mkultrawide [any]

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Cake day: 2022年8月2日

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  • The first poster is just looking for something in Chapo to be mad at and didn’t listen to what was being said.

    What Derek said was basically “The Houthi’s are the government of North Yemen”. Will brought up that North Yemen is where most of the people live, which Derek confirmed/agreed with, but mentioned that they don’t control Aden (which they don’t). He was saying this in the context of something he talks about more a little later, which is that the Yemeni civil war has been frozen for a few years, negotiations have mostly not gone anywhere, and that it’s hard to say whether or not a united Yemen as we knew it pre-civil war will even exist going forward.

    As to the second point, that user either doesn’t understand sarcasm or wasn’t listening. Derek makes a comment in a clearly sarcastic tone that “Yemen experts” in Western media that were saying “The Houthi’s aren’t doing this because of Gaza, they will keep doing it, etc” and then responds to his own sarcastic comment by saying that they weren’t doing it before and they stopped during the ceasefire, so you might as well try another one anyways and call their bluff.