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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #25 on: March 26, 2015, 01:27:43 PM »

Egypt and SA planning a ground intervention. It seems Sisi is trying to pull Nasser with his new Saudi sugar daddies funding

Egypt to be involved in the ground invasion as well? As a wise man once said, sh!t just got real.
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« Reply #26 on: March 26, 2015, 01:36:24 PM »

"It is hard to get into Yemen, it is impossible to get out"

- Ottoman saying
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« Reply #27 on: March 26, 2015, 01:44:44 PM »

Geopolitics 101: If Side A intervenes against Side B, who is fighting against Side C, that does not mean Side A has sided with Side C. They are simply attacking Side B, which may be of help to Side C, but doesn't mean actual support/alliance.

This claim has even less substance than the Syria thing, given nobody has cared about Yemen in the past 200 years.
Then don't finksing attack side B if side C is worse than side B.
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« Reply #28 on: March 26, 2015, 03:41:20 PM »

The Saudi side basically is the South Yemen independence movement, it's an Aden based government headed by a former Communist (Hadi).
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« Reply #29 on: March 26, 2015, 03:42:15 PM »

Saudi Arabia is the Monsanto of countries: You want to think many times before you consider being on their side.
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« Reply #30 on: March 26, 2015, 03:55:52 PM »

"It is hard to get into Yemen, it is impossible to get out"

- Ottoman saying
Also hard to get Yemen out...I say this as a victim of far too many intensive Yemenite breakfasts Tongue
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« Reply #31 on: March 26, 2015, 06:46:48 PM »
« Edited: March 26, 2015, 06:48:33 PM by Frodo »

The ten countries in the Saudi-led coalition are:
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Bahrain
Jordan
Egypt
Sudan
Morocco
Pakistan

Oman being a notable exception, especially considering it's right next door...  

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« Reply #32 on: March 26, 2015, 06:52:42 PM »
« Edited: March 26, 2015, 07:40:19 PM by BaconBacon96 »

Oman are clever not to get involved in this regional conflict.
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« Reply #33 on: March 26, 2015, 06:53:39 PM »

Probably because Oman isn't Sunni. They're their own weird branch of Islam called Ibadi. They aren't Shiites but they probably sympathize with the Yemeni Shiites who are particularly heterodox.
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« Reply #34 on: March 26, 2015, 07:19:25 PM »

Oman is the chillest country in the whole region, seriously:

-Not overtly ideological/run by lunatics
-(Relatively) prosperous and stable
-Had protests in the Arab Spring but they blew over w/o much fuss
-Lenient compared to its neighbors on homosexuality (fines/up to 3 yrs. in prison)
-Lack of widespread "guest work"/slavery unlike Qatar or UAE (that I know of)
-Has the sense to not join Saudi's mad endeavor

Etc. etc..
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« Reply #35 on: March 26, 2015, 07:34:23 PM »

I have no idea who we should be rooting for. Probably neither.

I'm personally backing the South Yemeni independence rebels.

Would dividing Yemen back into North and South be that bad a thing?

Yes it would. Now East and West, that would make more sense.
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« Reply #36 on: March 26, 2015, 09:56:54 PM »

How many Arab-majority countries are currently *not* involved in any wars?
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« Reply #37 on: March 26, 2015, 10:04:46 PM »

How many Arab-majority countries are currently *not* involved in any wars?

Oman, Algeria and Tunisia
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« Reply #38 on: March 26, 2015, 10:09:05 PM »

I have no idea who we should be rooting for. Probably neither.

I'm personally backing the South Yemeni independence rebels.

Would dividing Yemen back into North and South be that bad a thing?

Yes it would. Now East and West, that would make more sense.

What? Based on what? North/South is the same as Shiite/Sunni, Sanaa/Aden. What would an east/west divide be based on?
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« Reply #39 on: March 27, 2015, 11:45:59 AM »

Of those ten countries, the only significant ones that are close enough and powerful enough to be relevant are S. Arabia and Egypt. Pakistan is too far away and the Gulf States can provide financial support, but KSA and Egypt would do the heavy lifting.

Honestly I like the Houthis' chances of holding Yemen unless Egypt is serious about helping the Saudis in more than a token way.
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« Reply #40 on: March 28, 2015, 03:27:19 PM »

I have no idea who we should be rooting for. Probably neither.

I'm personally backing the South Yemeni independence rebels.

Would dividing Yemen back into North and South be that bad a thing?

Yes it would. Now East and West, that would make more sense.

What? Based on what? North/South is the same as Shiite/Sunni, Sanaa/Aden. What would an east/west divide be based on?

I'm just referring to that North and South Yemen really had the wrong directions as their names.
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« Reply #41 on: March 28, 2015, 03:32:11 PM »

I have no idea who we should be rooting for. Probably neither.

I'm personally backing the South Yemeni independence rebels.

Would dividing Yemen back into North and South be that bad a thing?

Yes it would. Now East and West, that would make more sense.

What? Based on what? North/South is the same as Shiite/Sunni, Sanaa/Aden. What would an east/west divide be based on?

I'm just referring to that North and South Yemen really had the wrong directions as their names.

Aden was in the far south and in the western part of the country and everything else in South Yemen didn't matter much.
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« Reply #42 on: March 28, 2015, 03:39:57 PM »
« Edited: March 28, 2015, 03:58:20 PM by Charlotte Hebdo »

Thought we might as well have a map or two:



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« Reply #43 on: March 28, 2015, 03:53:48 PM »
« Edited: March 28, 2015, 03:56:55 PM by Charlotte Hebdo »

There is also the fact that it is the western part of the country that is the actual Yemen (traditionally divided into upper and lower).

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« Reply #44 on: March 28, 2015, 06:59:58 PM »

We can still call South Yemen "Hadramaut"? Then excellent, let's split it up again- after all it just came into existence in 1991.
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« Reply #45 on: March 28, 2015, 07:02:30 PM »

We can still call South Yemen "Hadramawt"? Then excellent, let's split it up again- after all it just came into existence in 1991.


Not the Aden area.
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« Reply #46 on: March 28, 2015, 07:09:32 PM »

Why is Morocco involved?
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« Reply #47 on: March 28, 2015, 08:16:00 PM »


Because it's a Sunni monarchy, presumably.
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« Reply #48 on: March 29, 2015, 05:53:04 AM »

Egypt and SA planning a ground intervention. It seems Sisi is trying to pull Nasser with his new Saudi sugar daddies funding

Sisi is such a tool.
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« Reply #49 on: March 29, 2015, 05:55:52 AM »

Probably because Oman isn't Sunni. They're their own weird branch of Islam called Ibadi. They aren't Shiites but they probably sympathize with the Yemeni Shiites who are particularly heterodox.

Ibadis are neither Sunni nor Shia, actually predating the split. They have evolved from the Khawarij movement, though they came a long way from their fanaticism.

They're a dominant school of Islam in Oman and Zanzibar and also have some limited presence in severeal of North African countries.
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