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Report : International greedy war in Yemen
Report : International greedy war in Yemen
Report : International greedy war in Yemen
[17/February/2019]



SANAA, Feb. 17 (Saba) – The war in Yemen is far more than just a political struggle, the political struggle does not even begin to capture a fraction of what the conflict is really about.

The war on Yemen today is a brutal example of how the expansion of global capitalist interests destroys nations.

Blessed with the region’s richest human resources, massive untapped oil/gas, mineral, water, and fishery wealth, Yemen has been the target of globalists since at least the 1920s.

Ever since the 1990s, the global economy has incrementally shifted, the petrodollar, once enabling the American Empire to finance endless wars, has been undermined by a growing crisis in liquidity, the resulting desperate search for new sources of capital animates the globalists’ drive to violently subdue the Middle East today.

Once attractive “emerging markets” offering investors desperate for higher returns a “sure thing” have become over-leveraged, the resulting crash and scramble to reverse a trend that sees much of the world’s savings shift away from the West has left much of New York and London exposed. Western equity markets and banks broadly speaking are now desperate to siphon off the last of the world’s liquid wealth before it is forever absorbed by Asia or Africa, this campaign implicates members of the GCC long responsible for assisting in redirecting much of the trillions earned from oil and gas industries back to the West.

What has remained an unspoken rivalry between members of this false alliance, simmering for years, has exploded over Yemen.

Here, then, is the critical concern for observers moving forward.

What animates the calculations of those waging war on parts of Yemen requires an appreciation for the geostrategic concerns of participants otherwise assumed to be aligned in a “coalition” led by Saudi Arabia.

America’s favored Kingdom, itself, is a financial wreck. Unable to find new sources of investment (even its once cherished ARAMCO can’t attract the foreign capital needed to keep the corrupt family afloat), an invasion and rapid sequestration of Yemen’s natural resources in under populated South Yemen was deemed a necessary gamble.

The problem here is that Yemenis despise the Saudi enterprise and have resisted this latest campaign to steal their country’s wealth most violently.

As the three primary centers of finance in Arabia all directed resources into Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Qatar applied a tried-and-true tool of coercion to poison the religious underbelly of Yemen’s diverse population.

By the late 1990s, Southern Arabia was littered with al-Qaeda affiliates, a threat to the United Arab Emirates.

The subsequent sectarianism visiting other parts of the region by the 2000s brought Yemen to its 2011 political meltdown.

The foundations of the current catastrophe in Yemen, however, cannot be entirely blamed on the intra-GCC struggle over regional ascendency.

Recent reports of former and present government officials advocating war in Yemen have clearly sought to benefit certain industries to which they were affiliated, such barely reported “scandals” highlight the obvious links between US policy and major companies in the weapons, oil/gas, logistics, and financial industries.

Indeed, war in Yemen can be seen as a campaign by these industries, through corrupt American officials, to shift what appears to be the last bits of GCC savings into the greedy hands of the financial elite.

The now obvious war pitting Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE against each other in Yemen, threatens to undermine any ability of other regional players, including Turkey, to make necessary adjustments moving forward.

Any collapse of the Saudi leadership threatens dramatic changes in Arabia’s political economic order, by necessity, this shift has the heavy hand of global financial interests attempting to control the outcome, a precarious intervention that calculates Turkey’s new relations with Russia as a possible pretext for the next violent confrontation in the region.

Earlier this year, the Emirates even felt confident enough to attempt the colonization of Socotra, the Yemeni island renowned for its ecological diversity, which the Yemeni government, though dependent on Emirati and Saudi support, protested.

These protests barely seem to have affected the Emirates' influence in Yemen, with Abu Dhabi benefiting from the perception that the Emirates stemmed the rise of AQAP in the country. Alongside fighting the Yemeni people, both nations seek to occupy various Yemeni regions. Socotra island recently became the latest battleground between Abu Dhabi and Riyadh's aspirations, further testing the two's relations.

The UAE in May controversially expanded its military presence on the strategic, resource-rich island. Yemeni officials then complained, prompting Saudi Arabia to bring in its own troops. Others have criticized the UAE for wanting to exploit Socotra's natural resources and strengthen its own geopolitical position.

While the UAE later agreed to partially withdraw, showing Saudi Arabia had outmaneuvered the UAE in at this point, it still has a presence on the island, suggesting the confrontation here is not over.

"Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE compete for influence, power and resources in the south of Yemen, their current jostling over the island of Socotra is due to its geostrategic ties to the southern provinces and Aden,"

A stronghold in Socotra would give the UAE greater influence in Aden – Yemen's de facto capital, which it has long had its eyes on. Aden's port would extend Dubai's maritime trade to the Indian Ocean and become an alternative to the Straits of Hormuz – an unreliable trade route due to its shared use with Iran, it would also help the UAE expand its empire towards East Africa.

It is therefore the latest battle in the race for regional hegemony between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.

In both the short and the long term, such differing policies will further destabilize Yemen, and ultimately the Yemeni people will suffer the most.

Yemen has become a battleground for various international ambitions, which further fragments the country. Emirati and Saudi differences alone decrease the changes of a solid political solution, even after the conflict, with various factions becoming empowered.



Written by Mona Zaid

Saba


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