Thread by @Aldanmarki

Had Yemen not overthrown the bourgeois tribal-military oligarchies that had kept the country impoverished for 5 decades on September 21st, 10 years ago, it would not have stood so firmly on Palestine's side today.

Yemen was on track towards normalization in the run-up to 2014.

From its missile strikes on Occupied Palestine to its effective blockade in the Red Sea; all of it are direct biproducts of the September 21st Revolution which elevated the Palestinian cause to the forefront of the country's top priorities.

The UAE was facilitating shadowy talks between Yemen and Israeli diplomat Bruce Kashdan in the early 2000s, more than a decade before the Abraham Accords was ever a thing.

There was a draft normalization roadmap ready to be signed and everything.

While those talks were ongoing, US CENTCOM was engaged in a highly secretive cash buyback scheme whereby the Yemeni Army would auction off its anti-air missile capabilities to be destroyed. The rationale was that the US did not want the weapons "to end up in terrorist hands".

Officially, only shoulder-borne anti-air missiles were to be disposed of, but CENTCOM likewise dismantled non-portable & fixed anti-air batteries along Yemen's Red Sea coast as part of that same rationale, which is where the entire charade becomes even more bizarre.

So while the UAE was pushing Yemen towards normalization with Israel, the US was bribing the corrupt military class with hundreds of millions of dollars as it eroded the Yemeni Army's military capabilities piece by piece.

The undeclared but obvious goal was to tame Yemen.