What the Red Sea ship attacks are really about
Yemen's Houthis say they're avenging Gaza. But there's a lot more to it.
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After the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7, 2023, the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group, began attacking ships passing through the Red Sea. The Houthis pledged to attack any ship in these waters that does business with Israel, to protest Israel’s war on Gaza and to show solidarity with Palestinians there. But as the attacks have continued, another motive for them has become apparent: strengthening the Houthis’ control of Yemen.
After a nine-year civil war, the Houthis today control a sizable area in Yemen, with over 70 percent of the Yemeni population within the group’s territory. The conflict has devastated the country, creating one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. More than 377,000 Yemenis have been killed - by airstrikes from a Saudi-led coalition; landmines and detonations planted by the Houthis; a lack of medical services; and scarcity of food and water due to a naval blockade. And both the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis have been accused of committing war crimes against Yemenis.
Today, the Houthis are attempting to establish themselves as Yemen's legitimate leaders in the eyes of Yemenis, though they’ve done little to improve the country’s humanitarian crisis. The Red Sea attacks, which appear to have significant support among the Yemeni people, might be a means to achieve that goal.
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00:00 The Red Sea attacks
1:09 Saleh and the Zaydis
3:19 The Arab Spring
4:24 Civil war
7:23 Ceasefire talks
8:23 Legitimacy
Sources and further reading:
Back in 2018, we produced a video on how the Saudi-led coalition uses weapons made by the United States to target Yemenis. You can watch that here for more context on Saudi Arabia’s and the United States’ involvement in this war:
How the Saudis ended up with so many American weapons
• How the Saudis ended u...
Here are a couple of analyses about the Houthis by the expert in our video, Fatima Abo Alasrar, that we found very useful:
“The perils of underestimating the Houthi threat”
www.mei.edu/publications/peri...
“From Yemen to Palestine: The strategic depth of the Houthi-Iranian alliance”
www.mei.edu/publications/yeme...
“The Houthis’ war and Yemen’s future”
www.mei.edu/publications/hout...
These reports helped us understand the political dynamics of the Zaydis and the 1962 revolution in Yemen:
“The international history of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1968”
dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/ha...
“Yemen’s war-torn rivalries for religious education”
carnegieendowment.org/2021/06...
USIP Yemen country profile
www.usip.org/programs/religio...
For our graphics, we relied on these maps:
Critical Threats and the New York Times for the Houthis’ expansion over time:
www.criticalthreats.org/analy...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
USIP for the Sunni-Shia breakdown:
www.usip.org/sites/default/fi...
Institute for the Study of War for the Houthis’ current stronghold:
understandingwar.org/sites/de...
To understand the Yemeni experience under Houthi control, we referred to reporting by Human Rights Watch:
“Yemen: Houthi landmines kill civilians, block aid”
www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/22/y...
“Houthi and Yemeni Government Violations of the Right to Water in Taizz”
www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/11...
And lastly, to understand the daily reality of the huge numbers of Yemenis still suffering from the effects of the civil war and humanitarian crises, we recommend the stories featured in the Yemen Listening Project:
yemenlisteningproject.thenewh...
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Back in 2018, we produced a video on how the Saudi-led coalition uses weapons made by the United States to target Yemenis. You can watch that here for more context on Saudi Arabia's and the US’s involvement in this war: kzhead.info/sun/aqiblKaBrHiofH0/bejne.html
Thank you for posting this. By watching both it's possible to get a more balanced understanding. However, I find it odd that the role of the U.A.E. goes virtually unmentioned as their influence in the areas not controlled by Houthis is pervasive and is distinct from Saudi influence. I understand the focus of this latest video.
Realifelore has a much better, and I'd say a little less politically slanted, video of the conflict. It go much more in depth, it's almost an hour long I believe
So Yemen was indiscriminately bombed by a US, Saudi, Israeli, UK coalition that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and now they're hijacking ships carrying weapons supplied by the UK and US to arm a genocide committed by Israel that is killing even more people in Palestine even faster. Seems like they're pointing their guns where the Yemeni people want.
Hi Vox!
