It just can't catch a break. MBS would sooner see it burn to the ground before admitting he screwed up his decision to invade. He's set on devaluing the currency to the point of economic starvation. For the Houthis it's existential - they'll never accept going back to how it was before.<p>And the youth get sick and go hungry.
This was a retaliatory strike in response to an attack by Houthis on UAE.<p>Recent info about what's going on:<p><a href="https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2022/01/houthis-launch-aerial-attack-against-uae-capital-abu-dhabi.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2022/01/houthis-laun...</a>
I would say that the importance and need for reliable two-way satellite IP data as a backup for essential comms (wheter geostationary based, iridium, inmarsat, and soon starlink) is directly proportional to how bad the political situation is in a country.<p>Somewhere with an active civil war such as Yemen or Ethiopia, would rank towards the highest end of the scale.