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Someone's going to have to provide me with an explainer of how many different proxy forces are involved in Yemen. I can barely keep up with Lebanon and have for
by pjc50 6mo ago
Someone's going to have to provide me with an explainer of how many different proxy forces are involved in Yemen. I can barely keep up with Lebanon and have forgotten Syria.
- bawolff 6mo agoI think there are only 3. Houthis (iran), PLC (saudi), and STC (UAE). I guess Al-Qaeda and Isis are also there.
- renticulous 6mo agoOn whose side is Turkey? Or is it charting its own path?
- 21asdffdsa12 6mo ago[flagged]
- za3faran 6mo agoNo it doesn't.
- Cyph0n 6mo agoIt’s doing its own thing, mainly in Syria, Libya, and Somalia afaik.
- wombatpm 6mo agoTurkey’s main goal is preventing the establishment of a Kurdish state for fear of losing it’s Kurdish region.
- boringg 6mo agoBest of luck! These proxy wars have existed since the days of Assyria. 3000 years and running. Kind of depressing thought actually.
- nradov 6mo ago[dead]
- anonymars 6mo ago> Kind of depressing thought actually I gotchu: https://youtu.be/-evIyrrjTTY https://youtu.be/-evIyrrjTTY ("This Land is Mine", 3 min)
- dansmith1919 6mo agoFinally, a history video I fully understand
- frm88 6mo agoBrilliant video. Thank you.
- dgb23 6mo agoI tried to make sense of middle eastern politics once. My conclusion has been „It’s complicated.“
- hackeraccount 6mo agoI'd go to you for information before I'd go to the people who say, "It's really all pretty simple..."
- Koffiepoeder 6mo agoReminds me of this (by now completely outdated) middle east friendship chart I once came across. [0]: https://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/07/17/the_middle_east_friendship_chart.html https://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/07/17/the_middle...
- DANmode 6mo agoYes - but complicated by what.
- mmooss 6mo ago
- ReptileMan 6mo agoIn the Middle East everyone fights with everyone else and everyone is in covert or open alliance with everyone else. Simultaneously.
- trollbridge 6mo agoAnd for extra fun, the U.S. sometimes likes to jump into the fray.
- Cyph0n 6mo agoSometimes?
- missingua 6mo agoEvery ~10 year or so. As opposed to the locals who experience it daily, either war or the conflicts-between-wars.
- appointment 6mo agoThe US has been doing air strikes in the Middle East on a regular basis since ~1990, and they extensively support the military adventures of allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia.
- Ladioss 6mo agoThe US is more of a bouncer on behalf of Israel than anything else, really.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> an explainer of how many different proxy forces are involved in Yemen RealLifeLore has been doing a decent job covering it [1]. The broad summary is you have the Saudi-backed unity government, the Iranian-backed Houthis, who claim all of Yemen but practically want North Yemen, and the UAE-backed STC, who also claim all of Yemen but practically want South Yemen. Emiratis bring the Israelis to the party. The Iranians bring the Russians. The Saudis bring various international elements (I know less about them than the Houthis and STC). [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IgD7zmJN3_A&pp=0gcJCVACo7VqN5tD https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IgD7zmJN3_A&pp=0gcJCVACo7VqN5t...
- Raed667 6mo agoJohnny Harris has a pretty decent video on the topic as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsO-rULEfrk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsO-rULEfrk
- nakedrobot2 6mo agoJohnny Harris is astoundingly wrong about most things, so I'll skip it thanks
- samschooler 6mo agoDo you have a reputable sources to back up your claims here? Johnny cites sources pretty consistently.
- michaelt 6mo agohttps://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/many-mistakes-johnny-harris https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health-a... > The quick cuts and dazzling montages, as well as the dramatic shots of Harris absorbed by a document he’s unearthed, highlighting it suspensefully in tight close-ups, all lend credence to the often-excellent work he does. But it also makes it easy to mask his mistakes. And for someone who takes journalism to heart, his mistakes are big, leading to oversimplification and an occasional lapse in skepticism. [...] > In a video that garnered 8.5 million views and which Harris thumbnailed with the words “WE HAVE PROOF,” Harris explores the recent craze over UFO sightings—sorry, UAP sightings, meaning unexplained anomalous phenomena. In passing, he mentions Mick West, who has done excellent work debunking a lot of blurry footage of what is alleged to be high-tech spy drones or aliens. > But the bulk of the video is spent leering at report after report—a total of 144 are being investigated by the U.S. government right now!—while original music amps up the mystery. The emphasis on evidence over context is key to Harris’ style: flood the space with visuals that keep your attention and elicit questions and only occasionally pull back to explain.