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did you guys get paid by the UAE not to mention them on this
absolutely they did
You forgot Iran
did you get paid just to mention this?(Sarcasm)
you forgot C*A
They mentioned them *right off*, at 2:07
When the audience is more educated than the presenter
Lemme guess, because she didn’t mention the US or UAE. Thus making everyone else an expert by default
@@christerry1773 Nope but not mentioning them will make you not an expert. Knowing a major fact about something doesn't make you expert in it. But IGNORING a major fact = you definitely not an expert
@@nvm649 lol sorta like with Isreal and Palestine
Just as the video title did not meet your expectations? It is a pretty good summary of the resent Yemen History. Without polemic and emotional accusations
@@nvm649 it’s legitimately a perfectly serviceable summary of events and motivations. Bringing up the USA backing Saudi Arabia due to them being allies, and then abandoning them on the issue, adds to why Saudi Arabia felt somewhat betrayed and pressured to have cease-fire discussions. That does not somehow take away from the fact that Saudi Arabia had its own agency when it decided to enter into the Yemeni conflict and fight the way it did so ineffectively. I don’t know what you think you know that’s so genius. Was there not enough emotional language and absurd micro framing typical of Vox videos for you?
why didn't you ever mention US' involvement in the civil war???
Coups will not be mentioned here.
Because US involvement is limited
@@wirelessbluestone5983all the bombs that are dropped on them are made here in the USA,
Because the US was not a belligerent in the war.
@@Karlswebb actually the creators of this video linked to a video talking about US involvement
No mention for UAE involvement
++USA
They did mention UAE bombed Yemen, but didn't mention 20,000 dead as a result
I just think about how everyone fixated on Hamas' Palestine death toll but no clue about anywhere else + even the Houthis trying to deflect attention from their inadequacies using Israel!
@shloopy5 20K? Do you mean +200K
$$$$$$$
I really like your videos usually but this one was too short to explain this issue and totally ignored the UAE involvement.
And they ignored Saudi led coalation bombing 200.000+ yemeni civilians too
@@SouthsideEnglewoods They mentioned Saudi warcrimes... watch the video dude.
you new to Vox?
USA!
Vox is meant for low IQs and short attention spans. Might I suggest something a bit more hi brow like TMZ.
1:27 Why? By whom? Was there foreign support? This feels pretty important.
by Yemenis themself
Themselves like alvays... Let me guess you look for CIA comment ? 😂😂😂
@@lurker668 reading into it, it sounds like the British were heavily involved
As a Yemeni, we believe neighbor countries plus US and UK are involved.
There is a great Kings and Generals video on the history of Yemen that covers a lot of that part of their history
You didn’t mention US or UAE involvement?
And BP
You keep up with events or you just repeatin what the comments saying ?
Wasted my time watching this.
Most definitely
Why because it didn't place any blame on the people vying for power killing each other?
So you already knew more about this conflict? Like what?
I find it shocking how little I've heard about this conflict. I've heard it mentioned in passing often enough that I knew there was some form of conflict. But rarely if ever have I seen videos of any other media going into any debt, so thanks for bringing it into focus. (Edit to specify. I've heard about it recently, but feel like a lot of the past stuff is news to me, and I feel that even now much of what I have seen can often be summed up as "unrest in yemen" and not much more)
@RealLifeLore has everything you need to understand the full situation, (it's only one of many active or impending scenarios)
There's no western interests in that country. And it is off limit, tacitly owned by Saudi Arabia.
Not to be rude, but the situation has been well-documented as it has been occurring for 9 years, including photos of the deplorable malnutrition occurring due to a lack of aid.
@@BadMonkeee Not at all saying I haven't heard of it. But compared to a lot of other crisis I've heard a lot less, and rarely much detail. Im sure the coverage is out there, but little of it has been presented to me
@@Neptune0404no surprise there. Media only shows what the state wants
5:34 Reminder: Houthi-controlled doesnt mean just military bases. It means anywhere they have power, which includes cities full of citizens. Saudi Arabia bombed and killed many of them
EXACTLY!!
And?
