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International reactions to the 2015 military intervention in Yemen

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Saudi Arabia began carrying out airstrikes in neighbouring Yemen on 25 March 2015, heralding the start of a military intervention in Yemen, codenamed Operation Decisive Storm[13] (Arabic: عملية عاصفة الحزم). The intervention began in response to requests for assistance from the internationally recognized but domestically contested Yemeni government of Yemeni President Hadi, due to a Houthi offensive aimed at its provisional capital of Aden. President Hadi fled Aden,[32] left the country and went to Saudi Arabia as Saudi Arabia and its allies launched airstrikes in Yemen against the Houthis and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was deposed in the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings.[33]
Warplanes from Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain are also taking part in the operation. In addition, Egypt and Sudan have said they will commit ground troops in Saudi Arabia. Somalia has made its airspace, territorial waters, and military bases available for the coalition to use.[7] The United States has provided intelligence and logistical support, including search-and-rescue for downed coalition pilots,[8] and accelerated the sale of weapons to coalition states.[34] US PresidentObama has formed a Joint Planning Cell to liaise with Saudi Arabia and coordinate "logistical and intelligence support".[35] Pakistan was also called on by Saudi Arabia to join the coalition, but decided to maintain neutrality.[36]
Main article: 2015 military intervention in Yemen
International reactions to the 2015 military intervention in Yemen were mixed. Most other Arab League nations and several Westerngovernments backed the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition, but other governments warned against an escalation in the violent situation in Yemen.

Political responses and commentary[edit]

Supranational[edit]

  •  Arab League — Delegates to the Arab League voted to study the formation of a joint military force on 29 March, days after the intervention in Yemen began. Secretary-General Naril Elaraby affirmed that the intervention would "continue until Houthi militias withdraw and submit their weapons" and asserted that the international operation was necessary.[1]
  •  European Union — The European Union criticized the military intervention. It suggested that military intervention would not solve the crisis and expressed concern about the "serious regional repercussions" after the Saudi military intervention in Yemen, describing that this move is not a solution, urging regional powers to "act responsibly". European Union reiterates its support for all efforts by the United Nations.[2][3]
  •  United Nations — Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq said the UN is "looking into more details", adding that the UN does not believe in military actions to resolve the Yemeni conflict.[5] Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, warned that Yemen appeared to be verging on "total collapse". He expressed concern about civilian casualties, including those apparently caused by a Saudiairstrike on a camp for displaced persons in northern Yemen.[6] Russia called an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Councilfor 4 April to discuss calling for "humanitarian pauses" in the airstrikes.[7]

National[edit]

