Yep...Need two forums.

*may* be aiding???

We've known this to be true ever since the Saudi bombing campaign started in 2015.

Well, I'd say bombing little girls and slaughtering civilians isn't the way to go. If you want under reported terrorist attacks, the drone and bombing campaign would add a ton of items that have been all but ignored. But then since when do Americans give two shits about bombing people. After all to most Americans Arabs are even human.

*arent even human.

@Santa: I seriously doubt that my english is going to have much effect on the people's republic of China. I they barely even listen to their own people, then what are the chances thry will listen to a white guy like me?)

You might aswell ask me what made the Mongol hordes great? Interesting armchair conversation, but it's not going to make a difference.

If you want to asvocate doing aomething about China, maybe a trade embargo... But then, the US/Western world has enough of its own problems to deal with first.

You could mention Tibet in a diplomatic channel to the Chinese, and they'd tell you it is part of China. They could also reply, what about Standing Rock (DAPL)

Well, since the US is now going to do precisely zero while dictators run rampant and commit war crimes the answer to "what makes Russia great" and what makes China great" are the same think: enabling from a weak ass so-called President Trump. All Xi or Putin have to do is throw a little shade and Trump will wet himself

Wet himself? You mean order troops in??

Surely that is why they will avoid throwing anything his way...

To be boring, Yemen is strategic because it borders the southern entrance to the Red Sea. If control of the entrance falls into the wrong hands, it's tantamount to shutting down the Suez Canal. Yemen has some Shiites sponsored by Iran and some Sunnis sponsored by Saudi. Yemen is poor and has far too little water for its people. Yemen's primary purpose is to be a battleground between Saudi and Iran where if things get too hot, Saudi and Iran can pretend that they aren't really there. It's a shame that they're caught in the middle.

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Yes, the Saudis and Iranians are the main regional powers, what is Trump doing sending troops in?

Hauta: The Yemenis don't have a navy with which to cut off the entrance to Red Sea. Somaliland, Puntland and Eritria, across the Straight, aren't exactly islands of stability. Yet Somaliland doesn't even get international recognition that can help protect it from pirates and extremists!

The Shi'ite/Sunni divide is also overstated by so-called experts. The Houthis are actually Zaidis, not quite Shi'ites (in fact, they are allied with Sunni factions), and Iran sends comparatively very little aid and weapons to the country. All these 'explanations' do nothing but justify the Saudi massacre of Yemenis on the ground.

JECE: Agreed about the Yemeni's not really being a threat to cut off the entrance. However, the Iranians are there. It is they who have the power to do so, even though Iran pretends not to be involved in the area.

Regarding the Shiite/Sunni divide, perhaps it is overstated but the underlying rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia is not. Thus, Shiite/Sunni is just a shorthand to describe who is supporting who.

With Sunni and Shia as excuses for the conflict which is fudamentally about power, and who controls things.

Religion used as an excuse to divide people. A tactic so often used by those in political power...

Iran wasn't seen as an enemy of the Gulf Arabs until the Revolution. There weren't Sunni/Shiite problems until Iran stopped being a Saudi-Israeli-Western ally.

The gulf region was never a problem under the Ottoman Empire. Damn that 'Great War' aka WWI.

This is all that bonehead Alexander the Great's fault. Damn Macedonians!!

@Hannibal, an enemy of the US or of the Gulf Arabs??

Enemy of the US. The Gulf Arabs, being the US proxies that they are, became an enemy of Iran as well.

Thought this was about COD Black Ops 2 multiplayer map

Dude I love that map

Who doesn't?