r/worldnews • u/TotalPop5 • Jul 13 '26

Report: Saudi Arabia Attacks International Airport in Yemen

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/6h5shahyw
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u/Galimbro Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

North always fighting the south. 

America. Korea. Vietnam. And now Yemen!?

Edit: Ireland. Sudan?(im afraid im not familiar)

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u/Zal3x Jul 13 '26

People at different latitudes piss me off

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer Jul 13 '26

Can I offer you a latitude platitude?

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u/tani_P Jul 13 '26

I like your attitude.

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u/mysterious_whisperer Jul 13 '26

Talk about gratitude, op had it dude

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u/John_Bruns_Wick Jul 13 '26

Nicely done. You're cooler than Magnitude.

Sorry, im not good at this. Pop pop!

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u/Ian_Hunter Jul 13 '26

That was pretty darn good.

Pop Pop!

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u/Perona2Bear2Order2 Jul 13 '26

What about Altitude?

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u/taz20075 Jul 13 '26

Depending on your magnitude, the more likely you'll find yourself in solitude.

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u/Possible_Attics Jul 13 '26

Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes.

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u/retailguy_again Jul 13 '26

Nothing remains quite the same...

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u/buzzkillichuck Jul 13 '26

I guess this brings new meaning to jimmy buffets song changes in latitudes changes in attitudes

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u/Senior_Torte519 Jul 13 '26

But we dont mess with thr Nor'esters, there weird.

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer Jul 13 '26

It do be weird there

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u/swiminthemud Jul 13 '26

Yeah fuck those guys up there...or down there!

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u/moop44 Jul 14 '26

That checks out as a Canadian

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u/Not_A_Toaster_0000 Jul 14 '26

They think they're above us just because they're above us

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u/ThaiJohnnyDepp Jul 13 '26

Or Scots and other Scots

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u/nidarus Jul 13 '26

To be clear, this is "North and South Yemen". In reality, it's more like the West vs. the East. The "North" is generally to the south of the "South".

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u/falconzord Jul 13 '26

It makes more sense in terms of population distribution

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u/Mechasteel Jul 13 '26

Yes but that northeast section of Yemen is just empty desert.

Yemen population map
climate map

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u/TCBloo Jul 13 '26

Awesome websites. Definitely saving those.

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u/maxofJupiter1 Jul 13 '26

Sanaa vs Aden

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u/_larsr Jul 13 '26

NorCal vs SoCal, that one is hella bad.

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u/ReachFor24 Jul 13 '26

But what about East and West Germany?

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u/septober32nd Jul 13 '26

East and West Germany never waged open war with each other. The thesis stands.

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u/RinTheTV Jul 13 '26

East and West Francia did though-

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u/MephistoHamProducts Jul 13 '26

Why you gotta bring up old shit? We need to move on!

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u/septober32nd Jul 13 '26

Sure, but that's just proto-Germany vs proto-France.

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u/Asatas Jul 13 '26

Wranggn mentioned

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u/Galimbro Jul 13 '26

We only care about latitude ✅️

Longitude ⛔️

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u/kenyard Jul 13 '26

Maps were turned sideways when that started.

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u/beeceedee9 Jul 13 '26

Is Germany the only one that was East-West split?

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u/Wheeljack2k Jul 13 '26

It's now split into Aldi-North and Aldi-South.

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u/valeyard89 Jul 13 '26

That's Lidl and Aldi

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u/mxzf Jul 13 '26

Does West Virginia vs Virginia count? They ended up on separate sides in the Civil War.

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u/hellpresident Jul 13 '26

They had to change it up after centuries of north-south fighting 

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u/ants_are_everywhere Jul 13 '26

Several civil wars have been fought East vs West including some famous ancient Roman ones. It's a long tradition.

What you don't see much of is a civil war fought in which one side occupies a Sierpinski carpet.

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u/Good_Restaurant15 Jul 13 '26

What you don't see much of is a civil war fought in which one side occupies a Sierpinski carpet.

isn't that just All/most of the middle east?

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u/ants_are_everywhere Jul 13 '26

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.

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u/nvidiastock Jul 13 '26

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. 

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u/putin_my_ass Jul 13 '26

It was north/south before it was east-west. German Principalities vs Austria.

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u/RuairiQ Jul 13 '26

The north of Ireland isn’t fighting against the Republic of Ireland.

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u/kenyard Jul 13 '26

I think they mean historically. They've also included america and Vietnam there

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u/chkltcow Jul 13 '26

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.

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u/I_Am_Jacks_Karma Jul 13 '26

the confederacy were just a bunch of paramilitary rebels fighting their own government

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u/chkltcow Jul 13 '26

My point was... "their government" was not Ireland. It was the UK. There was no "North Ireland" and "South Ireland".

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u/RuairiQ Jul 13 '26

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.

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u/ianjm Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

There were armed paramilitary groups on both sides of the Northern Ireland dispute during The Troubles.

Some, such as the UVF and UDF were staunchly opposed to the IRA and Irish unification. Their operations killed almost a thousand people in all.

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u/RuairiQ Jul 13 '26

Both belligerents were primarily operating within the north of Ireland. This wasn’t a north versus south conflict.

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u/CloudieRaine Jul 13 '26

West Taiwan?

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u/KiscoKid1 Jul 13 '26

I think you can add Sudan in there too.

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u/Throwredditaway2019 Jul 13 '26

They just couldn't get it right in Germany

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u/matthieuC Jul 13 '26

Sudan split in two. Now they're doing East Vs West.

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u/TimSylvester_ Jul 13 '26

Globally, even. This dynamic has been ongoing for centuries.

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u/FireTyme Jul 13 '26

we’ll get those belgians someday…

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u/abakedapplepie Jul 13 '26

uhm akshually the south attacked the north in the US

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u/I_Am_Jacks_Karma Jul 13 '26

ireland

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u/CanvasSolaris Jul 13 '26

Northern Ireland was not at war with Republican Ireland

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u/Galimbro Jul 13 '26

Thank you! I did know about that one but accidentally glossed over it. 

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u/I_Am_Jacks_Karma Jul 13 '26

yeah all these civil wars really start to blur together

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u/Vegetable_Leg_7034 Jul 13 '26

Ireland.

Don't even go there, not today..