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Posted on 07/13/2026 5:30:16 AM PDT by McGruff
Houthi rebels in Yemen say Sanaa International Airport has been hit by Saudi strikes.
Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said Monday on Telegram that Saudi Arabia launched the airstrikes in what he called an “end to the de-escalation phase.”
He warned that “this aggression will not go unanswered or unpunished.”
Orders to evacuate the airport and surrounding areas have been issued.
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Unlike Iran, the Houthi rebels are in an area that can be carpet-bombed into oblivion and then occupied or monitored by drones that can call in strikes to kill anything bigger than a snake. I don’t know why they can create “choke points” anywhere.
You do know this is nothing new. The Saudis and Yemen have been at it since around 2015.
If these people are in control of the government, why are they still called ‘rebels’?..................
The Houthis are Iran
Saudi Arabia has been delegated to deal with the Iranians operating in Yemen. Thus, the Saudis are immune from participating in the direct kinetic action inside Iranian borders being performed by Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE.
We can be absolutely certain that all the Gulf States kinetic activity is targeted and directed by the American Central Command
There is a separate Yemeni government.
There has always been a split of the Yemenis since the Brits relinquished control way back there.
The North Yemenis are presently the Houthi tribe
The South Yemenis are the “government”
The South will rise again!.................
Like the Saudis denying us use of bases in Saudi for offensive ops against Iran?
That's pretty "kinetic" too, just in a slightly broader context. (Small minds will not understand.)
Yes, but the past few years have seen compromise between Iran / the Houthis and S.A., S.A. pretty much laying off their fairly intensive ops vs. the Houthis, etc. This would seem to be a reversal of that.
Perhaps MBS has decided that “de-escalation” and compromise with the zealots in Iran, in the long run is a fools game? Or, as the line from Babylon 5 put it: “It’s like making a deal with a piranha.”
One can hope for such grounding in reality.
A second front opening up?
As if the Houthis haven't benn attacking commerce in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait for a number of years already?
-——again!-—
I think maybe that is the problem.
I don’t think the south has ever risen in the first place to be able to take control
You don’t know what you don’t know
What you think you know is not what you should know
What is said and what is done are not the same
More succinct to simply observe it’s another neocon regime change cluster….
My brother has a Jeep Gladiator pickup and yesterday he said he was looking at a Honda Civic Hybrid because of the gas the Jeep inhales ,LOL
But what you suggest is a lie with no foundation in reality
The people in Yemen rose up against their dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh. During the Yemeni revolution, the Gulf Cooperation Council (all of which are dictatorships) proposed an agreement whereby President Ali Abdullah Saleh would transfer his powers to Vice President Hadi. They staged a single candidate election to 'ratify' this regime change effort.
Yemenis rejected having their leadership hand selected by foreign dictatorships and rose up against the government that foreign kings tried to impose upon them.
March of 2015 the Saudis invaded with help from other gulf monarchies and the despotism in Egypt. Oh, and the help of Barack Obama's Pentagon too.
It went like most Arab wars, a complete shit show. UN assessed hundreds of thousands killed by the blockade and starvation, but barely made a ripple in Western media. Then in 2019 the Houthis started to hit Saudi refining capacity with drones and the Saudis realized really damn quick they didn't want to be at war anymore and they quit the field.
A failed regime change operation anyway you want to slice it.
Either go full Carthage, or don't go at all.
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