Yemen war: economic swamp for Saudi and Emirati regimes

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A Yemeni protester holds up a sign showing the crossed-out faces of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (R) and his Emirati counterpart Mohamed bin Zayed (L) with a caption in Arabic reading "kill them, cross them, cast them into hell", with the defaced flags of Saudi Arabia (R) and the UAE (L) bearing slogans against them, at a protest against inflation and the rise of living costs in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taez on October 4, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

The killing machine was supposed to finish the job in Yemen within weeks in its first cross-border military invasion.

The adventurism initially code-named Operation Thunderstorm soon turned into the aggressors' litmus test for their potency and might.

Aggressors realized that they had bitten off more than they could chew. As time passed, the invaders hopes to triumph started to vanish.

Maybe the shortest assessment about Saudi and Emirati fiasco in Yemen was by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres explicitly saying, “This is a man-made crisis… it is a stupid war.


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