  •  Algeria – Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ramtane Lamamra expressed "very great and deep concern" about the events in Yemen and said the "escalation of violence" would only make the situation worse.[9] Lamamra reportedly presented a ceasefire initiative at an Arab League summit in Egypt calling for the Houthis to withdraw from Sana'a and the Yemeni House of Representatives to resume meeting in exchange for an end to the bombing campaign and security guarantees for the Houthis and their allies.[10]
  •  Bangladesh — The Foreign ministry said in a statement that Bangladesh deplored acts of violence perpetrated by Houthis on the peopleof Yemen "resulting in humanitarian crisis." "Bangladesh supports all efforts led by Saudi Arabia in restoring the legitimate state authority and realisation of aspirations of the people of Yemen, as well as upholding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yemen,” it said. Bangladesh also urged for resumption of political process guided by the commitment made by the parties within the Gulf Cooperation Council Framework, the National Dialogue Conference outcomes and relevant UN Security Council resolutions.[11]
  •  Canada – On 27 March, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson issued a statement on the situation in Yemen, saying “Canada supports the military action by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC] partners and others to defend Saudi Arabia’s border and to protect Yemen’s recognized government at the request of the Yemeni president."[12]
  •  China — The Chinese government expressed deep concern over the situation in Yemen. It urged instead all parties to resolve the dispute through dialogue.[13]
  •  Djibouti - Djibouti supports foreign military intervention in Yemen and is prepared to help evacuate its nationals if the security situation there deteriorates, said Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf. Youssouf warned on 2 April that the Houthis had installed heavy weapons on islands in the Bab al-Mandeb strait, and he urged coalition forces to remove them, saying they endangered Djibouti and international shipping.[14]
  •  Eritrea — In a statement, the Eritrean Foreign Ministry said it viewed the Yemeni crisis "as an internal matter". Eritrea denied allegations that it provided support to the Houthis.[15]
  •  Ethiopia — Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said his country stands with Sudan, a neighbour and member of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. He said the intervention was justified to protect the Yemeni government and defeat the Houthis.[16]
  •  France — According to the Saudi newspaper Arab News, the French Embassy in Riyadh released a statement reiterating its support of Hadi's government and concluding, "France stands by its partners in the region to restore stability and unity of Yemen."[17]
  •  Germany — Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, said he "can understand" Saudi Arabia's decision to mount a military intervention and acknowledged the operation had "support from the region" and was at Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi's request. However, he said the crisis could not be solved by violence and urged a negotiated solution.[18]
  •  Indonesia — Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin expressed concerns over the military intervention and hoped that it will end soon and wouldn't worsen.[19]
  •  Iran — Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called the military intervention a "dangerous development which will destabilize a region",[20] and the Foreign Ministry demanded an immediate halt on all "military aggressions" in Yemen,[21] Iran described and warned that Riyadh was taking a 'dangerous step'.[22] making clear that the Saudi deployment of a Sunni coalition against Shi'ite enemies would complicate efforts to end a conflict likely to inflame the sectarian animosities fuelling wars around the Middle East. A senior official said military intervention in Yemen is not an option for Tehran.[23] “We demand an immediate stop to the Saudi military operations in Yemen,” Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an interview with Iran's Arabic-language al-Alam news network on Thursday, according to Press TV.[24][25]According to Iran's official news agency, Iran's deputy foreign minister has asked Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary General, to do everything possible to immediately halt Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen.[26]
  •  Lebanon – Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam's reaction to the intervention was described by Beirut-based newspaper The Daily Star as "ambiguous". Salam said at an Arab League summit on 28 March that Lebanon backs "any Arab stance that preserves Yemen’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in addition to the cohesion of its social fabric". He also asked the Arab League not to involve Lebanon in any "regional struggles", an apparent reference to the conflict.[34]
    • Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, in a 27 March speech strongly censured Saudi Arabia for its "aggression" against Yemen. He claimed that Saudis decided to invade Yemen because they realized they were losing their influence and control over the country. He praised Iran for "respecting the will of the regions people" and "sympathizing with their causes." He further accused Saudi Arabia of betraying the struggle against Israel as the main Arab cause.[35] Nasrallah said Hezbollah would have joined the fight if it were against Israel, rather than Arabs.[36][37]
    • Saad Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon, praised Saudi King Salman for what he described as his “wise and brave” decision for military operation against the Houthi rebels. He blamed Iran’s intervention in regional conflicts for the current turmoil in the region and supported Saudi Arabia for uniting the Arabs by the action it is carrying out in Yemen.[38]
  •  Oman — Despite being member of Gulf Cooperation Council, Oman has decided not to join the coalition, but providing humanitarian aid to Yemenis.[40][41]
  •  Palestine — The Palestinian National Authority announced their support of what they called the Arab coalition and said a similar coalition should be created against Hamas who it claimed had illegally taken over the Gaza Strip during a 2007 coup.[63]
    • Flag of Hamas.svg Hamas — On 30 March Hamas announced its support of the Saudi-led coalition.[64]
  •  Russia — President Vladimir Putin sent a letter to the Arab League calling for an "immediate cessation of military activities" in Yemen. The Kremlin also recommended increased efforts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis.[65]
  •  Somalia — President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud indicated that the Federal Government of Somalia supported the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen. In response to calls from President of Yemen Abd Rabbuh Mansur for a collective counter-insurgency effort on the part of the Arab League states, Mohamud also noted that the nation would continue to stand by the Yemeni government.[66] Foreign Minister of Somalia Abdisalam Omer likewise reiterated his administration's support for the legitimacy of Yemen's incumbent government.[67] He also officially confirmed that the Somali federal government had permitted the coalition to use Somalia's airspace, territorial waters and land.[68] It likewise offered to share its stabilization-related experience with the Saudi-led forces.[69] The approval came after Somalia had leased its airspace to the Gulf states, with Bosaso in the northeast and Berbera in the northwest scheduled to be used by the coalition forces due to their proximity to Yemen.[70]
    •  Somaliland — The separatist administration of the Somaliland autonomous region in northwestern Somalia objected to the Somali federal government's decision, arguing that it was an "independent" administration and that the waters fell under its jurisdiction.[71]
  •  Syria — The Syrian Foreign Ministry expressed "deep" concern over the situation in Yemen. While Syria stressed the need to respect the sovereignty of Yemen and its independence, it called on all Yemeni parties to embark on a dialogue to reach a political solution that meets the aspirations and will of the Yemeni people.[72]
    • Syria Syrian National Coalition — The Syrian opposition group called the intervention in Yemen "a sound and deterrent step", suggesting it opened the door to a broader intervention against Iranian influence elsewhere in the Arab world. In addition to supporting the Houthis, Iran is a major backer of the Syrian government.[73]
  •  Tunisia — Foreign Minister in a press statement said they're concerned about the serious developments in Yemen and urged for dialogues.[74]
  •  Turkey — President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Turkey supported the Saudi-led military operation in Yemen. He also criticised Iran's regional ambitions in both Yemen and Iraq.[75] However, in a joint meeting between Iran and Turkey, both nations agreed that a political situation is needed in Yemen, despite being on opposing sides of the conflict.[76]
  •  United Kingdom — The Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced support for the Saudi decision to intervene military in Yemen "following president Hadi's request for support". However the UK will not be providing military support, they also pledged to continue aid to Yemen.[77]
  •  United States — A National Security Council spokeswoman said the US would work jointly with Saudi Arabia to provide military and intelligence support while not participating in "direct military action".[78] President Obama declared that he had authorized US forces to provide logistical and intelligence support to the operation against Houthis as a "Joint Planning Cell' with Saudi Arabia.[79] US support has included UAV video feeds to aid Saudi airstrike targeting, refueling of Saudi fighter aircraft, and search-and-rescue support in the Gulf of Aden.[80]

