Stop blaming Yemen on the Saudis, this is ridiculous.
The Saudis could care less what goes on in Yemen and have shown through history they have zero imperial interest there.
But if there is instability there, causing violence to spill across the border - or worse - Iranian backed antagonists are actually attacking Saudi - then Saudi is forced to take action.
If there were no antagonist forces in Yemen threatening Saudi Arabia, then there would be zero Saudi Arabian military intervention.
Yemenis are not violent due to some arbitrary violence of Saudis, it's the other way around.
The truth is saundi arabia has been trying to control the region for awhile and started to lose control. Ask Quater if the Saudi's would try to influence or threaten a country for no reason other than having a brighter spotlight.
When the Saudi's tried to threaten Canada recently by pulling out investment and students you could see this was going to be a challenging year for them. Aside from open up space for other more deserving students in Canada the Saudis did little damage and changed the way the world started looking at them. We are seeing them fall further and further each month.
I say again: Saudi wants nothing to do with Yemen, and that they are personal and prickly with Qatar has nothing do do with anything.
When Yemen was peaceful, Saudi coexisted in peace with it.
As Iran tries to destabilize the region and antagonize Saudi Arabia by supplying weapons and support ... then it becomes a problem.
There are literally missiles flying over Riyadh, supplied by Iran.
Now who is trying to disrupt who?
"When the Saudi's tried to threaten Canada recently by pulling out investment and students you could see this was going to be a challenging year for them."
Again, it's stupid for Saudis - but this has nothing to do with anything.
Their childish relationship with Qatar and response to Canada means little.
Missiles over Riyadh supplied by Iran is essentially and act of war from Iran and they definitely should defend themselves.
Missiles didn't attack Riyadh until 2 years after the Saudi intervention, and after the cholera outbreak started and after the Saudi siege started killing civilians.
No huge argument with the intervention itself, but the indiscriminate harm to the civilian population is indefensible.
The Saudis have a lot of issues, but MBS seems to have made a lot of things worse.