Yemenis resolute to fight back Saudi aggression: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Jim W. Dean, the managing editor of the Veterans Today from Atlanta, about incessant Saudi airstrikes against Yemen, while warring parties are negotiating peace in Kuwait.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: It seems that Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes and aggression against Yemen is continuing even at a time when delegations from both sides, i.e. the Yemeni representatives as well as those from the former regime meet in Kuwait, are negotiating. Isn’t this decidedly against the spirit of peace talks?

Dean: Well,... the fighting never seems to stop whether there's a ceasefires or not and the peace talks go on with virtually no accomplishment whatsoever. It's almost like they’ve turned these peace talk jobs into full-time jobs that they plan to keep forever. So, but the amazing thing about the Yemen war is how the Yemenis can continue to keep the fight up when they have a blockade, a complete sea blockade, on.

I have really no idea where their fuel would be able to keep their vehicles going. Certainly, they have a lot of weapons stored away from the old Soviet, these tactical ballistic missiles that they're using, which seem that they’ve done incredible damage. But these things have to be moved around, they need trucks, they need fuel, it takes fuel to even move fuel trucks around.

So, it has totally mystified me how they've been able to keep the fight up and resupply themselves with ammunition and the key things they need to keep the war going. I would've bet that they would've just run out of things to fight with for now.

Press TV: Well, so it would seem but of course it is obvious that Saudi Arabia is continuing its strikes on Yemen to put some pressure on the Yemeni delegation when it comes to negotiations and giving into concessions. However as you just mentioned they have been putting up a fight. So, is that tactic going to work?

Dean: Well, so far it has as long as the Yemeni people are willing to die, the public they’ve not had much internal revolt and somehow they're getting some support through to them. And the Saudi Arabians are looking smaller and smaller, and longer that this goes on with rich and militarily powerful Saudi Arabia continuing this pointless war with Yemen is basically showing that to be very very low class statesmen are very pitiful thing to do and really just born out of fear that any kind of an independent state on their border they consider a threat to their own regime, which really shows that they don't feel that they have much leadership control over the country, that they could be afraid of what the people of Yemen could somehow stimulate the Saudi Arabian people to overthrowing the Saudi royal regime.

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