If you're further interested in a look inside Yemen, here's a cursory look from a traveler a month ago: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl8FPYOnJ4M" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl8FPYOnJ4M</a>
Low intensity conflict. It's always like that.<p>Someone shoots at someone somewhere else. It just a background noise. Why bother?
You won't hear your bullet. Even if you could, it won't change anything anyway.
> When Yemen united its mountainous Islamic tribal north with its mountainous Islamic tribal south, many observers were adamant that the experiment was doomed to fail. The differences between the two sides were too great.<p>Clever.
Meanwhile the russians are actually gearing up to invade Ukraine with force as we speak (write), and the worst deterrent the west seems willing to use is blocking Russia from the SWIFT international banking system, and that's a maybe.