Just last week the US has taken upon itself to start yet another conflict….this time it is Yemen.
These airstrikes were to make the Houthi rebels cease their rocket attacks on commercial shipping….
President Biden acknowledged on Thursday that his strikes against the Houthis were not working to stop the Yemeni group but vowed they would continue anyway as the US military bombed Yemen for the fifth time within a week.
The president made the comments when asked by a reporter if his strikes against the Houthis were working. “Well, when you say ‘working’ — are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes,” he said.
The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, have vowed they won’t back down in the face of the US military. Ansar Allah’s leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, said Thursday that it was a “blessing” for the Houthis to be in a direct fight with the US. “We praise god for this great blessing and great honor — for us to be in a direct confrontation with Israel and America,” he said.
Since Biden ordered the first strikes against them last week, the situation in the region escalated dramatically. The Houthis are now targeting American commercial shipping, hitting two US-owned cargo ships with missiles earlier this week, and more shipping companies have suspended transits through the Red Sea. Before the US escalation, the Houthis made clear they would stop attacks on Israel-linked commercial shipping only if Israel’s onslaught in Gaza ended, but President Biden is determined to continue supporting the slaughter of Palestinians.
The US backed a Saudi/UAE-led coalition against the Houthis in a brutal war that killed 377,000 people between 2015 and 2022. During that time the Houthis only became a more formidable fighting force and developed missile and drone technology that gave them the ability to hit Saudi oil infrastructure. A ceasefire between the Saudis and Houthis has held relatively well since April 2022, and Riyadh is now calling for the US to exercise restraint in Yemen.
(antiwar.com)
The shipping ;lanes of the Red Sea…..should that have not been the area where locals should have handled any problems…..why was the US involved?
If this fiasco does not stop the attacks will the US be prepared for yet another Middle East invasion and war?
What a waste!
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“lego ergo scribo”
Where are all those nukes when they are needed?
Warmongers are sitting on them for our next ‘big war’ chuq
They need to be tested out in smaller wars first.
No need we have ruined many an island testing the damn things….they are ready to go as soon as Herr trump gives the word. chuq
Good…. that is at least one thing he might get done.
Sad so very sad chuq
What’s the old saying? The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history?
The US has been trying to meddle in other countries politics and squabbles for 200 years, and in that time all of those efforts have generally not only failed miserably, they often made the situation worse. You’d think we’d have learned by now, but apparently not.
You are right all we know how to do is make things worse. chuq
“Just last week the US has taken upon itself to start yet another conflict….this time it is Yemen.”
How can the US be accused of starting a war? Didn’t the Houthis start it by attacking ships? Actually, since they are a proxy of Iran and are being supplied and financed by Iran, it is Iran that has started the war. Iran’s war is to eliminate all US presence in Middle East and strangle the West by a diminished ability to import oil. Then they feel confident of incinerating Israel ( which they promise and rage about daily for decades) without consequence.
The US should have had it’s proxies KSA and UAE do their dirty work for them….those countries have more to lose if shipping is halted than the US….plus both of those countries have been bombing Yemen for many years…..they know how to do it. chuq
Yes, that makes sense. Perhaps KSA and UAE did not want to piss off Iran who has become increasingly emboldened..
Those two have been bombing the Houthis for years why shy away now? chuq
The UK has also pitched in with ‘retaliatory air and missile strikes’, and our government is using the situation to announce an increase in the wholesale price of oil. As always, you only have to ‘follow the money’.
Best wishes, Pete.
I still want to know why KSA or UAE could not have handled this…..they have been doing the same thing for damn near a decade. chuq