Exactly, the Houthis are the closest thing to an actual government in Yemen. They have 28 million people within their territory. The Saudis victimized millions in their starvation campaign
@@ArcAngle1117 _Exactly, the Houthis are the closest thing to an actual government in Yemen._ THAT'S the standard now?? 🤣🤣🤣
@@dannyarcher6370what do u mean AND? they killed civilians !!!!!
While this report is not wrong, I remember young men from Yemen fleeing to places like Jeju in Korea, when I lived in Korea, to avoid the civil war. I wanted to point out that it not completely desolate in Yemen. Someone I met in my immigration classes here where I live now in France is from Yemen, and she still goes home to Aden to visit. And from pics I've seen there is still a bit of functioning life, people even going to and graduating from university, women do wear hijab but not required to wear burkas (actually the way I saw in my acquaintances pics they wear their hijabs fairly colorfully and in an interesting style). Don't get me wrong, things are still bad there, but life still goes on.
Yes , some extra nuance is lacking in this presentation
Aden isn't controlled by the Houthis. Aden is under the internationally recognised Yemeni govt control. So, it's not surprising that life is somewhat normal there.
I'm from Yemen and the situation is very bad, no health care, no education, no proper food, currency is collapsed. Don't talk about something which you don't know
@@Abood-wn1fiHey Chicken Little, it's ok if people talk and don't agree with you. But ask yourself, are you making the world a better place?
That was true of Gaza too, before the current war. Very few places are completely unlivable.
Vox deletes comments critical of it
Yeah, pretty much all content creators do. Online discourse is so toxic these days that many comments disagreeing with Vox are also toxic for other reasons, and thus get removed. I've seen a bunch of Vox videos with comments that disagree, and I can see comments here that disagree. So I really don't know if Vox are deleting comments just because they disagree, or because those comments also happen to be too toxic for other reasons.
@@AkuraTheAwesomebro don't wave this off as just "content creation" lol. This is journalism
what kind of commends have you seen get deleted?
Is China behind Houthis?
@@mat_maxand journalistic institutions have been held legally reasonable for libel and misinformation in their comment sections before, not surprising they police some responses.
Didn't knew Vox delete Comments. Where the audience is more educated and can give profound Criticism.
So you forgot to mention british involved in Yemen they had army bases there in the 60s 😅
British only colonized south Yemen(specifically Aden). North Yemen never got colonized except Al muka and zebiad city by the ottomans . There is no links between what happening today and the past
@@abusaleh7798so the current terrorist attacks carried by the British and American has nothing to do with it ?
@@Mo-np1me no but it's firstly about the ships and then it got mixed with the civil war and became more complicated
wild how the quality of vox has diminished despite the extra funding
It's never a coincidence.
It's wild how people complain about quality of news when the news doesn't echo their worldview
@@realdaly grow up kiddo, this is a 10 minute youtube video ... it's good enough to introduce people to the conflict that have never heard of it if you're really into the topic go read articles or watch longer documentaries, they will be more nuanced
@@benzo___ says the guy who believes Iran supports terrorism and USA only sells weapons 🤦😂
Interesting how you skipped the fact that Hadi's extended term expired, he resigned, than changed his mind, fleed to neighbouring country (Saudi Arabia) and invited them to invide his own country to take back the power. You can read all that in Wiki. Imagine Yanukovich would did the same after fleeing from Ukraine to Russia? Somehow this was OK when done by US ally.
Cuz Houthi aren’t looking for their homeland interests, unlike Ukrainians. They’re backed by Iran which is trying to replicate Hezbollah (Iranian backed militia in Lebanon) in Yemen.
There are many videos of Iranian officials bragging about how they now control Bab Almnadab strait
@@alking_am842 Ukraine government, one of the most corrupt countries in the world, is looking for their homeland interests? LoL.
Using Wiki as a reliable reference is not much better than using a fictional novel as your source!
@@alking_am842 If the Ukraine government was looking out for Ukrainian interests it would have acted in accord with the Minsk agreements instead of bombing and shelling their own citizens in the southeast.
king & generals did a better video on this if you really want to know the history
Also RealLifeLore.
So weird. Before genocide, no attacks. After genocide. Many attacks
That's why you don't invade a country you can't take
Make sure they do not manufacture your consent!
