Oil. Saudi oil and other oil that is Sunni Controlled. The world might not like what Saudi Arabia is doing to Yemenis but, the world knows it runs on oil and without cheap Saudi oil their countries will cease to function. Also, they don't want Iran in charge of Saudi Arabia. So, the people of Yemen are like a sacrificial lamb in this case.
This reminds me a lot of the last Cold War but in some ways this new type of Cold War is even stranger than the last one because we now have proxy wars within proxy wars.
First you have the disagreements with Russia and to some degree China (Cyber war) and in regard to Russia (Ukraine and Crimea). Then you have Syria which started with Russia and Iran backing Assad and now we have 10 to 15 million refugees around the world just from Syria and Iraq.
And we are not even talking about all the deaths and starvation in Yemen yet.
So, here is the proxy war within a proxy war (All Sunni Nations versus Iran, Iraq and Syria) and presently this war is manifesting the most in Yemen. However, then there is another proxy fighter (ISIS) who is a proxy warrior on behalf of All Sunnis who hate Shiites. So, ISIS is trying to extinct All Shiites on earth.
If you think this is completely crazy I agree with you. But when hasn't war been insane?
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