This is gonna be a slaughter…
Saudi Arabia is reportedly preparing to support a Yemeni government offensive to recapture territory on the southern Red Sea coastal plain from the Houthis. Yemeni government forces likely have the capacity to successfully execute such an offensive, assuming the objectives are limited. Saudi allies Pakistan and Turkey are providing defensive and offensive military support to Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni government. Pakistani and Turkish military support to Saudi Arabia reflects increasing military cooperation between the three countries under the “Mecca Pact,” a mutual defense treaty which the countries signed on August 7.
Yeah it’s hard to predict the direction of things in that part of the world with certainty. For the last 150 years it’s been a lot of 2 steps forward and one step back… But stability + growing economic prosperity slowly over many decades has seemed to change attitudes in the region and shift them away from religious and political radicalism.
Iran’s current form, and Syria’s before it, was the result of Western versus Easter Bloc proxy war.
Nice to have intelligent comments in here and a non-hostile tone. The Israel/Palestine types in here these days are just insufferable. I refuse to delete or whine to the admins about any individual post, but GAWD some of them…
And the USA and EU are no saints in this, either, I admit we’ve been far too tolerant of pieces of shit like Netanyahu, Erdogan, etc.
Well, when their time is over, or conversely when a day of political judgement comes for them in this world, then their time will end. Until then, it seems they have free reign. We’re living in historic times. I wasn’t a fan of Bush II’s GWOT until ISIL started. Before that it seemed like just another neocon “forever war” and it was, but at the same time, it did have its moments where a little good was done in this world. At astronomical cost.
In a different region/conflict, I think those Merkel years are due for a huge re-think in central Europe, in light of what’s going on in Ukraine right now. Putin played her like a fiddle, and played her for a fool at the same time. .