America and the West have taken the side of a tribe against a nation in Yemen, albeit one that has effectively been seized by a Shiite cult against the popular will. I don't care how rich the Saudis are or how many dumb mercenaries they can hire from Africa, Pakistan, Ukraine, and South America, they're going to lose that war time after time. It's a numbers game. Yemen can field more men, and they're braver too.
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Isa Blumi (born 1969, in Teplice, Czechoslovakia) is a historian. He is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University in Sweden.
Blumi has written more than two dozen articles. They cover topics and focus on Ottoman rule in Albania and Yemen, migration patterns of Muslims in the Balkans to Western and Central Europe, south-eastern European history and current affairs, post First World War social history in Kosovo and Albania, the Kosovo crisis, and analysing issues relating to state centralisation and identity. His research interests include Balkan history, Political Islam, the Middle East/Persian Gulf/Red Sea regions and Muslim migration. Blumi has favoured a multi-sited comparative and interdisciplinary approach toward his research that encompasses social history, post-colonial theory and analysis of state institutions as they evolved over time. His research has also entailed a transregional approach examining sociopolitical, cultural and economic exchanges, links and fragmentation in relation to collapsing political systems and the Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Empire and their transnational impacts on the Balkans and Balkan diasporas around the globe. His other areas of research interest have included modern forms of Islam as practiced in the Balkans, Middle East, Eastern Africa and South-East Asia after the Second World War and nineteenth century Asian Muslim Emirates dealing with expanding European commercial interests within the South China Sea.
Video Title: Yemen Will Not Be Overwhelmed by History With Isa Blumi. Source: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live! Date Published: October 1, 2026. Description:
As many have been closely following the unfolding events in Yemen in recent weeks, we were able to catch up with Isa Blumi, author of Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World.
We discussed aspects of Yemeni history which are important to understanding the development of anti-imperialist and anti-systemic forces in the region.
Isa Blumi is Professor at Stockholm University within the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of multiple books, including Ottoman Refugees, 1878–1939, Foundations of Modernity, Reinstating the Ottomans, and Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World
