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U.N. says Yemen's warring parties agree to 2-month truce

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Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels claim several attacks across the country’s borders, targeting the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Iran, the UAE and Saudi are able to afford buying more weapons through their respective sales of oil and gas.

US supplied weapons from the air?

Why no mention of Russia selling weapons?

https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/russia-is-selling-more-weapons-to-saudi-arabia-and-the-uae-24431

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Finally some good news. I hope the country will split in half and live in peace.

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Will the warring parties honor the truce for two months? And then, I'm guessing after two months, it will be back to warring as usual.

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The Zaydis, what the west now call Houthis, have been at war with someone or the other more or less continuously since 425 AD. This current war was started by the Zaydis attacking the UN brokered government of Yemen. That government is mostly Sunni and the Zaydis are a fundamentalist sect of Shiites with an ideology similar in many ways to that of the Salafists. The current government of Yemen is the product of a previous attack by the Zaydis on the former nation of South Yemen. The UN helped mediate a resolution to that war that led to a unified Yemen. But the Zaydis cannot abide that and attacked the UN sponsored government, leading to the current civil war. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States became involved when it became apparent Iran was sending the Zaydis financial support, training and arms. The IRGC Quds Force and Hezbollah have been operating alongside the Houthis since 2014, before the Saudis intervened. It was the presence of Iranian and Lebanese (Hezbollah) forces and the Iran's direct support that convinced the Saudis and Gulf States they had to intervene. The Zaydis / Houthis ultimate goal is a harsh fundamentalist Shiite theocracy. They are not fighting for freedom or democracy.

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This article is old but it has a pretty good description of who the Zaydis and Houthis are and how the current civil war started.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/21/who-are-the-houthis-fighting-the-saudi-led-coalition-in-yemen

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The Zaydis / Houthis ultimate goal is a harsh fundamentalist Shiite theocracy

So that is why the US supports the fundamentalist Saudi theocracy. They are fundamentalists but they are OUR fundamentalists.

The song remains the same.

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They are not fighting for freedom or democracy.

Well you’re right about something in that convoluted mess.

The Zaydis / Houthis ultimate goal is a harsh fundamentalist Shiite theocracy.

Yeah, I don’t think so. If they win, they just wanna go home and get back to real life, and be left alone.

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RodneyApr. 2  10:46 am JST

Finally some good news. I hope the country will split in half and live in peace.

There was a Yemen Arab Republic and a South Yemen but they united in 1990. In 1994 the southern part tried to secede and lost. So what's the deal now?

Nonetheless, there is a major human castrophe going on there. Maybe a cease fire will get aid, medicine, food for the victims of this insane war.

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