Mind Begs the Question: - If a Govt stage WMD Hoax - For Control over Resources - Govt can't stage Terrorist/Bio attack - For Control over People by Fear - Get consent to anything for survival - As Hitler got consent of Germans?
This video needed to be at least 3 times longer. Who were the Zaydis exactly? What WAS the governance structure that Al-Houthi was protesting? What has been the experience of Yemenis throughout all of this? What did Saleh actually believe that allowed him to end up on both sides? I feel like I can't formulate a coherent narrative in my mind about what actually happened..
i think a cursory read of wikipedia should answer those questions
Read a book
Have you heard of a book?
It is not a very well researched video really
That's because coherent it won't be without a lot more information that no side will supply. Khat and water.
I don't necessarily disgree with the possibility of your conclusions about other motivations for the attacks in Red Sea. But your analysis frames the US and Britain in a wholly positive light and place all blame for the current problems on the Houthis and none on Saudi/US/UAE/UK bombing, assassinations, blockades, etc. which surely don't help the population you express concern for in this piece. I don't recall any Vox video being less than sanguine when addressing Israel and U.S. intentions in the Middle East. The scholar from the Middle East Institute compares the Houthis to the Taliban (who the U.S. sends billions to). Ok, fair enough. Who do you compare the US/Saudis to as they caused a mass famine and many civilian deaths with carpet bombings in Yemen?
This
exactly
Facts 👏🏽
this
Yep
I Love How VOX Makes Sure They Don't Diss Down UAE & USA lol. They Where Also Involved And Thousands Where Killed Because Of Their Involvements. Be Objective And Don't Pick Sides.
Oh, they do. Only when it comes to Israel.
So UAE and the US is the reason they exist?
They have to constantly sugarcoat and downplay western involvement in the developing world, otherwise they'd be exposed for the Neocolonial Imperialists they are, and we can't have that.
You guys have outlets like trt or aljazeera that does the same for your way of seeing things why get mad when western media does the same
You forgot or you deliberately not mentioned that Houthid fight against al Qaeda.
This isn’t a documentary
Why did you ignore UAE in this ? Let me guess, they sent you Dirhams ? Also you lied about Houthis throughout
Vox is not exactly pro “west” or am I wrong. I actually don’t know about or watch Vox much.
Any video about Yemen that begins with "Zaydi" and "Sunni" we automatically dismiss. An archaic, total misrepresentative and orientalist way to view the conflict in Yemen in which the main motivators has been economic from the start: Its ultra-rich neighbor have been working for decades to ensure Yemen's poverty and destabilization
History did not start 20 years ago.
Agreed. Its baffling that people constantly go back to "religious sectarianism" when mentioning anything about Yemen, the impact of religion on this is purely on which teachings factions claim guide them and ignores the secular organisations involved in the conflict. It's merely politics and the economic interests of the Saudis who have a vested interest in ensuring their own dominance and control over the region.
Kind of relevant when talking about where the houthis came from no? Also, how does yemeni poverty and destabilization help the Saudi economy exactly? Saudi wants to install a government friendly to it to ensure its own security, which the video clearly talked about.
sure cuz this is just CNN disguised as Vox
could not have said it better myself. Westerners like to emphasise the secterian divide as if its the principle reason why conflict exists, and not western supported imperalism.
Overall okay video but HUGE omission by Vox in not substantiating their claim that US+UK strikes against Houthi military infrastructure somehow makes the situation for Yeminis even worse. (9:30) Looks like less than 30 Houthi militants have died in the strikes, how does that hurt the broader civillian population as they claim? Is it because it helps the Houthis gain support from the population whose needs they neglect as the ruling party? Is there something else? Vox gives no answer.
Whomst among us can say whether bombing a country (especially as the US has admitted they are doing so without on the ground intelligence) can lead to poor outcomes for that country? They performed an airstrike on a plumber's ute because they mistook PVC for missiles.
They did a video on this war in the past and even linked it themselves, go watch it. They specifically talk about US involvement and how that could be classified as war crimes. Despite that: I think it's sad that you watch a video like this and the first thing you feel the need to do is comment about the United States. There are so many factions here that are directly responsible for killing civilians like the Saudis, terror supporting Iran and others. Go blame them, not one of the countries that delivers weapons. Cause everyone sends weapons, where do you think all the AKs and RPGs come from, the mortar grenades and primitive rockets?
