Thread by @CarvajalF

so the narrative on #Yemen in some circles is STILL that KSA STARTED the war 🤷🏽‍♂️ ok, so forget Sept2014, forget Nov2014, forget Jan/Feb2015, forget March2015 !!!…

2/focus on ‘KSA offensive operations’, wait, I thought #Yemen Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi ASKED FOR military support AFTER he chased out of Sana’a and Saleh/Houthi Air Force ATTACKED Aden… isn’t Chapter VII about ‘collective DEFENSE’ ??? …the narrative twists do NOTHING to end war!

3/ the script is FIXED on that KSA/US role… ‘BUT’ always comes up at start of describing Houthi role ‘we know ‘they’re not boy scouts’ BUT we knew that at the start 🤷🏽‍♂️

3/accountability: anti KSA/US side want ICC action, what would the Houthi list referred to ICC look like ? #Yemen

5/design of war and fractured militias: think back to 21 Sept 2014 from Amran to Shamlan to Tahrir/CBY area …think to March2015 Houthi militia into Taiz & Saleh forces in Aden & Houthi buses from Taiz to Lahj into Aden… the fragmentation indeed !! #Yemen

6/the fact POTUS has NOT spoken w Crown Prince Bin Salman is exactly the diplomatic treatment Biden promised… SecDef meets w Min of Defense, not w the Crown Prince …this isn’t a FAILURE by @JoeBiden it’s a strategy (amid Iran Nuclear talks) #Yemen

7/ think tanks pushing the KSA/AQ partnership in #Yemen vs Houthis 🤷🏽‍♂️ … a Houthi line since Feb2021… these mentions are not about 2015, when we saw AQ/AAS (see BBC report) in Taiz (when I said it in 2011 and 2015 I was blocked by Taizis & proGoY tweeps 😂😂)

8/.. as ive said on Clubhouse chats, @POTUS instantly shifted US ‘policy in #Yemen’ from CT approach…who’s trying to pull US BACK to the approach?… Houthis & now anti-KSA folks… cuz Houthis r still ‘not terrorists’ …(current reports saying US sending troops to ‘fight AQ’)

9/a good point…de-link #Yemen from KSA …yet, NO ONE says HOW …as we mention on Diwan podcast, ALL Diplomats ran to Jeddah in 2015… not Muscat, not Djibouti…. Jeddah (b/c of posh accommodations too, I mean, Djibouti??? )

10/ talk on Blockade… NO ONE mentioning Res2216… as if it existed in KSA/Houthi vacuum …again aaaayyyy think tanks …

11/ a Human Rights defender talks about 1000 women arrested and tortured … won’t see that on their social feeds.. only about ‘blockade’ …

12/ ‘Not a civil war’, oh… so this whole thing actual ONLY started on 25 March 2015… not August2013… not Aug2014… not 21 Sept 2014… not Jan2015… oh…

13/ so mention 2216 BUT STILL a blockade 🤷🏽‍♂️ one thing CANT be two different things …. Houthi siege in Taiz is NOT about smuggled weapons by rivals… it’s about CONTROL and taxation… arms embargo instruments mentioned in passing w/o mentioning ARMS … #Yemen

14/ 2216 s very much relevant TODAY, one may challenge relevance of Hadi as the recognized President, but weapons keep flowing into Houthi hands, now weapons production is INCREASING in Houthi territory …new sanctions on finance Companies may pave the way for a NEW Resolution

15/ the UNSC is not in the business of staying OUT of conflicts … no new Resolution will hand full control of negotiations to #Yemen-is… close the Office of UN Envoy (the source of tension btween UN SecGen & UNSC) and hand process to ONE sponsor to lead Yemeni process

16/ UK is UNSC pen holder … UN Envoy is British … next Envoy may be British

17/ 😂 there it is again, the ‘KSA wants to annex Mahra cuz they want a pipeline to Arabian Sea’- line, a think tank providing NO EVIDENCE of this …none. Now, US gives KSA a green light on this ..NO MENTION OF OMAN in this issue !!! #Yemen

18/only a handful of Democrats side w Houthi line on conflict, and now they r losing Murphy…sort of… as I’ve mentioned on CH, all GQPers r anti Iran, 80% of Dems r Centrists …

https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1407181893078982656

19/ oh boy, a think tank saying ‘for all the horrible things Houthis hv done, they’ve never attacked the US’… well then, slogans DONT matter, so then anti Iran slogans don’t matter either … just ignore them all….

20/ the goal ‘to get US out of THIS war’… WHICH war?… as #Yemen-is hv said over & over there are three wars …which one is the US supposed to detached from???…which one is Biden supposed to ‘end’?