The Weakest European Country Protects Saudi Arabia… A Setback for the Coalition

The recent Yemeni attacks have revealed a dire situation for Saudi Arabia; it has now resorted to the weakest European countries for protection. So, how far has the coalition come?

Exclusive – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:

In March 2015, Saudi Arabia declared the start of a war on Yemen with a coalition of nearly 17 countries, led by the United States and Britain, with technology and mercenaries from several other Western and African countries.

At the time, Saudi Arabia believed that the decision would not take more than two weeks, according to the coalition spokesman Ahmad Asiri.

Today, this war scene is repeating itself but in reverse; Yemen—which has shown entirely domestically produced capabilities—has decided to break the Saudi grip with an escalation that ends years of war and siege. Without alliances, Yemeni forces have made their way to the Saudi coasts and completely halted its oil exports. They did not limit themselves to targeting ships and preventing sailing to Saudi ports but also escalated the response by bombing strategic ports and oil facilities along Saudi Arabia’s western coasts.

Unlike Sana’a, which barely a decade ago could barely confront the Saudi aggression and its alliance, Saudi Arabia appears weaker this time, having resorted to the weakest of nations to protect its vital facilities. Greek media published reports about the participation of Greek forces deployed in Saudi Arabia in attempts to intercept the recent Yemeni attacks targeting Yanbu port.

Greece is a poor country on the fringes of the European continent, operating Israeli systems for Saudi Arabia, and is the least technologically advanced among the rest of the systems.

What emerges from this gap is that Saudi Arabia, which mobilized the world in its previous war, has become alone and without a protector, with America preoccupied with the Iran front, the Israeli occupation with the fronts of Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza. Even its smaller ally (the UAE) is struggling to survive the repercussions of the war on Iran, and Saudi Arabia has no protector left except countries suffering economic collapse, trying to operate their armies as mercenaries to secure their livelihood.