Others[edit]

  • Red Cross — The International Committee of the Red Cross is worried by the recent escalation of violence in Yemen and expressed concern on March 26 at reports of civilian casualties following air strikes in the capital Sana'a and other parts of the country. Edric Schweizer, head of the ICRC delegation in Yemen, told "All parties involved in the current round of violence are bound by the rules governing the conduct of hostilities."[82]
  • International Crisis Group — The ICG concluded in a 27 March briefing that action by UNSC to observe prompt truce with the aim of restoring the suspended negotiations was needed. The ICG has also recommended priorities for negotiations, namely having Saudi Arabia persuade Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to give up power and holding talks in neutral Oman.[83]

Evacuations and other actions[edit]

The Royal Saudi Navy evacuated diplomats and United Nations staff from Aden to Jeddah on 28 March.[84]
Pakistan dispatched two special PIA flights to evacuate some 500 stranded Pakistanis on 29 March 2015.[85] Several UN staff members and Arab diplomats were also evacuated following the airstrikes.[86]
The Indian government responded by deploying ships and planes to Yemen to evacuate stranded Indians. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj told that since all the airports in Yemen were closed, the plan was to bring people to the neighbouring country of Djibouti by vessel and from there to India via aircraft.[87] India began evacuating hundreds of its citizens on 2 April, via a commercial liner docked in Aden port.[88] An air evacuation of Indian nationals from Sana'a to Djibouti was carried out on 3 April, after the Indian government obtained permission to land two Airbus A320sat the airport.[89] The Indian Armed Forces carried out rescue operation codenamed Operation Raahat and evacuated more than 4000 Indian citizens along with 409 foreign nationals belonged to 32 countries. The operation ended on 8 April 2015.[90][91][92][93]
A Chinese missile frigate docked in Aden on 29 March to evacuate Chinese nationals from Yemen.[94] The ship reportedly deployed soldiers ashore on 2 April to guard the evacuation of civilians from the city.[95] The Chinese frigate evacuated 225 foreign citizens from 10 different countries in what Reuters described as "the first time that China's military has helped other countries evacuate their people during an international crisis". China also evacuated 571 of its own nationals and eight foreigners who worked for Chinese companies in Yemen.[96]
The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said it would airlift its citizens out of Yemen if they requested to be evacuated.[97] There were reportedly more than 50,000 Ethiopian nationals living and working in Yemen at the outbreak of hostilities.[16]
Malaysia also planned to evacuate its 879 citizens from Yemen, according to Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman, but it was unclear whether they would be moved out by air or land.[98]

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Finian CUNNINGHAM 
| 09.04.2015 | 00:00

