Lmao. I just showed him the evidence few days ago that it is indeed 45-55% the population split.
Plus they are on borrowed time these in red.
All the gas and petroleum, plus the ocean and islands is NOT held by the Houthis. Their ports get shipments with the permission of their foes.
Correct. 5 of the 9 largest Yemeni cities are controlled by the Yemeni government and KSA.
en.wikipedia.org
Around 85% of the landmass. 90% of the coastline. 90% of Yemen's natural resources and most strategic areas. 95% of all the Yemeni islands.
There is marginal popular support for Houthis in the illegally occupied part of Yemen. They are only ruling through fear and force. Academics and intellectuals persecuted and killed regularly. Entire tribes and clans forced to play along. A starving and suffering local population. It is a joke of a state of affairs. Nor will it last, it is all temporary.
This 30 year old cult has no ownership of North Yemen nor any affinity with the historical prior Zaydi states and entities. Prior to their illegal rebellions against Yemen, they were some obscure clan in Sa'dah (next door to KSA) that nobody knew. Now they have claimed Sadah (direct lineage from Prophet Muhammad (saws) to use that as a political power play to fool the uninformed and ignorant locals. We see this behavior within a certain sect of Islam again and again. Suddenly obscure individuals of Indian origin or whatever origin turn into long lost Hejazis. This prodigy is numerous across much of the world and well documented but not to this extend and not with the same troublemakers appearing out of nowhere with no previous records of lineage or well-established lineage or community status within their local community. In other words those are frauds using fake/false ancestry to gain political power.
Just like that Aga Khan cultist of obscure origins who does the same thing. Claims Sadah ancestry through Ismaili Fatimids.
The only support they have in the West are from commies, anti-imperialists (while all of them are sitting in the same West doing nothing to change status quo in the West - have no clue about Yemen or the suffering of the Yemenis occupied by the Houthi cult). It is all a joke.
The only reason why KSA has not razed this part of Yemen to the ground and killed most Houthis is due to North Yemenis being fellow Arabs next door with a big affinity with KSA and our entire South in particular which is home to 5-10 million Saudi Arabians. Outsiders not familiar with the region saw this as weakness but they have no clue. A few days of RSAF bombardments is all it takes to turn Sana'a into Gaza if that was the goal.
For the same reason that the Saudi Arabian army was reluctant to engage. The last resort is always to fight against fellow Arabs. This can be counted on a few hands in the modern era. Iraq when Saddam illegally invaded Kuwait for no reason and caused 35 years of suffering in Iraq, which today could have been one of the most powerful Muslim nations. Not only that, it would be another Afghanistan. Never ending hide and seek. As I said it would require taking the glove off and that is something that has no popular support within KSA or the army. We are not interested in that. This can only happen if we are attacked for no reason and that too only proportionally or in self-defense. Look at past conflicts in Najran and Asir from 100 years ago or other border conflicts in the past 100 years. The same thing was seen. Even if against non-Arabs or non-Muslims we cannot be aggressors for no reason, this is against Islam and Arab culture and civilization.
BTW: Having said all this, people can change and do change, and Houthis can reform in the future, new leadership emerge and I would not even rule out that we could ally with them and that they could come to an agreement with the Yemeni state and KSA. For instance against the Zionists and their regional plots. After all we have had 5 years of peace now and as I wrote there is no historical or present animosity between North Yemenis and Saudi Arabians (regular people). My problem is with the leadership, not even the average foot soldier who knows nothing better and who (if hostile) is that due to brainwashing.
