Ron Paul: Saudi-Led Airstrikes Aimed at Installing US-Friendly Dictator in Yemen

The Saudi-led attack on Yemen is aimed at installing a US friendly dictator in the Muslim country, former US congressman Ron Paul said.

“We can expect the US to provide indirect military assistance to those who are prepared to invade Yemen and install a US friendly dictator,” he wrote in an article published on his website on Thursday.

“If this war gets out of hand, I would expect that the benefits of $45 per barrel of oil will soon end,” he added.

“There is no doubt in my mind that the American people — financially and for security reasons — would be better served if we just came home and avoided these nonsensical military interventions that are carried out in behalf of various special interests that control our foreign policy,” he added.

Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes against Yemen early Thursday, one day after the US-backed Yemeni president fled the country. Riyadh also continued its offensive against the Yemenis on Friday and left dozens of more civilians dead and injured.

Riyadh claimed that it has bombed the positions of the Ansarullah fighters and launched attacks against the Sana’a airport and the Dulaimi airbase.

But despite Riyadh’s claims, Saudi warplanes have flattened a number of homes near Sana’a international airport.

At least 25 Yemeni civilians were killed and tens of other wounded in the first and 15 more in a second raid of the Saudi-led squadrons of Arab-Israeli coalition fighter jets. Almost all victims have so far been civilians, mostly women and children.