All you really need to know is that the Houthis are terrorizing everyone within their range and attacking ships indiscriminately, including *a ship full of food aid going into Yemen*. Food aid that is mostly paid for by the US. In terms of public opinion, I'd say the biggest effect the Houthi missile attacks are having world wide is the conflation of Houthis and Yemen as a whole. Most people don't know enough about the area to realize that the Houthis are not a legitimate government of any sort, let alone the government of Yemen. They're very much comparable to Hamas in Gaza that way.
@@benzo___I find it even more sad that people who defend the US/UK do not hold them to the same standards they claim to uphold and to which they hold their adversaries when making a moral case against them. "Everyone does it" falls far short of the democratic principles and efforts for peace which Western countries claim to upholding even they sell weapons and provoke conflicts to advance their own interests.
Salah was 100% NOT Zaydi. He made this clear in many interviews he did.
He was from a Zaydi background, but was an irreligious person.
He was a Zaydi but following Sunni creed as did majority of Northern Yemenis
@@gangstanongrata He was a Muslim who was brought to power by the powerful tribal chief of Hashid who also was leader of the Muslim Brotherhood party of Islah in Yemen
wat bout mo salah?
Where do people get this information from the man is literally saying he isn’t zayid and your still saying he is
Superficially. There is no research on sponsors, beneficiaries, lobbying in favor of the parties to the conflict, etc. just a fuss)
I was expecting them to blame Iran but surprisingly they didn't put the blame on Iran. Of course Iran has a major role in these attacks---it was the means they found to harass the US in the region without going directly into war with the US.
The Houthis are a Shia Islamist political and military group that control most of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa and the northwest of the country, including the Red Sea coastline. The Houthis are a large clan from Yemen's Saada province that practice the Zaydi form of Shiism. They emerged in the 1990s in part as a reaction to rising Saudi financial and religious influence. In 2012, Houthi rebels took advantage of unrest in Yemen to build a loyal following in the north of the country. In 2014, they seized the capital Sanaa, sparking a civil war with the Western- and Saudi-backed government that has continued since, despite limited cease-fires.
I’m editing a video on the situation in Yemen at the moment. It’s so complicated, and that’s even before you add in the division of the rest of Yemen between Hadi’s government and the southern transitional council.
This report is very interesting by its omissions and its slanted perspective. For instance, in recounting this history, you make no mention of the Houthis strikes on Saudi oil facilities being the reason why Mohammed Bin Salman discontinued his west-sponsored genocidal attacks on Yemen. It reveals that the goal of this video is not to honestly inform the viewer but instead to manage public opinion.
Instead of watching the video everyone who clicked on it should read this comment and immediately click away to demote it in the algorithm
Look up the houthi slogan to see what they are all about. Typing it here would get it instantly deleted.
Thanks for this. That's all you really need to know.
@@justinsimmons5427 Absolutely not. Since when did the slogan became compatible with islamic law?
They are about being Khwarijites
@@thedictationofallahsince a majority of Arab Muslims decided that it was.
Ansarallah could never win against Saudi/USA/UAE if they didnt have popular support
Can you do Myanma'rs Coup next please. the world needs to know
So where is the UK landing? Which beach?
Hat's off for the Huthian effort to stop the genocide.
Ah yes, the complexities of Yemeni geopolitics heavily filtered by Vox to appease eurocentric palet
I could not have said it better. Thanks.
Care to expand and contribute?
@@U570nah, he's just gonna put all the blame on his favourite scapegoat.
@@U570 investigate on your own homie
Mate, please enlighten us. Making a general claim like this without providing specifics archives nothing.
This video doesnt also cover the various spectrum of policital actors alligned with Huthis in the protest/negotiations with the then Yemeni govt.
Being Vox, this is exactly what I expected it to be.