Reading the Western news media is like swimming in a goldfish bowl. News one day gives way to some other transient story the next, and so on and on. With the result that if one were to rely on the Western media for understanding on any particular issue, there is faint chance of proper assimilation. This is because there is typically negligible context, perspective or continuity – as well as, of course, misleading spin and outright disinformation.
To illustrate: one of the most bizarre – unwittingly bizarre – recent news reports was how US Secretary of State John Kerry made an urgent call to Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Kerry reportedly needed Lavrov for help in clinching a breakthrough in the deadlocked nuclear negotiations with Iran. 
For almost a week in Lausanne, Switzerland, America’s chief diplomat had been engaged in one-on-one talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif in order to arrive at a «preliminary agreement» in the P5+1 forum.
Then the foreign ministers from the other P5+1 group – Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia arrived at the Lake Geneva resort to add some push for achieving the framework accord. But of all the P5+1 representatives, it was Russia’s Sergei Lavrov whom Kerry reportedly turned to in order to add pivotal influence. 
US State Department spokesperson Marie Harf even singled out Lavrov with praise for his personal help and expertise during the fraught Lausanne talks.
In the end, the long-running nuclear dispute is still far from resolved and negotiations will roll on to the next deadline set for the beginning of July… and who knows after that?
But let’s rewind here a moment. At Lausanne, according to the Western media’s own reports, Washington called on Moscow in particular, to help snatch what President Obama subsequently hailed as a «diplomatic triumph» and «historic agreement» in US-Iranian relations. 
Now hold that thought. This is the same Moscow whom the West has spent the most part of the past 12 months demonising and vilifying over the Ukraine crisis, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of land-grabbing and threatening the entire security of Europe – if not the world. 
American President Barack Obama, you will recall, at the United Nations General Assembly last year publicly branded Russia and its alleged annexation of Crimea as being one of three major global security concerns, along with Islamic State terrorism and the outbreak of Ebola disease in West Africa. How’s that for audacious American impudence and provocation towards Russia?
The White House’s top diplomat John Kerry has also over the past year managed to fluently garble and make a mockery of historical facts to slander Vladimir Putin for behaving like a «20th Century dictator» who is trying to change country borders down the «barrel of a gun». 
Washington has proceeded on the back of that calumny to unleash a barrage of economic and diplomatic sanctions against Russia, and it has goaded the European Union to follow suit – all on the basis of unproven, sensationalist allegations about Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine conflict. 
At Washington’s behest, the NATO military alliance has redoubled its already sizeable loitering on Russia’s border over the past year – in flagrant contravention of previous treaties. 

Currently, the US is leading the biggest NATO war manoeuvres ever in Europe under the rubric of Operation Atlantic Resolve, which comprises tens of thousands of troops, warplanes, tanks, anti-ballistic missiles and warships on offensive drills pointed at Russia – stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. 

 Naturally, and reasonably, Moscow has responded by staging major defensive military manoeuvres within its own territory, from the Arctic to the Steppes to Siberia.
Considering this unprecedented propaganda, economic and military aggression that the US and its Western allies are projecting at Russia it is not an exaggeration to say that a form of American-led «hybrid war» is being waged at full pelt. 
Added to these offensive measures is the vast support given to the reactionary Neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, which is openly persecuting ethnic Russians through bans on language and culture, as well as proposing mass detention centres for «terror suspects». 
On top of billions of dollars in financial aid, courtesy of expropriated Western taxpayer money, this month the US has begun delivery of hundreds of armed military Humvees to Kiev which are to be deployed in the Donbas conflict zone. This intervention by the US will undermine the fragile Minsk ceasefire that was worked out in mid-February under the aegis of Moscow, Berlin and Paris, thus inciting more violence on Russia’s western border. 
The Americans are also slated to supply up to $1 billion-worth of lethal munitions in the forthcoming Pentagon budget, as well as sending 300 military trainers this month to join Kiev’s notorious National Guard units. These Nazi SS-styled units have been reported carrying out systematic human rights violations against the ethnic Russian population of the Donetsk and Luhansk self-proclaimed republics since the Western-backed Kiev regime launched its so-called anti-terror operation on eastern Ukraine last year. More than 6,000 people have been killed in that onslaught, most of them civilians. Over one million have been turned into refugees at great expense to Russia’s humanitarian efforts. 
Yet, mind-bogglingly, amid this insane climate of Washington-driven hostility towards Russia, John Kerry appeals to Sergei Lavrov to pull him out of a diplomatic hole over the Iranian nuclear dispute. 
Only the brainwashed, bamboozling Western mindset could get away with such an astounding feat of double-think and arrogance. In the blink of an eye, Russia is portrayed as a Hitlerian threat to world security, and then in the next blink, it is called upon as a «partner» to resolve the nuclear impasse with Iran. 
The irony of Western-sanctioned Moscow being enlisted by Washington to assist in a deal supposedly aimed at lifting Western sanctions off Tehran is beyond hilarious. It either shows that the Western demonisation of Russia is, at bottom, groundless and disingenuous, or that Western blind arrogance is crass beyond words.
Sergei Lavrov is a consummate diplomat, probably the best there is in the world. His skills in negotiating thorny issues is proven, as for example over the Syrian chemical weapons debacle at the end of 2013, which prevented another US war in the Middle East. Lavrov stands head-and-shoulders above John Kerry and his lightweight British, French and German counterparts. The Russian diplomat is cultured and urbane, with a depth of historical and political understanding of world affairs that dwarfs his Western opposites. But maybe it’s time the kid-gloves came off to put these conceited Western wise-guys in their place.
Russia together with China could jointly make a very public call on the never-ending nuclear wrangle. 
Despite the recent Lausanne «accord» it seems that this merry-go-round is going to keep spinning beyond the supposed June 30 deadline – largely because of Washington’s mercurial «interpretation» of what defines Iranian compliance. Obama’s latest talk this week about sanctions relief for Iran being «phased in» over 10-15 years does not bode well for an orderly, peaceful resolution in the next three months. 
If the Western powers are the ones who are impeding a final settlement to the nuclear standoff – and the hunch is that they are the guilty ones – then they need and deserve to be called out. The decades-long Western-imposed embargo on Iran over its alleged, but unfounded, nuclear ambitions has gone on for far too long. It is not just a matter of justice for the long-suffering Iranian people; the longer this dispute continues without a reasonable, mutual ending, the more risk there is that the rightwing crazies in Washington and their gung-ho Israeli clients will eventually instigate the war that they are feverishly itching for. 
Russia and China could turn the political tables on Washington and its Western minions by declaring which party to the nuclear row is the definitive problem. World public opinion and shame will also follow suit and add pressure to bring this dangerous standoff to an end. Even at it is, the majority of the American public are in favour of cutting a final deal with Iran, according to a recent poll by the Washington Post. That number would increase if Americans knew that it was their so-called leaders in Washington who are forestalling a full agreement for no reasonable reason other than playing Western power-politics with Iran or pandering to the Israeli and Saudi lobby. 
Washington seems to think it can treat Moscow, and Beijing, like a play-thing. On one hand, issuing threats, waging aggression and slapping on sanctions over baseless accusations; then on the other hand Washington makes «friendly» phone calls when it finds itself in a diplomatic jam. Russia certainly owes Washington no such favours given the pillorying it has been subjected to over the past year. 
What Washington needs is a severe reality-check about its own hypocrisy, double-think and duplicity. Naming and shaming over the Iranian nuclear debacle will call out who just is the real pariah and who is the real partner to world peace. 
Source:http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/04/09/partner-opariah-kerry-calls-lavrov-for-help.html
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Yemen/Iran/Lausanne: Washington To Take Advantage and Engage Iran in Transatlantic Projects as an Instrument in the Energy War Against Russia.

