[ilaksh]

So its like Syria. Its not a civil war at all. Its part of the larger regional conflict between the US and its allies and its enemies such as Iran and Russia.

[TeMPOraL]

So it's like the Cold War never really ended.

[nabla9]

It's a civil war just like Syria is civil war.

The larger regional conflict is attached to the regional conflict. The issues Houthis or Syrian Sunni majority had before the war did not come from outside.

[acqq]

"a civil war just like Syria is civil war"

Because, as you say, "the issues" "did not come from outside?"

Syria, CNN Dec. 2006:

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1571751,00...

"The Bush Administration has been quietly nurturing individuals and parties opposed to the Syrian government in an effort to undermine the regime of President Bashar Assad."

The cable of the US ambassador in Syria, December 2006 via Wikileaks:

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html

cryoshon quoted CIA director William Casey recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597168

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

"said by CIA Director William Casey at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries"

[nabla9]

Outside forces have been messing with them, but the issues that created the civil war were not created by outside forces.

Assad's family and Alawite minority were ruling Syria and Sunni majority was oppressed. It was just question of time when something happens.

[acqq]

Without the weapons and the logistic support provided from the outside, it wouldn't even be a war at all.

It is a proxy war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proxy_wars

with at least 7 million refugees now.