By Thursday evening it had appeared the Houthis had successfully taken the important southern port city of Aden, but the remnants of forces loyal to former President Hadi have struck back and retaken the center of the city today.
The gains for the Hadi remnants came after Saudi forces air-dropped new weaponry to them, and they were fairly quickly able to drive the Houthis out of the presidential palace and the central district.
The value of Aden means this is far from a resolved battle, of course, and one should expect the Houthis to rush more reinforcements into the southern city from their strongholds in the far north.
The airdrops are a change in pace for the Saudi war, which up until today has focused on airstrikes, causing substantial civilian casualties. It is unclear, however, how much of a remnant force Hadi has left, and the influx of weapons can only take them so far.
The Houta Army win the Civil War fair and square, so they should form a democracy and hold elections. Comes now a most perfect Constitution:
Yemen Constitution
(1) No one shall enrich themselves upon the misery of those in a lower class.
(2) Elections shall be funded by taxes.
(3) At least a forth of the nation’s wealth shall be passed on down to the laboring-class lower half of society. If this law is broken, then everyone in the upper half of society shall not be allowed to vote for a period of five years.
No surprise that the US played a role in blowing up another country in the Middle East. The neocons and neoliberals must be licking their chops over more destruction and death, more rivers of blood, more money in their pockets. Since 1990 millions dead by their hand is not enough.
This Easter they will go to church with their families when they should be driven out of the Church to remove their evil stench.