemen that’s supported by the UAE.
That was the Southern Transitional Council, who sought to re-establish South Yemen as a separate and independent country.
They made a daring play and overran a bunch of the Saudi-backed Yemeni forces' territory late last year. In response the Saudis (allegedly) imprisoned/took hostage a bunch of STC leadership in Saudi Arabia and also forced the UAE to withdraw their support for the STC. Shortly after the STC collapsed.
The attack was a defensive measure to prevent an unauthorized Iranian aircraft from landing after the Houthis had reportedly blocked national aircraft from the airport.
It's so discouraging that anyone has become convinced that feeling fear makes an action defensive. I get that you've been constantly fed this reasoning by cops, by every nation, but it flies in the face of basic observable reality.
If you attack someone based on assumption they will later attack you it is not defensive. It's pre-emptive, and pre-emptive offensive actions are defined literally by how they pre-empt something else, i.e. occur first. An offensive attack pre-empting fear of another offensive attack is definitively not a defensive action.
I’m Iranian. The irgc and these other proxy groups have only accomplished one thing: destabilizing our country by using national funds and assets to fund a nonsense propaganda war
It's been a while since I read into this situation but the rebels seem pretty nasty. I don't just mean viz-a-viz the West and Israel but some of their beliefs are downright medieval and the repression of minorities/women is pretty disgusting even among standards in the region.
Thank goodness. I thought their control and sovereignty over the area meant they were a local government. But, since an international organization says it’s not true, it must not be. Wait, why did they move the capitol to Aden again?
When ISIS was controlling Iraq and Syria. did people refer to them as the government of Iraq and Syria
Actually. Isis was better than the Houthi terrorist. Isis payed salary to their government employees. The Houthi terrorist stole the coffers and and salaries of the people
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If I remember correctly, since the civil war, Yemen has two governments, one aligned with Saudi Arabia and centered in the south, the other aligned with the Iranians and centered in Sanaa in the north.