War in Yemen: Historic Prerequisites and Geopolitical Aspects (I)

Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 09.04.2015 | 00:00

It is generally considered that bloody Russian-Turkish wars, the insurgencies in the Balkans and the contradictions in Europe that led to WWI made the Ottoman Empire collapse. Generally speaking it’s true. But there was another factor to influence the process. Diplomatic reports from Istanbul coming to Europe before the war informed about the situation in the Balkans and Yemen. The abrupt deterioration of the situation in Yemen directly threatened the interests of great powers – Great Britain and Germany. 
The Yemeni territories making up part of the Ottoman Empire to great extent enjoyed self-rule and were also governed by Imam of Sana. The Imam led the most massive rebellion against the Ottoman Empire that lasted till WWI. Helmuth Johann Ludwig von Moltke, also known as Moltke the Younger, Chief of German General Staff, told his Austrian counterpart Franz Xaver Joseph Conrad Graf von Hötzendorf that Turkey was too weak to be considered as a military force to reckon with. According to him, previously it had been called a sick man of Europe, now it became a dying man of the continent. He wrote that as a state Turkey lost viability and was going through agony. In 1918 North Yemen (Sana) became an independent state. The Ottoman Empire collapsed. Ten years later Yemen signed a comprehensive friendship treaty with the Soviet Union which gave an impetus to developing political, trade and economic ties between the two countries. 
The USSR has always supported Yemen while its neighbor - Saudi Arabia - has always been hostile. Territorial disputes cast a shadow over the relationship: Riyadh asserted claims to a large part of Yemen. The first (to become one of many) conflict between Yemen, an independent country, and Saudi Araba sparked in 1934. 
Saudi Arabia not only attacked Yemen, it also regularly interfered into its internal affairs. Ahmad bin Yahya Hamidaddin, the penultimate king of Yemen, died in 1962 to be replaced by the Crown Prince Muhammad al-Badr. In a week a military coup took place but the overthrown monarch was supported by Saudi Arabia. Those days it was opposed not only by Yemeni guardsmen but also by elite units of Egyptian army siding with the opponents of monarchy. In 1967 South Yemen was proclaimed to be an independent state to complicate the situation in the south-western part of Arabia Peninsula. The tribal and ethnic contradictions were exacerbated by differences on foreign policy issues. South Yemen fully allied with the Soviet Union and ideology became a factor to widen the existing gaps. 
In 1990 the both states united but the contradictions remained. Riyadh intensified efforts to increase its regional influence. The 1991 Persian Gulf operation of international forces against Iraq was to large extent financed by Saudi Arabia. The West does not like to remember about it. In 2002-2003 the al-Aqsa Intifada, a military operation conducted by Israeli special services and supported by the United States, spread to the territory of Yemen. Civilians died as a result of missile strikes. Suzanne Nossel, a US human rights activist, said in the heat of presidential pre-election campaign in the United States, that the strikes enabled US leader George Bush to meet the situation head on and make Israeli enemies see what fate awaited them in the near future. 
The family of Osama bin Laden had roots in Yemen. In late 1920s Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden left Hadhramaut for Saudi Arabia looking for a job. In 1931 he founded a company of his own. He was always affected to his homeland. 
The political, ethnic, tribal and religious divergences, as well as outside interference, led to Yemen’s involvement into the process of «color revolutions». It lasted a few months and finally made Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi become president in February 2012. The change of power did not result in stability. To the contrary, it spurred the confrontation as former president Ali Abdullah Saleh retained the support of the Houthis-Yemeni Shiites. The conflict between Saleh and Hadi has aggravated due to a number of reasons. The internal conflict in Yemen has not been settled. 
Mehmet Kiliç Bey, a well-known Turkish expert in economy and political science, compares the internal conflict in Yemen with other bloody conflicts in the Muslim world - the war between Iran and Iraq, civil wars in Afghanistan and Algiers, bloody skirmishes in Indonesia and the Philippines. In a report issued before the first term of President Bush, Jr., the US Intelligence National Council’s experts listed the Yemen as a country facing the highest risk of conflict along with Palestine, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The geopolitical risks engendered by the internal confrontation that has been lasting for many years and exacerbated by outside interference, especially from Saudi Arabia which wants Yemen to go under its control and become a zone of Saudi’s exclusive influence. A confrontation with Iran is not the only implication of Saudi’s policy. The goals pursued by Saudi Arabia go much farther than the neutralization of Yemeni Shiites. The kingdom wants to become a leading nation of regional NATO, the role to be played by the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. 
The escalation of Yemeni conflict to the international level was used by the United States to its advantage as leverage at the talks held in Switzerland between the «Big Six» group and Iran on the Iranian nuclear program. In its turn, the framework agreement reached between the P5+1 and Iran with US blessing will become a trump card for a presidential candidate running on the Democratic Party ticket in the 2016 presidential race. Washington tries to take advantage of the situation and engage Iran in transatlantic projects as an instrument in the energy war waged against Russia. The Yemeni crisis reflects the whole range of contradictions in the Middle East. The conflict influences the events far beyond the region’s boundaries. 
Tags: Gulf Cooperation Council Middle East Saudi Arabia Turkey US Yemen
Source:http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/04/09/war-yemen-historic-prerequisites-and-geopolitical-aspects-i.html
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Die EU laviert zwischen den USA und Russland von Pepe Escobar

