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Saudi Arabia says Yemen rebels targeted its energy facilities

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It is interesting how sharp the contrast in descriptions of the events in Yemen and Ukraine are, given that in Yemen you actually have a population fighting for their freedom against a foreign invasion, and despite everything being stacked against them, more than holding their own.

The vast majority of the population is turned into a single small faction, and not even credited with self agency, while the small cadre of Saud backed 'government' and 'military' are turned into a country wide group with total self agency.

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The Saudis have behaved disgracefully. It should receive the same response from the West as Russia has.

If course people don't care as much about the middle East - it isn't on the West's doorstep or pose an existential threat to Western values and democracy like the tyrant Putin does, but we should not forget that Saudi Arabia has a disgusting regime on every level.

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It is interesting how sharp the contrast in descriptions of the events in Yemen and Ukraine are, given that in Yemen you actually have a population fighting for their freedom against a foreign invasion, and despite everything being stacked against them, more than holding their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_CivilWar(2014%E2%80%93present)

Seems there is three sides involved in the Yemen civil conflict.

Iran keeps supplying the opposition to the Saudi's with weaponry.

With the Saudi's being involved they can hardly be surprised when missiles get lobbed back at them in retaliation by one of the opposing sides.

Russia is lucky Ukraine has not bothered making retaliatory attacks on Russia at this stage, no doubt to not give Putin an avenue of getting Russians undecided on his side. They could easily target Russian military bases near the border or staging areas inside Russia. They could also destroy sections of the Russia to Crimea bridge. I am surprised they have not done so, I would have done that early on if I was Ukraine.

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What would the benefit be for the West to support Iran-backed rebels?

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@RichardPearce, I don't think you understand the cause of this civil war. What the press call the "Houthis" are adherents to the Zaydi tradition of Shiite Islam. They have been at war with various governments since the sects founding in the failed uprising against the Umayyad Caliph circa 724-743 AD. Theirs is a history of fighting one ruler after another. The current civil war is against the Sunni dominated UN recognized government of Yemen. The Zaydi were ruled by a series of caliphs until being dominated by the Ottoman Empire, which they fought more or less continuously for the centuries the Ottomans ruled the region. Once the Ottomans were defeated North Yemen became an independent country ruled by a king. South Yemen was ruled by a plethora of Sunni tribes and the city of Aden was a British Crown Colony and one of the world's major seaports. The British were run out of Aden and South Yemen became a communist state. The Zaydis fought a war against the king and royalty that ruled North Yemen, eventually running them out and declaring themselves an Arab Republic. As soon as that happened, circa 1972 the North went to war against the Sunni ruled South Yemen. The end product of that war was the 1990 unification of North and South Yemen but by 1994 the Zaydis were again engaging in rebellion against the central government. The protests of the Arab Spring accelerated Zaydi demands and the name of their leader al-Houthi was attached to the movement. By 2014 the Houthis/Zaydis had taken over the capital and the civil war was on in earnest. The Zaydis are hard core Islamists who share some ideology with Salafis. They are not so much fighting for freedom as you claim as they are fighting to re-establish the Shiite caliphate that existed in the north before the Ottomans arrived and destroyed it.

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Saudi says Yemen rebels targeted its energy facilities: The rebels unleashed a barrage of drone and missile strikes on Saudi, no casualties, state-run media reported.

Is that true. Or it a an overly exaggerated news that will be used as a further excuse to airstrike Yemenis..

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