The video is full of oversimplifications and poor geopolitical and historical analysis. It starts by the movement's name itself. Very few people call them Houthis, only in the West is this type of appellation used widely. In Yemen and the Arab world, as well as within the movement itself, they are called Ansarallah. The movement can best be understood through an anti-colonial lens. They are a revolutionary movement that was formed to counter US and israeli influence in the region. That is literally embedded in their doctrine and slogans. Their whole purpose of existence is to free Yemen and the region from colonial dominance. Geopolitical Economy Report, which is run by actual academics and experts on the topic, has a better analysis on the movement. I'd recommend that channel for a better analysis.
Ah yes, anti-colonialism: Murdering political opponents, enforcing a strict islamist belief system, promoting authoritarian leaders, bombing random ships passing by, looking at the list of war crimes like a to-do list. Even having literal slaves! And you're directing people to a channel that shamelessly supports Russian and Chinese imperialism. They are not academics or experts, they are lying propagandaists, and you know this. Shame on you.
They have a western audience. Of course they're going to use the name their audience is already familiar with. Opposition to US cooperation by them was mentioned at 2:23 To say this explains their entire movement is silly, and the video gives a great explanation of why the Houthis lean into that anti-colonialist narrative: it bolsters their support in the face of an otherwise unpopular and brutal government.
thats just not true, that may be true in Yemen but everyone in the Arab world calls them Houthis, I see the Iranian supporters came to cope
It's filled with lies that can be debunked.
There seems to be a lot of important information missing, and the aesthetics of the maps are not on the same level as the Borders or Atlas series. Vox isn't what it used to be unfortunately
exactly
Could have also covered the role of cape of good hope, towards the end.
This is actually a pretty interesting video. I never thought I would be watching VOX content lol.
The civil war didn't cause the famine. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and with support of the US blockading Yemen did
Can you Please report about Ethiopia..🇪🇹
They will lie most of the times.
What are the barriers to Houthis governing effectively? Is it related to legitimacy and reputation, lack of effort, or other factors on the ground?
2:40 I thought "mess around" was a mistranslation but he really did say that lol
This video severely downplays the role of Iran and their backing of the Houthis. There is much blame placed on Saud and the House of Saud, but no mention of Shia 12er theology of Persians and not a single mention of Khamenei's goal or establishing an Islamic caliphate to usher in the return of the 12th Imam. There is also no mention of racial issues between Persians and Arabs. There is a line regarding Arabs, but no mention that Israel had 22% Arab population and 18% Muslim. This isn't Judaism v Islam, but rather a particular Islamic theology v both Jews and secularists and other Muslims and Arabs. Iran isn't upset at Israel being Jewish, they are upset because it isn't Muslim, and a particular type of Muslim.
A very good editorial point raised by this piece of journalism; the Houthis are caught up in regional power struggles. Although I am not sure these folks would otherwise be supporters of Israel, _per se_ , they are surely compelled to aggressive naval actions by the impositions of their arms suppliers, as they continue to seek armament and recruitment for their domestic military campaigns.
This is one of the main reasons my son Aidan is stationed on the USS Dwight D Eisenhower
its shocking how little this conflict is improving.
Such audacity of vox to frame this conflict as a power hungry struggle of the Houthis to "distract from internal problems". Did Netanyahu write your script?
They got hired by Mossad for this journalism.
Houthis spending a lot of time and funds to disrupt global shipping. Baltimore: hold my beer
We stand with Yemen ❤
In the time where I feel peace, actually many war still happening in this world and many people do not know about this.Why?
and you better not believe these paid media channels.
Vox always be dropping the most entertaining and engaging videos
if your doing the 'be', get rid of that 'g'
Glazing much especially with how much information is deliberately kept out or outright false
@@xBINARYGODx you mean the "ing"??
That's how the distract from all the lying by omission, and you happily fall for it!
@@xBINARYGODxIt's AI trying to learn Ebonics from the paid bot comments. Spot the bot with keywords, engaging, uplifting, hits the mark, warms the heart...also AI never makes spelling mistakes.
I think it would be productive for everyone who watches this video to look up what Zaydis believes on their own.
Thanks, Unfortunately there is nothing new here. That part of the world has been in turmoil for centuries. The only thing that has changed is the size and (in)accuracy of the bombs.