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Das Minsk-2-Abkommen zeigt de facto, dass die führenden europäischen Mächte Deutschland und Frankreich aus dem “US-Chaos-Projekt” aussteigen wollen
Mit dem Versuch, den “Westen” gegen Russland aufzuwiegeln, ist es Washington sicher gelungen, in einer bereits gebeutelten EU mit ein wenig zusätzlichem Chaos – womit auch sonst? – noch mehr Unruhe zu stiften.
Die mit neokonservativen Drahtziehern verseuchte Obama-Administration hat gehofft, mit einem Paket westlicher Sanktionen und dem mit Hilfe der Saudis geführten Ölpreis-Krieg die russische Wirtschaft so in Schwierigkeiten bringen zu können, dass Russland “sein Verhalten gegenüber der Ukraine ändert” und bestenfalls ein Regimewechsel in Moskau dabei herausspringt.
Das hat nun aber nicht funktioniert. Minsk 2 – so fragil das Abkommen auch sein mag – zeigt de facto, dass Deutschland und Frankreich, die führenden Mächte Europas, aus dem US-Chaos-Projekt auszubrechen versuchen.
Das US-Chaos-Imperium will keine friedliche Einigung in der Ukraine und wird alles tun, um Minsk 2 zu torpedieren. Die zusammen mit der NATO verfolgte strategische Absicht bleibt bestehen: Moskau soll in einen Krieg mit der Ukraine verwickelt werden, um es wirtschaftlich zu schwächen, um ein Wirtschafts- und Handelsabkommen zwischen der EU und Russland zu verhindern und Russland als globalen Mitbewerber der USA auszuschalten.
Der Ölpreis-Krieg hat aber auch nichts gebracht. Die Neokonservativen sind am Verzweifeln, weil das billige Öl der Saudis dabei ist, die US-Schieferöl-Industrie zu ruinieren.
Jetzt reden sie plötzlich laut darüber, mit einem höheren Ölpreis Russland helfen zu wollen; in Wirklichkeit möchten sie aber, um Russland noch mehr zu schaden, den Ölpreis (für die erdölexportierenden Staaten) weiterhin niedrig halten und durch US-Einfuhrzölle zusätzliche Gewinne abschöpfen. Damit wollen die Neokonservativen auch noch Saudi-Arabien und den Iran in Schwierigkeiten bringen. Auf diese Idee ist noch nicht einmal der notorische Russenhasser Dr. Zbig Brzezinski in seinem Buch “The Grand Chessbord” gekommen.
Tretet (Frau Lagarde) nicht auf die geborgten Wildlederschuhe!
Wenn das Chaos-Imperium geopolitisch und auf dem Energiesektor in Schwierigkeiten gerät, lässt sich das im Desaster Kapitalismus wieder ganz einfach ausbügeln. Der Dank dafür gebührt dem IWF!
In der Ukraine wird der IWF die gleiche Verwüstung anrichten, die er gerade in Griechenland, vorher in Irland und in den 1970er Jahren auf der ganzen Südhalbkugel angerichtet hat. Der gefürchteten “Strukturanpassung” folgen immer noch blindwütige Privatisierungen, an denen sich neben “westlichen Investoren” auch heimische Oligarchen bereichern können. Das IWF-Darlehen erleichtert natürlich auch den (legalen) Landraub.
Das IWF-Darlehen von 17 Milliarden Dollar, das der Ukraine wie durch ein Wunder am Vorabend von Minsk 2 zugesagt wurde, erlaubt es den Oligarchen in Kiew, den für das Chaos-Imperium gegen Russland geführten Stellvertreterkrieg fortzusetzen. Es ist an eine Schlüsselbedingung geknüpft: Die Ukraine muss uneingeschränkte Biotech-Landwirtschaft zulassen, und das ist wirklich ein Hauptgewinn (für Monsanto und Konsorten). Die Ukraine ist mit ihren fruchtbaren schwarzen Böden, auf denen wirklich alles hervorragend wächst, das drittgrößte Ausfuhrland der Welt für Mais und das fünftgrößte Ausfuhrland für Weizen. Die Gewinner werden die üblichen der Genmanipulation Verdächtigen sein – die Samenerzeuger Monsanto und Dupont – und der Landmaschinenhersteller John Deere.
Michael Hudson hat das Vorgehen des Amok laufenden Turbo-Neoliberalisus schlüssig nachgezeichnet, (s. hier) und er hat recht: Bei dem jüngsten Angriff auf den Rubel ist deutlich geworden, dass “Währungsmanipulation zu einer neuen Art der Kriegsführung geworden” ist und “die Schlachten jetzt mit erzwungene Privatisierungsausverkäufen geschlagen” werden.
