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The world appears on the verge of a total meltdown as conflict and corruption erupts on a global scale. Wherever we look we see the US' hand in stoking flames of division and hatred.

Thanks to the 'US-Saudi coalition' genocide in Yemen rates of malnutrition and starvation have more than doubled into the millions. It is not uncommon for the Yemeni people to see marketplaces turned into an open-casket funeral, with 'blood and body parts everywhere.' The US has been drone bombing Yemen and murdering massive amounts of civilians for the past 14 years. Saudi Arabia has been furiously attempting to prevent an independent Yemen from choosing its own path, and thus cutting the Saudis out of critical shipping lanes. Britain, Israel, and the US have been pumping billions of dollars worth of weapons into the country, turning it into a nightmare. And it's all to prevent a popular uprising:
The House of Saud previously attacked the Houthis in 2009, at the behest of its long-time ally, Yemen's president Abdullah Saleh, who generally placated Riyadh since coming to power in 1994. Saleh and Saudi Arabia's joint attempt to suppress Yemenis' democratic demands by eradicating the Houthis was dubbed 'Operation Scorched Earth', a move that even US diplomats described at the time as "dangerous and delusional."

Never shy of behaving in a ruthless and delusional manner, the US nevertheless, under newly-elected president Barack Obama, participated in 'Scorched Earth' by carrying out 80 targeted operations - from drones, bombers and warships - in northern Yemen, and killing at least 473 people, according to Human Rights Watch. The justification for doing so was that a new terror organization named 'Al-Qaeda-in-the-Arabian-Peninsula' had suddenly sprung up in Yemen, from where it was somehow inducing the teenage sons of rich Nigerians to pack explosives into their underwear and board airplanes bound for the Land of the Free. Yes indeed, the 'underwear bomber' farce was actually about suppressing democracy in Yemen.
In this context, in April the Saudis agreed to a 'peace process'. Initiated between the Saudis' puppet leader in the country, President Abd Rabboh Mansour Hadi, and the Houthi revolutionaries who oppose his proxy rule, it has since fallen apart. It should come as no surprise.

Prior to the peace talks President Hadi dismissed his vice president and prime minister, and installed Saudi-loyal Major-General Ali Mohsen Saleh al-Ahmar as vice-president. Should negotiations have led to Hadi's stepping down for good the next choice in line would be a hard-line Saudi puppet too.

And in May, US Rangers began conducting secret operations, in cahoots with the Saudis and no doubt ISIS and al Qaeda operatives who have found safe haven in the war-torn country. ISIS and AQAP have seized control of important coastal regions of Yemen, thus ensuring Saudi access to these critical geopolitical hotspots like the Port of Aden. Aden is directly across from China's first foreign naval base in Djbouti.

As South Front guessed,
The actions of Houthi alliance on the ground indicate that their leaders likely believe the talks will amount to nothing. A Houthi spokesperson issued an ultimatum July 19: Houthi border offensives will continue until Saudi airstrikes halt. In response, the Saudi-led coalition has launched an offensive into Hajja province in northwest Yemen and Saudi warplanes have increased air raids.
And as Sputnik confirms:
UN-brokered talks on a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Yemen ended after the Shia Houthi rebels signed an agreement with the General People's Congress (GPC) party of the country's ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni government said.

"The negotiations have completely ended," deputy director of the Yemeni president's office Abdullah al-Olaimi said as quoted by The Business Standard on Friday.

On Thursday, Houthis announced that they were forming a supreme political council together with the GPC.

The new body has a number of declared goals including resistance to the Saudi-led coalition.
Thus a true peace that would have acknowledged the Houthis' role in the country was null from the beginning, and was likely a ruse to give US and Saudi forces a chance to regroup. The Saudis have been hit especially hard in the conflict, as the Houthis have proven to be an especially resilient fighting force, and the US/Saudi/Israeli alliance has not had as easy a time in the country as they imagined. Despite genocidal conditions, Yemen refuses to be 'shocked' into submission. As the world burns, we should look to Yemen for signs of just how much carnage and devastation Western nations and their friends in the Middle East are capable, and what 'freedom and democracy' really means to them.