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Yemen separatists say they've seized the key port of Aden
CNN ^
| Sun August 11, 2019
| Ivana Kottasová and Sarah El Sirgany,
Posted on 08/11/2019 11:21:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
08/11/2019 11:21:18 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
is this a good or bad thing
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posted on
08/11/2019 11:28:20 AM PDT
by
morphing libertarian
( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
To: butlerweave
That and rape, and murder. It’s the Muslim way.
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posted on
08/11/2019 11:31:44 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
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To: morphing libertarian
Gotta be bad for anybody living there.
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posted on
08/11/2019 11:33:28 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
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posted on
08/11/2019 11:37:18 AM PDT
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morphing libertarian
( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
To: morphing libertarian
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posted on
08/11/2019 11:46:10 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: morphing libertarian
I suspect these guys get funding from a Soros org in the region.
Think Arab Spring.
Not saying Yemen is perfect. It’s not. It’s still stable and not causing The West major headaches.
The world doesn’t need a terrorist group running a nation controlling a choke point to the entrance to the Red Sea.
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posted on
08/11/2019 11:50:51 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
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posted on
08/11/2019 11:51:48 AM PDT
by
morphing libertarian
( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
To: DoughtyOne
Yemen has been shredded by the Iranian mullahcracy's proxies, Houthi terrorists. It's in a civil war. Of course it's not stable.
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posted on
08/11/2019 12:37:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
So Carter, the gift that keeps on giving...
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posted on
08/11/2019 12:39:28 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
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To: SunkenCiv
So Carter, the gift that keeps on giving...
We’re still dealing with that prick’s dumb ass presidential and think tank ideas as much as forty years after the fact.
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posted on
08/11/2019 12:40:36 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
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To: BenLurkin
So, here we have Saudi Arabia, with the 3rd largest defense budget on the planet, unable to defend a city on a peninsula with (using the airport which basically bisects the peninsula as the next-to-last line of defense) a ~2 mile “line” to hold. Holy c***!
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posted on
08/11/2019 1:57:12 PM PDT
by
Paul R.
(The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
To: BenLurkin
What’s partially amusing is that the STC are supposedly the UAE backed allies of the Saudi backed government they just overthrew.
Now, the Iranian backed Houthies can mop up.
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posted on
08/11/2019 2:09:32 PM PDT
by
vikingd00d
(chown -R us ~you/base)
To: morphing libertarian
“is this a good or bad thing”
It is not the worst, which would be Iranian-backed Houthis taking over.
This was an internal split on the Sunni side - one group (STC) backed by the UAE splitting with the Hadi Government backed by the Saudis. Might just be some internal jockeying got out of hand - emotional people.
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posted on
08/11/2019 2:29:39 PM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: DoughtyOne
I want that bastard to live all the way through President Trump's second term and to see the conservative elected after him.
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posted on
08/11/2019 4:39:39 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: BenLurkin
If they hold both Aden and Sana’a, they have both seats of power in the nation.
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posted on
08/11/2019 5:57:14 PM PDT
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: SunkenCiv
Yeah, as long as we’re still unraveling at that point.
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posted on
08/11/2019 7:19:47 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
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To: BenLurkin; morphing libertarian; butlerweave
South Yemen prior to unification in 1990 was a secular state with Aden as the capital
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posted on
08/11/2019 8:45:06 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
To: vikingd00d; BenLurkin
The Houthi rebels want to reset up North Yemen, a Zayidi Muslim state. Zayidis are Shia but they are far closer to Sunnis than the Twelver Shia in Iran. Kinda like 1890s Anglo Catholics between Catholics and Baptists analogically
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08/11/2019 8:48:28 PM PDT
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Cronos
(Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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