In whose interest do United States and Britain want to destroy Yemen and take it back to the Stone Age. For the good of the Yemenis?
The Saudi Regime has been bombing Yemen and her people for over one year now. Powerful as the Saudis are in the Middle East, they are not able to undertake their destructive mission without the active support and collaboration of the United States, Britain and the predominantly Sunni states in both the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, which have allied themselves with the Saudis.
This unholy alliance of nominally Christian and radical Islamic states, have decided that Yemen and her people are expendable and ought to be sacrificed in the tripartite struggles for dominance in the Middle East. Which is taking place between Iran, and Saudi Arabia and the countries of the west, primarily Britain and the United States, which are struggling to maintain their influence in a still changing region of the world. It is this same struggle which has led the Americans and the British and other NATO countries to conspire to escalate the war which is being fought in Syria. And it is also the same struggle which has led to the invasion of Iraq, which, probably more than any conflict in recent history, is the flame which has set the Middle East alight.
So, why does Yemen has to submit to the will their Saudi neighbour or be destroyed? Why do the Houthis have to give up their fight with their fellow Yemeni opponents, and allies of Saudi Arabia, and surrender, or remain the target of the unholy alliance of Sunni Islamist and American and British governments?
Dark clouds over Yemen? Yes, but the plight of the people and the country is being concealed by the 'unholy alliance' which is destroying the hope of the Yemenis.
A nation which is fighting against itself is too pre-occupied to effectively counter the selfish plans of the Americans, British and their allies. Similarly, Saudi Arabia is probably demanding that the Americans and the British give them Yemen as a quid pro quo for having negotiated an nuclear agreement with Iran. Something which the US seems to have agreed to, faced with a major stand off between her and Saudi Arabia.
When the mice are pre-occupied fighting among themselves, the cat is able to take advantage of the presenting situation.
This is why President Obama and Theresa May can leave their offices each day, and go home to their 'normal and safe family lives.' They do not have to take the bloody consequences of their military adventures in Yemen and Syria, amongst others, home with them. Chances are they either do not watch the news about what is happening in Yemen or Syria, because they have to remain 'tough', 'battle-hardened', in order to make the decisions they make and the decisions the Yemenis and Syrians pay for in blood, deaths and the destruction of their countries.
As the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, said in Parliament, yes, "I would press the nuclear button, because it would not be a deterrent if your enemies did not believe you would press it." A more prudent leader might have chosen to say, 'I do not expect to have to press the nuclear weapons button, because I believe our nuclear weapons are an effective deterrent to others using such weapons against us.' But not Mrs May, because she wanted to show how resolute she is.
So, it is probably the same kind of mentality, or, the destroyers of Yemen might argue, why that country and its people are seen as expendable, in the bigger picture of the fight for dominance in the Middle East, which is taking place between the Americans, British and French, with their Saudi and Sunni nations proxy alliance, on the one hand, and the Iranian and, probably, their Russian supporters.
Aligned to this military campaign, is the probable manipulation and exclusion of the media from Yemen. When it comes to Yemen, bad news is being 'buried', whereas, in the case of Syria, there is no problem getting news about the 'atrocities' the Syrian Government and the Russians are alleged to be carrying out.
Yes, politics and power are not only 'dirty', but most definitely, bloody, murderous, immoral and requires the practitioner, too often, to display psychotic behaviours, such as appearing to 'be normal', while perpetrating 'abnormal behaviours' through their decisions.
Is a florid state of psychosis also an essential requirement to be a political leader?
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