Die eitle IWF-Chefin Christine Lagarde, die immer so wirkt, als wolle sie jeden fragen “Haben Sie mein neues Chanel-Kostüm schon bewundert?”, hat nach Meinung des griechischen Finanzministers Yanis Varoufakis gerade Griechenland zur “Schuldenkolonie” gemacht. Wie will sie eigentlich das Milliarden-Darlehen für die Ukraine rechtfertigen, die sich nicht nur in einem Bürgerkrieg befindet, sondern auch noch völlig pleite ist?
Aber Madame Lagarde schmeißt den IWF-Laden ja überhaupt nicht, das tun in Wirklichkeit die “Masters of the Universe” der Achse Washington-Wall Street.
Die EU ist out, die BRICS-Staaten und die SCO sind in!
Das Chaos-Imperium hat gute Gründe, sich über den Konflikt zwischen der EU und Russland zu freuen. Auch Moskau geht davon aus, dass die Sanktionen gegen Russland nicht so schnell aufgehoben werden. Die USA können aber nicht darauf hoffen, dass das ewig so bleibt. Die deutschen Industriekapitäne sind nicht besonders “amused”. Noch vor ein paar Jahren hat Präsident Putin – in Deutschland – ein größeres Europa vorgeschlagen, das von Lissabon bis Wladiwostok reicht; durch die Tragödie in der Ukraine sieht er sich nun aber gezwungen, seinen Blick stärker “nach Osten” zu richten. Aus der strategischen Partnerschaft zwischen Russland und China könnte sich daher ein eurasischer Wirtschaftsraum entwickeln, der von St. Petersburg bis Shanghai reicht; gleichzeitig betreibt China ja auch noch das Projekt einer neuen Seidenstraße, die von China über Zentralasien nach Europa führen soll, und will außerdem die Transsibirische Eisenbahn als Hochgeschwindigkeitsstrecke ausbauen.
Der Mythos von Russlands “Isolierung”, den Washington und seine Vasallen verbreiten, ist ein Witz. Auch wenn das US-Chaos-Imperium weiterhin versucht, einen zweiten Kalten Krieg vom Zaun zu brechen, kann es Russland damit nicht isolieren. Die russische Diplomatie ist sehr aktiv – von Indien in Südasien bis nach Ägypten im Nahen Osten. In diesem Sommer wird Russland Gastgeber für zwei wichtige Gipfel sein: für die BRICS-Staaten und für die Schanghai Cooperation Organization / SCO
Die BRICS-Staaten streben verstärkt nach einer multipolaren Welt – mit der Gründung einer eigenen Entwicklungsbank und der Abwicklung ihres Handels in ihren eigenen Währungen. Die SCO wird bald Indien und Pakistan und in der nahen Zukunft auch noch den Iran als neue Mitglieder begrüßen können und damit zur größten politischen und wirtschaftlichen Allianz Asiens werden.
In den obsessiven Planungen des Chaos-Imperiums sind irgendwelche Vorteile für die EU nicht vorgesehen. Außer zu Gazprom sind fast alle Beziehungen zu russischen Handelspartnern für die nahe Zukunft auf Eis gelegt. Und von der Ukraine hat die EU (außer Geldforderungen) kaum etwas zu erwarten. Sie wird aber vermutlich keinen einzigen ihre ständig an Wert verlierenden Euros opfern, um die Ukraine vor dem Bankrott zu “retten”, und ihr hoffentlich auch nicht den NATO-Beitritt anbieten, weil das ein Spiel mit dem Feuer wäre. Ich behaupte, dass die weitere Entwicklung vor allem von Deutschland abhängt. Wenn Deutschland Geschäfte mit den eurasischen Mächten Russland und China machen will, müsste es eigentlich wissen, wo seine strategischen Prioritäten liegen.
Zutiefst verunsicherte Diplomaten in Brüssel haben angedeutet, Moskau habe eine klare Botschaft gesandt: Entweder akzeptiert ihr die bei Chinesen so beliebte “Win-win-Situation” eines einheitlichen Wirtschaftsraumes von Lissabon bis Wladiwostok, oder die EU folgt dem US-Chaos-Imperium in der Ukraine in eine Konfrontation mit Russland und erhält als vergiftetes Geschenk einen Krieg an ihrer Ostgrenze, den sie nicht gewinnen könnte.
Pepe Escobars letztes Buch “Empire of Chaos” ist über amazon zu beziehen.
Übersetzung Luftpost-kl.de
Eingestellt von Mowitz um 02:03
Labels: BRICS, China, Destabilisierung, EU, Geopolitik, Globalisierung, Neoliberalismus, Russland, Wirtschaft
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

