Episode 37 - Yemeni Civil War Part 1: An Outsourced War

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Travis takes Joe through the history of Yemen and the nearly constant foreign meddling in it's affairs that brought us to the Yemeni Civil War. He also takes us through the coalition arrayed against the Houthi uprising and how the US and other western powers support rampant war crimes. Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Or TeeSpring: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow the show on twitter: @lions_by Joe: @jkass99 Travis: @Haycraft_travis

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0:00.0	Turning now to one of the deadliest conflicts in the world.
0:03.0	Yemen's Civil War has been going on for nearly three years,
0:06.0	Iran supports one side,
0:08.0	while Saudi Arabia supports the other.
0:10.0	More than 10,000 people have died.
0:12.0	Two million others have been displaced amid a horrific cholera epidemic.
0:16.4	CBS News foreign correspondent Holly Williams recently got rare access to Yemen,
0:20.8	thanks to the Saudi government.
0:22.4	She was able to see their version of the war. to the range. For nearly three years Saudi Arabia has been backing these Yemeni government
0:37.6	soldiers fighting a brutal war against hooty rebels who have seized swaths of land.
0:45.0	Yemeni general Nasser al-Vebani told us Saudi airstrikes are helping him win back these barren hills.
0:54.7	Oh, the tour.
1:01.4	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Lions Led by Donkeys podcast. I'm Joe and with me today is Travis from Kurdistan again.
1:06.9	Hello. And it's nice that you didn't get disappeared by the Asaiish after our episodes together so
1:14.3	progress. No it's true this morning I had to go into the Asaiish office close by in
1:20.9	order to like file some paperwork for an apartment move and in the back of my head I was thinking like you know
1:29.8	What if what if they listen to the episode?
1:33.8	You're going to get Keshoggi?
1:34.8	Yeah, I'm not going to walk out of this office.
1:39.0	And somebody will in your clothes.
1:41.0	Yeah, I'm going to go out the back in like a series of trash bags.
1:45.6	But luckily, I don't think that are any big fans of the Lions Lead by Donkeys
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