Saudi-Yemen Conflict: The only option left for Saudis to end the nightmare of humiliation in Yemen. Saudi Arabia’s most important goals now are to stop Ansarallah’s missile and drone strikes on Saudi territory, to dissuade them from liberating Marib, and to release its high-ranking Saudi captives, so that its nightmare of humiliation may end. It will be achieved if Riyadh accepts Ansarullah and puts an end to its aggression.
The increase in Yemen’s military might by relying on its indigenous capabilities has destroyed the Saudi military’s superior hand in the military, and Riyadh will not have the capacity to end the crisis, even through diplomacy.
Last month, the latest round of UN-sponsored talks between the Yemeni side and the Saudi coalition regarding captives in the UN-sponsored capital of Oman, Abdul Qadir al-Murtada, blamed the Saudi delegation for the sabotaging talks.
Simultaneously with the failures in the field of diplomacy, the Saudi coalition, as in the past, intensified its attacks on Sanaa with the notion of superiority on the ground, and despite international concerns about the difficult humanitarian situation in Yemen, which of course led to a Yemeni retaliation deep in Saudi territory.
The military alliance of the Saudi coalition, although it imposed an unequal war on Yemen, has been weakening day by day for the past 6 years and it has been ineffective for months for the aggressors and it seems impossible for the Saudi coalition to continue this war.
Accepting Ansar al-Islam’s power in Yemen and ending blind air strikes is the most important and effective step by Saudi Arabia to end the war, which, for all its bitterness, Riyadh has to acknowledge in order to save itself from the Yemeni swamp.
In its latest round of attacks (March 7th), the Saudi coalition, in addition to airstrikes on Sanaa following a field defeat in Ma’rib province, targeted the province with repeated airstrikes. In the past few days, Yemeni forces, while effectively resisting in the liberated areas of Ma’rib province, targeted Saudi military bases and important positions in the areas of Asir, Jizan, and Aramco in the port of Ras al-Tanwara.