"Der Zweifel wächst" KenFM im Gespräch mit: Ernst Wolff - "Weltmacht IWF" im Niedergang begriffen...


KenFM im Gespräch mit: Ernst Wolff - "Weltmacht IWF ...

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Veröffentlicht am 05.04.2015
Um das Chaos am Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges neu zu ordnen, für globalen Wiederaufbau und damit Stabilität zu sorgen, entstanden 1945 Organisationen wie die UNO, die Weltbank und der IWF.
Proklamiertes Ziel speziell des IWF war es immer, Staaten wirtschaftlich auf die Beine und damit zur Unabhängigkeit zu verhelfen.

Heute ist klar, dass der IWF genau das Gegenteil getan hat und tut. Er agiert Jahrzehnte nach seiner Gründung eher wie ein Drogenhändler, nur dass der Stoff der seine Klienten in die Abhängigkeit treibt, Schulden heißt.

Geht es dem IWF wirklich um Autonomie derer, die ihn um finanzielle Hilfe ersuchen? Oder aber nutzt der IWF im Gegenteil die Notlage von Staaten aus, um diese über die Politik der Verschuldung erbarmungslos ausbeuten zu können?

Im Gespräch mit Ernst Wolff, dem Autor des Buches „Weltmacht IWF“, erhärtet sich der Verdacht, dass der Internationale Währungsfond eher als global handelnder Kredithai bezeichnet werden muss. Wem dieser Hai mit sogenannten Struckturanpassungsprogrammen Schaden zufügt, kann man längst auch in Europa erkennen. Aber wem nützt dieser Hai?

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