South Yemen was a Soviet satellite state. The USSR absolutely wanted influence in the Peninsula. The Us supported the KSA and their goals so long as they would oppose the USSRhttps://twitter.com/ConfessionsExMu/status/979381133941985280 …
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Totally get that. But why did so much funding go West then? How is that solving the problem?
The Sunnis have allied w the US, so the Shias have allied w Russia, naturally. That explains the Russian influence in Yemen.
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afaik the russian alliance w/ yemen was as a result of the communists in yemen opposing the british control of the port of Aden. it wasnt a consequence of sunni-shia relations. The religious divide may have in turn influenced the saudis to oppose them though
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obviously though the real problem is wahhabism and its origins in islam, which has nothing to do with the US. but US politics did play a role in its wide dissemination.
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