Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar has leaked details from a document on talks between Saudi officials and the US special envoy on their respective intentions in the Yemen War.
As the US understands it, the Saudis are very keen to end the Yemen War and leave “with dignity.” They are envisioning a step toward a transitional government in Yemen.
US Special Envoy Timothy Lenderking suggested that the US isn’t necessarily on board there, saying the US emphasized “the necessity of not leaving Yemen completely,” and that they want the Saudis to remain involved in Yemen to a similar extent as they were before the current war.
It’s not clear that’s going to work after seven years of war, as it has made clear the downside of Saudi meddling, and keeping them permanently involved seemingly just lays the groundwork for the next war. That the US is pushing this severely undercuts Biden’s talk of facilitating the war’s end.
As far as a transitional government being the way out of Yemen, that clearly could work, and has been a focus in past peace talks. The only reason this didn’t happen before was disagreements over the power-sharing structure of this government.
The tragedy of such an end is that it could’ve avoided the war entirely, as all the Houthis ever wanted was a move toward free elections and a new government, and it was only the insistence to try to keep President Hadi in power beyond his term in office, which ended 8 years ago, that led to the Saudi-led invasion.
Yeah… that’s not how war works.
Indeed, after killing and starving to death hundreds of thousands of people, dignity in retreat can be hard to maintain. Still, got to hope it works as an end to the war.
They cannot keep Yemen together. These were two countries and will remain two — no matter what US wants, Get back to old borders, North was ruled by Houthis before “unufication”, while South needs to sort out how to tmrun itself,
And if Soudis would keep Hadi in te South -/ he is a southerner after all — by all means sort things out therre.
Just keep North out of it — and independebt. Not tok hard,
Unlikely, southern separatism probably won’t get many supporters in the international community other than the UAE who think they can control it. There’s no need for it other than the wish to weaken Yemen overall. It would be politically unstable like what happened with South Sudan.
If that’s the case then they would’ve abandoned marib and went to negotiation, not forcing uae to unleash their salafi mercenaries to attack houti controlled areas. Probably just bull… to try to get offensive surface to ground missile from us
Who in the U.S. is trying to prolong this bloodshed?
blackrock is and they own everything.
Of course the Americans want the Saudis to stay in Yemen that gives the US the excuse to stay as well with yet another US Military Base
The words Saudis in Yemen and dignity should not be in the same sentence: massive contradiction.
Yeah I remember when President Nixon wanted out of Vietnam Nam with “dignity”. Or was it LBJ.. There is no dignity in false flag invasions, and the longer they last, the more difficult it becomes to make a dignified. exit…!!!
“With dignity” … the cry of the losing invader throughout the centuries.
Napoleon wanted to leave Russia with dignity in 1812 … did not work out too well for him, did it?
Peace with honor.
The US threw everythng and the kitchen sink at the Vietnemese and still had to leave in 1975
Saudis have finally had enough I guess
The Saudis never learned their lesson from the disaster of their previous adventure there in the 1960s
Mohammed bin Salman (off with their heads) Al Saud is a little like Nixon I guess.
Some people never learn
too late you saudi bastards have already proven to have no dignity
NEVER FORGET how this saudi yemen war started.. The saudis wanted to dig a canal across yemen to ship oil and avoid the straight of hormuz.. the yemeni govt said no thanks, the saudis insisted, the yemeni’s said get stuffed.. Then the saudi’s attacked yemen in an attempt to topple the yemen government or at least make them capitulate with the saudis demands..