Thread by @DaPeaple

Thread!

In 2015 Saudi Arabia intervened in the civil war in Yemen and launched Operation Decisive Storm. Five years later, the Houthis are still a strong fighting force in Yemen. What has this war accomplished since 2015? 1/ steemit.com/news/@wedacoal…

The Houthis still control large sections of Yemen and have the support of the Yemeni people. Yemen is 75% Sunni, yet the people are supporting a Shiite movement within their country. Why? 2/ anonymousworldwide.com/2020/03/01/sau…

In the last five years, the Saudi-led coalition’s intervention in Yemen has killed over 100k people. KSA deployed over 150k troops to Yemen and 100k warplanes to a country that doesn’t have any air defenses. 3/ wedacoalition.org/2020/03/01/925…

Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain all contributed to the daily atrocities of this war. Djibouti, Eritrea, and Somalia also opened their airspace, military bases, and territorial waters to the coalition. 4/ wedacoalition.org/2020/03/04/%d8…

Why would all of these nations who never seem to agree on anything suddenly agree to start bombarding one of the poorest nations in the world? One reason could be the Iranian controlled Strait of Hormuz. 5/

17 million barrels of oil a day pass through the Strait of Hormuz which is 20 to 30 percent of the world’s total consumption. It is the only route to the open ocean for one-sixth of the global oil production and one-third of the world’s natural gas 6/

It is the only path from the oil-rich Arabian Gulf to the Indian Ocean for maritime traffic. In September of 2015, Saudi Arabia released a study that purposed a 590-mile long water canal that would connect the Arabian Gulf with the Arabian Sea to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. 7/

The plans for this water canal were released just as tensions began to rise in Yemen, which is why the Saudi study suggested an alternative route through Oman. 8/

Saad Bin Omar told Gulf News in 2015 that the canal will be, “150-meters wide and 25 meters deep, the canal will have a main course across Saudi Arabia and Yemen however, we have thought of Oman as an alternative for Yemen if the country suffers political instability.” 🤔 9/

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates would benefit greatly if a water canal was built to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, and is it a mere coincidence that all of these countries are also members of the Arab Coalition invading Yemen? 10/

Saudi Arabia also threatened to turn Qatar into an island by building a water canal along its border with Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia accepted international bids to dig the canal dubbed the Salwa Canal. 11/

It begs the question, KSA intend to build a water canal from the Arabian Gulf to the Arabian Sea, or is this just propaganda that Saudi Arabia uses to try and intimidate their foes? If Saudi Arabia does intend to dig this water canal through Yemen than Iran would oppose it 12/

Why isn’t this ever mentioned as a reason for the quagmire in Yemen? At least it would provide a logical explanation of the continued violence in Yemen. Instead, global leaders would rather mislead the public about the ongoing genocide in Yemen. 13/

Saudi Arabia has endless resources, and it became a fruitful honeypot for arms manufacturers around the globe. Saudi Arabia effectively became the Global Military Industrial Complex’s unofficial sugar daddy. 14/

Saudi Arabia is said to hold 34% of the world’s oil, but it has no direct access to the sea to transport the oil. Yemen does have direct access to the sea with 19 well-established ports that dot Yemen’s coastline. 15/

Yemen Socio-Economic Update for May 2016 stated, crude oil production & liquefied natural gas exports declined by 76.8% & 80.3% respectively in 2015 compared to 2014. The lost opportunity cost of crude oil production and LNG exports is estimated at $2.5 b, & $1.6 b in 2015.” 16/

reliefweb.int/sites/reliefwe… source for 16/

the GDP of the oil & gas sector shrank by about 75.7%, contributing to a drop in the GDP per capita by 36.1% in 2015. The decline in oil and gas exports by about 84.5% in 2015 resulted in a deterioration of the national currency, higher inflation, & poverty rates.” 17/

with gas was down 80.3% from 2014 to 2015 & oil down 76.8% in just one year truly underscores KSA real objective in Yemen. How come KSA can completely wipeout Yemen’s oil and natural gas sector in 1 year, but fail to defeat the Houthi rebels after 5 years of war in Yemen? 18/

If Saudi Arabia’s goal in Yemen was to halt the Houthi movement from overtaking Yemen, they failed, cause the Houthi’s still control Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa. 19/

Saudi Arabia’s goal in Yemen was to devastate the Yemeni people and force the population into submission. Saudi Arabia wanted to make Yemen a failed state, and populate Yemen’s government with Saudi loyalists to perpetuate the Kingdom’s vision for Yemen. 20/

When the former president of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh was assassinated by Houthi rebels, the leader of the Houthi rebels Abdul Malik al-Houthi called it “the day of the fall of the treasonous conspiracy.” One has to wonder what Mr. Houthi was talking about🤔so I will tell you 21/

Three months before his death encrypted messages were obtained by the Houthi’s “there were encrypted messages between Saleh, the Emirates, and a number of countries, such as the UAE, Russia, and Jordan.” Mohamed Abdel Salam told Al-Jazeera 22/

the encrypted messages were allegedly negotiations between president Saleh and Russia were Saleh agreed to turn the capital of Yemen over to the Arab Coalition in exchange for Russia vying to remove Saleh from the UN Security Council’s sanctions list. 23/ aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/y…

Two days before he was assassinated president Saleh broke his ties with the Houthi rebels and publically stated he has opened up a dialogue with the Saudi-led coalition. The Houthis accused Saleh of “undertaking an unethical betrayal against the Yemenis” 24/

The current president of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi assumed office after the assassination of president Saleh, he was elected president in an election where he was the only candidate and the Yemeni people view him as an absently weak president. 25/

Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi is currently in exile in Saudi Arabia. The only forces on the ground in Yemen backing Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi are Saudi-armed Islamist Islah Party militia and Sudanese mercenaries. 26/ middleeastmonitor.com/20191108-riyad…

Hadi was only supposed to hold office during a transitional period and he was to relinquish his office after an election, but an election was never held and Hadi remains a puppet president of Yemen. 27/

The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia won’t allow an election knowing very well the Yemeni people will not vote for Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and Saudi Arabia cannot risk someone who isn’t a Saudi loyalist being elected into office. 28/

The Yemen Files revealed that the US had been arming, training and funding forces in Yemen leading up to the war. According to an email that was released by WikiLeaks between Yemen Major General Ahmed Ali al-Ashwal and US Army Colonel Randolph E. Rosin 29/

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and any nation that profits from the oil these countries export have a vested interest in controlling Yemen. 30/

For the US and Saudi Arabia, it is about the Petrodollar. For European nations, it is about energy independence from Russia and Iran. The Yemeni people are the ones suffering the most from this real-life-genocidal game of Risk. 31/

This “intervention” has left 24 million people in need of protection and assistance in Yemen that is nearly 80% of Yemen’s population. 3.2 million requiring treatment for acute malnutrition, which includes 2 million children under five and more than 1 million pregnant women 32/

More than 20 million across Yemen are classified by the UN as “food insecure” & 14.3 million people are classified as being in “acute need” As of 2019, 3.3 million Yemenis have been displaced in a war in which the KSA has directly targeted civilians in 67% of their airstrikes 33/

Over 100,000 men, women, and children have been killed in this war, and there are no signs of the conflict ending. Saudi Arabia expected the war in Yemen to be easy and taking over Yemen was thought to be a cheaper option to them 34/

The people of Yemen have proven to be more resilient than any global power attempting to invade their lands since the 1950s. The “international community” needs to stop sending bombs to Yemen, and start sending humanitarian aid. #OpYemen #Anonymous wedacoalition.org/2020/03/01/925…