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Overview about the history of Yemen since the collapse of the USSR

The history is of interest because US sources like Malcom Nance are blind against historical development. It's almost comical when his Saudi friend Wajeeh Gay Lion was able to deliver a reasoning for the activity of Houthis and explained why this is not longer a war of Shia and Sunnies. Watch the the Black Man Spy on Malcom Nance recorded sep. 14th

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Chronology: Yemen And Outside Influence Since The Soviet Collapse

Before 1991

1839–1967 — Britain holds Aden as colony and protectorate; the harbour serves the route to India and coals the Royal Navy.

1962–70 — North Yemen civil war. Egypt sends more than 70,000 troops for the republicans, Saudi Arabia funds the royalists, and behind them the USSR finances Egypt while the US finances Saudi Arabia — a proxy war on two levels. Nasser withdraws in 1967 for the war with Israel and the republican regime falls within weeks.

29–30 Nov 1967 — British withdrawal completed; the south becomes independent under the NLF, from 1969 the PDRY.

1969–90 — The PDRY aligns with Moscow, which gains naval access at Aden — the same harbour, the other fleet.

22 May 1990 — Unification of the YAR and the PDRY. Soviet aid to the south had ceased and its economy collapsed; the union is contracted from that condition.

After the Soviet collapse

Aug 1990 – 1991 — Holding a Security Council seat, Yemen votes against authorising force over Kuwait. On 19 Sept 1990 Saudi Arabia revokes the exemption that let Yemenis work without permit or guarantor, giving 30 days to comply; up to a million workers are sent home. US aid is cut.

1994 — Civil war; the southern secession is defeated. Saudi Arabia covertly funds and arms the secessionists, including MiG-29s bought in Eastern Europe, in answer to Saleh's Gulf War alignment.

12 Oct 2000 — USS Cole bombed in Aden harbour; 17 US sailors killed. The same year the Treaty of Jeddah settles the Saudi border.

3 Nov 2002 — A Predator strike in Marib kills al-Harithi: the first US drone strike outside Afghanistan, carried out in cooperation with Saleh's government.

2004–10 — Six rounds of war against the Houthis in Saada; in 2009–10 "Operation Scorched Earth" draws Saudi forces across the border.

2011–Feb 2012 — Uprising. The GCC initiative, backed by Washington, removes Saleh with immunity; Hadi takes office unopposed for a two-year term.

Sept 2014 – Jan 2015 — The Houthis, allied with Saleh, take Sanaa, dissolve parliament and depose Hadi, who flees to Saudi Arabia.

26 Mar 2015 — Operation Decisive Storm: a Saudi-led coalition with the UAE, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain, Sudan and Kuwait intervenes to restore Hadi, with US backing announced at once.

Dec 2018 — Stockholm Agreement on Hodeidah; implementation largely fails.

2019 — The STC takes Aden; Saudi Arabia and the UAE broker the Riyadh Agreement between their respective clients.

Apr 2022 — UN truce. Hadi transfers power to a Presidential Leadership Council under Rashad al-Alimi, assembled from the factions the two patrons back.

10 Mar 2023 — Beijing: Saudi Arabia and Iran restore relations under Chinese mediation.

Nov 2023 – Oct 2024 — After 7 October the Houthis attack Israel-linked shipping in the Red Sea; the US counts some 190 attacks on commercial and naval vessels.

12 Jan 2024 — The US and UK begin strikes (Operation Poseidon Archer) with Australian, Bahraini, Canadian, Danish, Dutch and New Zealand support.

6 May 2025 — Oman brokers a US–Houthi ceasefire: neither side targets the other, "including American vessels in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait".

2–10 Jan 2026 — A PLC counteroffensive under Saudi airstrikes retakes the south; the STC dissolves itself, al-Zubaidi flees by boat to Somalia and on to Abu Dhabi and is charged with high treason; the UAE withdraws its remaining forces.

13 Jul 2026 — Government and Saudi forces strike the runway at Sanaa airport to stop a Mahan Air flight carrying IRGC commanders and weapons; the Houthis declare the 2022 ceasefire over.

3–11 Sept 2026 — Houthi offensive out of Taiz takes Mocha, Dhubab, Perim and Zuqar, and with them the Red Sea coast — [[20260911223547-YGBH]]. MBS calls Trump twice on 11 September and is refused — [[20260911224530-GFVB]].

Determination

The unification of 1990 and the punishment of 1990–91 together give the form of everything that follows. The south could enter the union only because the subsidy which had sustained it as a separate state ended with its patron; the united state was then penalised for performing the one act a sovereign state is constituted to perform, a vote of its own. That the penalty took the form of expelling a million workers determines where the dependence actually lay: Yemen's principal export was labour to the country whose policy it had declined to endorse, so that the assertion of independence in the Council was answered in the labour market, and the answer was decisive there in a way no vote could be.

From 2002 the country is valued for what can be conducted in it rather than for what it is. Counterterrorism cooperation supplies the regime with external support, while the campaign that cooperation licenses produces the domestic disaffection which the regime must then suppress — and the suppression requires further support. The 2015 intervention repeats the relation at the level of the state itself: a coalition restores a president whose title came from the GCC transition rather than from any contested election, which is to say that the authority being restored was one the intervening powers had themselves conferred.

What the last three years establish is that the object was never the country. The May 2025 ceasefire names its subject explicitly — vessels, the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab — and concedes the Houthis nothing in Yemen and everything at sea, because the strait is what the patron was defending. On that determination the sequence of 2026 is not a reversal but a conclusion: the client is defeated on the coast, and the patron, asked twice in five minutes to enforce the interest it declares core, declines — the guarantee having been, throughout, a guarantee of the passage and not of the guarantor's client.

Posted Sep 14, 2026, 7:58 PM UTC

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