Saudi Arabia pushing super powers towards another world war: Pundit

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mnar Muhawesh, the founder of mintpressnews.com from Minneapolis, to discuss a warning by Stephen O'Brien, the UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, about a humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen caused by Saudi Arabia's airstrikes against the impoverished country.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: We have heard the numbers being recited there by Stephen O'Brien of course when it comes to Yemen. It is almost eleven months since the aggression started and the civilian casualties have been mounting. Concerns have been expressed of the humanitarian situation. However, nothing has been done.

Muhawesh: Exactly. This statement released by the UN is really nice on paper and it is nice to hear but it is too late. For over a year, Saudi Arabia has engaged in a very deadly offensive against Yemen, which is one of the most impoverished nations in the world, and I am sure the Yemeni people have been wondering where the international community has been and why they have been so silent when Saudi Arabia has been starving them and bombing the hospitals like the MSF hospital that they bombed since the beginning of this offensive, leaving millions of children hungry. With Saudi Arabia heading the UN’s human rights council, we cannot really expect real significant action from the UN itself. In fact, Saudi Arabia is completely out of control and acting like a baby on a tantrum that bites or in this case bombs when it does not get what it wants. We are seeing this policy in Syria where the international community has been blaming the government rather than rebels and now this policy that Saudis have taken which is violence and funding weapons of Jihadists and spreading their extremist ideology and basically bombing and meddling in other nations’ affairs is really a sign of desperation to legitimize itself and we cannot expect the international community to do anything about it.

Press TV: I like to pick up on that point, as far as the Saudi policies within the region go, what kind of results has Saudi Arabia seen for it to continue with this policy? Has it seen any tangible success?

Muhawesh: I think if we just look at what is happening inside Syria, if we look at what is happening inside Yemen and look at just the chaos that Saudi Arabia has fomented across the region I would say that this policy has absolutely failed. The way they are acting like I said is completely out of desperation to legitimize themselves. They are really acting like a big baby who does not know what to do next. It is depleting Saudi Arabia’s military might and its economy. It is leaving thousands of innocent lives dead and millions are standing up to resist any Saudi involvement in their nations and it is dragging the international community into a World War III scenario that nobody wants and very soon Saudi Arabia will have to fight its own war, I mean from the sidelines funneling weapon to these jihadist groups and to these dictators. But very soon it is going to have to stand up and face countries like Iran and Russia and countries like Syria and I think that this policy is failing and I think with IMF predicting that the Saudi economy will collapse in 2020, I think that this is the Saudis’ end.   

Press TV: Considering that Saudi Arabia’s policies are irrational, doesn’t it make it more dangerous specifically when it is being supported by the US and being funneled weapons by Britain, the US, etc?

Muhawesh: Of course. NATO is partially responsible for Saudi wars in the region. Saudi Arabia is a creation of the British, it is a colonial state created by the British and being basically legitimized by countries like the United States, France and Britain and so without any of these weapons, without this military industrial complex that the Western nations engage in and this funneling of weapons and money into the region for these wars, Saudi Arabia would see any success but that soon too will come to an end because like I said before Saudi Arabia is pulling the region into a World War III scenario where even the US will have to stand up to countries and world powers like Russia and I don’t think that the international community wants to see that happen.    

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