• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Thanks for the link. However, it says that it’s a Saudi Arabian blockade, the US participated at the beginning but was not the driving force behind it and did not stay for long.

    However, in mid-2016 and amid escalating, international concerns regarding some of the strategic initiatives undertaken by the Saudi Arabian military in the conflict, the U.S. pulled back significantly on its participation in this joint planning cell, reducing its staff commitment to only five US workers.

    US involvement since then has primarily been the supply of weapons. Like I say, the only real winners are arms dealers.

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      10 months ago

      Supplying weapons goes a lot further than one might think. I remember reading somewhere (please don’t make me dig this up), that practically all the ground maintenance staff of the Saudi air force are US personell (maybe private contractors don’t remember). Just the pilots are Saudis really. The US supported this war and blockade in various ways all the way through. It should be obvious why Ansarallah thinks the US is their enemy.

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        10 months ago

        Oh absolutely, the US are also providing intelligence. However they’re not doing the fighting or directing the military activities. But the UK are also doing much of the same, it’s just that the US are more proficient at it.

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        10 months ago

        But it’s still not a war between the US and Yemen.