Better in the short term only. I doubt they would be as far along, had it remained in place, but would not have solved the problem. Just another way of kicking the can down the road. Not sure if it ever worked anywhere as I cannot think of an example and we have been trying to keep the genie in the bottle or at least limit the number of bottles ever since we called it out of the bottle the first time.Trump and the US government have approved the sale of high accuracy bombs and other weapons sales to Saudi to use against the Houthi in Yemen. I do not have the details but Saudis will spend hundreds of millions over the next ten years. The Houthi militia are backed by Iran. The Saudis do not want a Shia regime on their border.
It is said Biden opposes the deal but if the congress has approved it what can he do about it?
The Houthis religious practices are closer to Sunni than Shia.. That's not the problem. The Saudis have propped Yemen up with healthcare and education, job creation, infrastructure ,food and medicine, gasoline for 40 years. They don't want a failed state of their border.
Terrorist like al Shaabab, AlQaeda, Boko Haram, Somali pirates and now ISIS have been pouring in since 1998. Saudi moved villages back from the border. They invested in a sophisticated wall across Asir ..When they had enough of cross border attacks they fought back.. Its awful and Yemen is an impoverished mess. Its really always been lawless outside of Sa'na....The Houthis want to control the Bab al Mandab and Socotra.
Which means they woul control shipping all the way from the Indian ocean to Suez.
the HOUTHIS are shiites. As to "LAWLESS"----well actually Yemen is a classical SHARIAH state (sunni style) Feel free to ask questions. (I have been known people from both Saana and Aden---(part of communities there since TIME IMMEMORIAL) The Iranians want control of the ports from the Indian Ocean to Suez----they got the HOUTHIS as their proxies
Yes the Houthis are actually Shia, but in practice they are closer to Sunni. my classmate was married to a French envoy to Yemen and lived there 30 years. I never got to Yemen.. Far as I got was the Asir mountains, al Sooda Park, and Halabaja. I said they want control from Suez to Bab al Mandab and the Indian Ocean.
yes----the IRANIANS ---for whom the HOUTHIS shill, want the Ports of Yemen. What else is new? Over many years I have LEARNED from shiites in the USA
with whom I have been aquainted since MORE THAN
50 years----that IRAN is so HOLY to them that FARSI as a language is more important than is arabic. Shiites seek the POWER of "holey moley iran" ---world wide.
If I had not learned it from the "horse's mouth" ---I would not have known
Yemen has been dangerous and impoverished since the 1940s and 1950s,. I knew a lot of Yemeni who worked in KSA.. These days Saudi has taken in 1 million refugees. Its a bad situation.
Yemen has been dangerous and impoverished since a lot longer than the 1940s---to some extent depending on WHOM-----it has also been largely ILLITERATE. I know lots of Yemenis-----I am married to one. Saudi
Arabia has taken one million Yemenis? what else is new ----Saudi Arabia DEPENDS on slaves. That country even uses christian Filipinos and when NECESSARY for technical reasons----will even allow
themselves to touch a Hindu----(ssshhhssshh they even import a jewish doctors now and then for SPECIAL CASES)
These people are refugees not slaves. Jewish businessmen are routinely in KSA for the past 30 years, mostly selling financial instruments. They travel on US passports.Further economic pressure on Iran to give up their nuclear weapons ambitions.Trump also selling weapons to UAE, whom it was just found out, was the center of helping Venezuela skirt the trump oil embargo.Who the fuck these Dem/GOP Establishmemt RINO pig traitors selling arms and weapons to and guns are banned for U.S. subjects in our own homes? Gee whiz don't call us citizens yet the way these congress critters and commie socialists of SCOTUS treat us.
Why did Trump slap an embargo on VZ? Venezuela has always refined Iranian oil. Iran has very little refining capacity of its own.
Yeah.. I see that. I think Obama's agreement with Iran was better. Atoms for Peace was smarter. Iran has needed nuclear power plants to expand their grid since I was a kid. We were training nuclear tech for Iran back then.
Well, it would buy some time until the old Mullahs die off.. Iranians are pretty modern.. and they sure don't like their government.