To use a scale in your image, based on the size of Yemen, the ship should be a small dot.
As is often the case, US heavily involved here, but mostly glossed over by any 'mainstream' outlets or psuedo 'alternative/independent' outlets like Vox. Should probably tell the whole story abour all critical actors & their wide-ranging roles undermining governmental processes & fomenting strife w/in the country itself. When instability happens, the US is usually involved somehow.
You are confusing causality with circumstantialism. You only hear about the ones the US is involved in. 
@@user-gr9fq9gt9w And the majority of them are the ones the US is involved in.
@@Honkious5824 Majority? How many conflicts do you think there are?!
since when was there a channel called vox im tryna find vox clips :
For those of you who are confused as to why they didn’t mention the drone strikes, Vox already made a video on that
not sponsored by delta?
huh
I am YEMENI. In this report there is truth and lies, but lies are like a 0, anything you multiply 0 by is always gonna be a 0.
Beautifully put.
How would You know what they really want if You can't speak with them?
Excellent
So what's the way out?
Stop slaughtering civilians.
You know you did a fair job of reporting when the "America Bad" fo-po wonks learn in real time that countries have internal conflicts
Listening to Vox about global politics is like listening to a fortune cookie about your future.
Why don't we stick to the reasons that the Yemenis have stated? These are the reasons they are currently prepared to negotiate on. Ignoring them is deregulatory.
This is all a hot mess
...a hot mess of religious hatred.
0:34 dont believe the taiz ppl walked miles kiking out salah n now they miss him
This territory has a deep history of hundreds of tribes each with their own customs and warring factions . Some nomadic, some sedentary with various origin dating over 4000 years. Most of us are ignorant of this unless one has a phd degree in historical and anthropology of persian, naboteans and arabic ancient history.
Any feasible solution to this that doesn't involve turning the west coast of Yemen into a sheet of glass?
4:06 There ya go, thats what its about
The eternal conflict among Muslims as to which faction gets to oppress the others? Yeah, that's pretty predictable.
@@willythemailboy2as if I didn’t happen in any other part of the world? But you really had to point out “Muslims”?
Just vox being vox. Don't watch, some of the major parties involved aren't even mentioned
Exactly
Yep
ALLAH IS WITH THE HOUTHIS YEMEN 🇾🇪...
well it's all about the timing I guess same goes for this video
"Strengthening their hold on power" in this case is Vox-speak for "doing a popular thing that causes the people to like them more".
Welcome to the world of Western rhetoric, make your enemies sound way worse than they actually are, and make yourselves sound way better than you actually are. They have concentration camps, we just have detention centres, they have regimes, we just have governments, their police is secret, ours is just undercover.
Can't we all just get along now?
Satan's promise to pit mankind against other is real. Even between family members, between lovers who promised to love one another for eternity wil def face chaos. The test is how to choose between good and evil in the midst of all of these. We are given logic and reasoning to choose.
Not if USA exists
@@thedictationofallah The UN is way too democratic for their liking.
Johnny Harris really made these episodes special 😢
His solo channel is way better than anything Vice does tbh
Vox* @@thedyingfetus9493
@@thedyingfetus9493 *Vox
@thedyingfetus9493 literally, even with imagery he's way ahead
@@gyallis4life617beautiful imagery is used to shield half truths and hide poor research
I think it's unfair to diminish the deep feeling there is in Yemen, in the Arab world, and throughout our world, for the plight of Palestinians and in particular for Palestinians in Gaza. The situation in Yemen is, as your piece shows, very complicated. But if the Houthis say their blockade of the Red Sea will stop if there is a ceasefire in Gaza - and if that ceasefire is necessary - and the UNSC, with the US abstaining, yesterday called for an immediate ceasefire - why not end the blockade by insisting on a ceasefire by both sides in Gaza? If, after a ceasefire has been implemented, the blockade continues then the motives of the Houthis are certainly suspect. But if the blockade does end with an implementation of a lasting ceasefire, then how shameful is it that the response to this blockade was to bomb Yemen? People died in the US and UK bombings of Yemen. No one died in the Houthis attacks on the ships in the Red Sea. The situation in Yemen is very complicated. I don't know enough about it to have any opinion on the different factions there. I just hope peace and stability will be established there. Which I think would require much less foreign interference? But the motives behind blockade of the Red Sea, at this moment, may be exactly as stated. And I wonder if there is an attempt to confuse the issue by highlighting the complexity of the situation in Yemen. Maybe the blockade really is about trying to stop a genocidal campaign in Gaza. Worth considering, no?
