Sky news of all news networks has been shockingly honest with presenting the ongoing and highly deliberate attacks on civilians in Yemen and its capital following recent air strikes against Houthi and Yemeni positions. Of course, the comments are mainly from nasty Americans lacking in empathy for others as usual with what you could expect from them given the current crisis in Gaza
>>2234364The Trump admin is carpet bombing cities, not military installations. This is the type of things Saudis did in Yemen for the entirety of the war there and the only thing this will accomplish is to lionize the people there to rally around the regime
I've said this before but the Palestinian war was the singlemost destructive thing to happen to US hegemony and it is entirely self inflicted. All the US has to do, is to force Bibi to stop the war by threatening to stop all arms delivery and that will automatically rob the Yemenis of all their thunder and make them look like a bunch of attention seeker. Furthermore it will give an indication to Arab states that they can influence US policy and i guarantee that you will see the entire middle east crawling to please America and persuade Washington to abandon Israel. But united snakes of AmeriKKKa persist in this doomed course
>>2234402Their aesthetic is wild. Very Command and Conquer faction vibe. I can't find it now but they had a great music video with a group of guys doing coordinated moves in a room full of rockets and drones.
Anyways, as far as the ideology goes, they appear quite feudal from what I've read. They (apparently) believe that political power is an exclusive right to the descendants of Muhammad's grandchildren Hasan and Husain and their descendents (Zaidi Shiism). The second thing is belief in revolt against rulers based on jihad. The number of people who claim to be part of this core group number around 5-10 percent of the population (but they have more support than that) known as the Hashemites, and that includes the Houthi family too, which is how the movement is referred to in English but it's not just the Houthis, although the Houthis (Hussein and his son Abdul Malik) are at least visually centered in the movement's posters and iconography. The inspiration for all this goes back to the pre-republic Yemeni Imamate ruled by a Ziaidi Shia dynasty and other Hashemite families in northern Yemen.
They got downgraded after the 1962 revolution that established a Nasserist-inspired republic in the north backed by Egypt. But the Yemen Arab Republic also accomodated the Hashemites after they won and gave them jobs in the government. Then after Yemen reunited in the 1990s, a northern Yemeni general named Ali Abdullah Saleh became president and worked out a deal to support the Hashemites against the Islah Party, which leaned more toward Sunni Salafism, which allowed the Hashemites to get into the army and police. They have a vision of a rigid caste society. The Hashemites are the top; then there are Qadis (or "judges") who are aristocratic educated non-tribal and non-Hashemite families who make up the civil service and judiciary; then there are tribes who constitute the soldiers and farmers (largest group by population); and then is the Mazainah, or working class, who specialize in certain activities such as barbers or butchers; then there's the Muhamasheen (servants) at the bottom. But some sociologists apparently lump the last two together.
>>2234656>>2234657Sure, retardeds, Houthuis are fighting to bring a genuine socialist progressive revolution,
Keep being a retarded
>>2234701For the aesthetics-brained, there's also the Southern Transitional Council in Aden which flies the flag of the old Marxist PDRY. Critical support to the STC!!!!
Or maybe not.
One thing I was confused by is that the STC is in control of Aden but is also seperate from forces loyal to Hadi in the rest of non-Houthi Yemen? Is the UAE backing the STC and the Saudis backing Hadi's forces?
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