The Biden administration learned nothing from Saudi Arabia’s experience with the Houthis. It’s jumping head-first into a quagmire. From Mike Whitney at unz.com:
On Wednesday, the Biden administration labeled the Houthis a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist group,” opening the door to the imposition of sweeping sanctions. Aid groups immediately responded with warnings that the designation threatens to greatly intensify Yemen’s humanitarian crisis. As a result of the almost decade-long war the Saudi regime has waged on Yemen with US arms and logistical support, more than half of the country’s population—over 18 million people—need food and other assistance…US Imperialism Setting Middle East Ablaze, World Socialist Web Site
The Biden administration is in the process of reimposing the 7 year-long embargo on Yemen that cut off food, water and essential medical supplies to the civilian population. This is how Washington weaponizes the “terrorist” designation in order to use famine as an instrument of foreign policy. The clear intention is to starve the population into submission so the US can advance its geopolitical agenda in the region. In this case, Washington’s strategic objectives remain largely concealed from the general public, so we will list them here:
The United States has three main goals in Yemen:
- To eliminate an ally of Iran. (The Houthis)
- To control critical shipping lanes in the Red Sea.
- To construct an oil pipeline across Yemen in the event that the US launches a war on Iran and shipping in the Strait of Hormuz is disrupted.
Now that Israel is moving ahead with its ethnic cleansing operation, we can add a forth objective to the list: - To militarily engage any army or militia in the region that tries to derail Tel Aviv’s territorial ambitions.
Cakewalk victory days are over.
No more Blumenkriege (flower wars) where the greeting is as liberators, if there ever were any outside of WWII.
While everyone was asking why don’t the Arabs do something about Gaza there were coalitions forming up behind closed doors with some powerful allies.
Two or more can play the war by proxy game.
The mean girl bosses are way too smart for feet on the ground intelligence or having someone who speaks the language and knows the culture as that is all white male patriarchy stuff.
How will they bomb Yemen back to the Stone Age and will it take trillions and twenty years like Afghanistan?
Remember the Afghans you have the watches and we have the time quote as well.