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Houthi leaders in Yemen criticized the U.S. for undermining their delicate truce with the Saudi coalition during Ramadan that was reached earlier this month and seen as a potential breakthrough in the seven-year-long conflict.
The U.S. said it sent up to eight ships to the Red Sea to counter illicit coal smuggling, weapons dealing, and human trafficking in the region.
The U.S. has called the waterway problematic and said it has, in the past, intercepted such shipments that end up funding terrorism in Africa. Some of the coal and weapons are often destined for Iran, the U.S. said.
But the decision by the U.S., which supports Saudi Arabia, caused new tensions in the region.
Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the Houthis’ chief negotiator and spokesman, told the AP that the U.S.’s move runs counter to Washington’s claim that it supports the ceasefire and does nothing more than to enshrine the “aggression and blockade on Yemen.”
AntiWar.org wrote that it is “unsurprising” that the Houthis “noticed this stands in stark contrast to supposed U.S. interest in ending the war.”
TRENDPOST: Yemen’s civil war started in 2014, when the Houthis, who were ruling large sections of Yemen for over 1,000 years, overthrew the unelected president put in control by the Saudis. The Houthis eventually took control of Sana’a, and then seized the presidential palace.
The Saudi-backed coalition is concerned that Houthi rule in Yemen would mean rival Iran would gain a foothold at the border with Saudi Arabia.
The war, the worst humanitarian crisis on earth, has been dragging on for seven years and has been blamed for 150,000 deaths and displacing millions. (See “SAUDI-LED YEMEN SLAUGHTER ESCALATES,” “MURDEROUS YEMEN WAR: MILLIONS IN PERIL. WHO CARES?” and “YEMEN CRISIS WORSENS. IT’S NO NEWS.”)
TRENDPOST: The Stockholm Peace Research Institute that showed G20 states “have exported over $17 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Kingdom entered the conflict in Yemen.”
ReliefWeb.int reported that 80 percent of the country’s population of 28 million depends on international aid to survive. The Tasnim News Agency reported that the war has destroyed about half of the country’s hospitals, which was all the more critical during the COVID outbreak.
The UN humanitarian agency warned that 16 million Yemenis would go hungry this year, and the risk of large-scale famine “has never been more acute.”
While the COVID War and its growing “cases” make headline news month after month, barely a peep from the Presstitutes of the mass murder and human suffering inflicted upon innocent people by murderous politicians and their nations that sell the invaders murderous weapons.
Horrible History
President Joe Biden was vice president under President Obama when the U.S. became involved in the conflict. The Biden administration has essentially kept the same policies in place as America’s Noble Peace of Crap Prize winner, Obama, who supported the war… despite vowing to end the war.
Western officials say the Houthis are beginning to deploy better weapons and drones, which are capable of inflicting more damage on Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Houthis have the sense that they are making new gains, so Western officials believe they are less inclined to negotiate.
The truce went into effect on 2 April and is the first nationwide cease-fire in Yemen in six years, the AP reported.
Abdulghani Al-Iryani, a senior researcher at the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies, told The New York Times, “What we are seeing in Yemen is technology being the great equalizer. Your F-15 that costs millions of dollars means nothing because I have my drone that costs a few thousand dollars that will do just as much damage.”
The UN estimates that up to 23.4 million people in Yemen need financial assistance and 2.3 million children in the country are acutely malnourished.
TREND FORECAST: The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen that is playing out due Saudi Arabia’s attack on the nation. Here are a few of the articles: (See “YEMEN WAR ON TRACK TO DESTABALIZE MIDDLE EAST,” “U.N. CALLS FOR YEMEN CEASEFIRE,” “PROTESTS IN YEMEN AGAINST U.S., SAUDI-LED COALITION,” and “YEMEN WAR INTENSIFYING…OR ENDING?”, U.N.: YEMEN HELL.” )
Thus, we maintain our forecast that the Saudi/U.S. alliance will not defeat the Houthis, and the war will rage on, killing tens of thousands of innocent people while inflicting devastating and deadly hardship across the nation.
The war will continue to be ignored by the mainstream media and the vast majority of the world will be ignorant to the human suffering the United States and Saudi Arabia have inflicted upon the nation.
And, again, while the Ukraine War saturates the western news, virtually nothing about this global tragedy is mentioned in the mainstream Presstitutes.