"What Is the UK Doing in Yemen?" Topic

"Yemen is the site a devastating civil war, in which foreign intervention at best is doing little to stem the violence – and at worst is making the situation worse. After mass protests broke across Yemen in February 2011, President Ali Abdullah Saleh was replaced by his deputy Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who oversaw a power-sharing government and the start of reforms. However, the situation deteriorated when Saleh formed an alliance with the Houthi rebels, a political movement dominated by Zaydi Shia Muslims, and forced Hadi out of the country. In defence of Hadi, a Saudi-led coalition began airstrikes against the Saleh-Houthi alliance in March 2015.

Britain, like the U.S., is intimately involved in the conflict. However, because it is providing capabilities to the Saudi-led coalition, rather than offering direct military engagement, public acknowledgement of this role is minimal. Until recently, the UK completely denied any presence in the country, despite reports that the UK was playing a "critical" role supporting U.S. drone strikes. While both countries now admit to being in the control rooms in Riyadh, it has maintained that it has no operational role. Instead, it is focussed on training "to make sure that countries actually do obey the norms of humanitarian law".

Provision of capabilities, unlike direct military engagement, is not subject to the same levels Parliamentary or public scrutiny, even when weapons and training are being provided to a party in an active conflict. In the UK, following the controversies surrounding Iraq and Afghanistan, it is now expected that Prime Ministers will publicly present the case for intervention before committing conventional troops to a conflict zone, as was the case in Syria. However, the Government has rejected calls for a debate over the UK's support of the Saudi-led coalition, especially with regards to weapons sales, even though those have gone through the roof since the bombing in Yemen started. While it seems clear that UK military assistance to Saudi Arabia is feeding directly into the crisis in Yemen, the British public remain largely unaware of the situation in the country…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Exactly zero chance of direct intervention.

What we're doing is helping co-ordinate air strikes and selling them billions in bombs.

Opposition to this is rising.

Not fishing for salmon, that's for sure.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Basically the West is engaging in vile hypocrisy to keep some defence CEO bonuses chugging along at maximum.

I can understand that my country that actually have no autonomous Foreign Policy is forced, like a serf, to let use to allied Aircraft bombing civilian populations in Yemen his bases..
But really i cannot understand how other countries, with a well defined autonomy of choice, like UK are supporting the disgusting régime of goat barbed faces of semi-illiterated sathraps and their tugs that are even allowed to lead Human Right Comission in UN despite the fact that their treatment of Human Rights , bombing of purposly choosen civilian targets in Yemen ecc.., should even forbid them to enter even in the toilets of such a International Organisation…