Hope there is peace...
Might as well begin the video with a "sponsored by the DOD" segment with how western-leaning this report is
It's silly to expect their acts of protest to be completely selfless. There is no neutral or self-detrimental action that they would take that would also directly support those suffering in Palestine. Not to mention that (6:50) airstrikes, landmines, and disappearances are the least troubling war crimes we've witnessed recently. Compared to we have seen in 2023-24, that just sounds like regular war. F.P. for all and always.
It's funny how western media suddenly wants to go deep into "underlying issues", instead of just trying to stop the Israeli aggression.
You make no aense
@@JK4507 you gonna bulldoze a graveyard to build a house you loose old man
Did the CIA vet the script for you?
Why didn't mention the Inuits?!
Houthi has a modern slavery system too making them to legalized slavery because it's their part of their culture.
what a racist commentary
@@duniasainsasrofi Facts hurt your feelings ?
religion* say it loud and clear
@duniasainsasrofi the truth is racist...🤷
@@patrickquine3945 white people murdered jesus christ aka the romans so therefore your sins will never be forgiven
You work for 40yrs to have $1m in your retirement, Meanwhile some people are putting just $10k in a meme coin for just few months and now they are multi millionaires. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life
Where do they get the missiles? Do they pay for them? If not, who does? I think we all know.
no mention of brandon removing the houthi from the terror list ? ok .....
REMEMBER, DON'T LET ANYONE CONVINCE YOU THAT IT STARTED ON October 7th: 1. Haifa Massacre 1937 2. Jerusalem Massacre 1937 3. Balad al-Sheikh Massacre 1939 4. Haifa Massacre 1939 5. Haifa Massacre 1947 6. Abbasiya Massacre 1947 7. Al-Khisas Massacre1947 8. Bab al-Amud Massacre 9. Jerusalem Massacre 1947 10. Sheikh Burek Massacre1947 11. Jaffa Massacre 1948 12. Deir Yassin Massacre 13. Tantura Massacre 1948 14. Khan Yunis Massacre 1956 15. Jerusalem Massacre 1967 16. Bahro Al Baquar 1972 17. Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982 18. Al Aqsa Mosque Massacre 1990 19. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 1994 20. Jenin Refugee Camp April 2002 21. Gaza Massacre 2008-09 22. Gaza Massacre 2012 22. Gaza Massacre 2014 24. Gaza Massacre- 2018-19 25. Gaza Massacre2021 26. Gaza Massacre 2023 is still ongoing...
Writing massacre with capital letters on every incident won't make it true 😅😅
If you read into every single one of these "Massacres," you will find that the Arabs started each and every single one.
In a land of believers, logic holds little sway.
In a world where International law is hijacked by a gang that controls the Empire of the USA to support Israel's eternal occupation. It is more logical than you think to use the red sea to pressure Israel to stop what it is doing. USA is unable to do its duties as the world superpower and is pittly supporting unjust genocide of basically unarmed civilians.
Do they have sandworms?
I noticed today my former comment is shadowbanned!!! And I can see other comments are saying the same. This lets me know what kind of channel this really is. Will be avoiding from now on. 👍
Radical Islam to blame. Everywhere it is lies a failed state.
To bad Radicals are the majority in the Middle East .
It doesn't need to be radical, every form of it is atrocious
This is the first I hear about this. 9 years?! Keep us informed on unknown world news Vox.
i suggest you do your own research. im Yemeni and they didnt even mention the most important things.
@@Subwaye well duh! But the subject has to be on my radar 1st. Subjects mainstream news doesn’t cover.
As 25 years old Saudi citizen living in Saudi Arabia, I certainly can confirm this is only one side of the story that could be only 30% of the whole story.
I'm from yemen Perfect explinatione