TEHRAN – The US carried out 40 air raids in Yemen on Saturday night, lasting until Sunday morning.
The attack ordered by Donald Trump was under the pretext that Yemen’s Ansalala threatened to target ships related to Israel in the Red Sea in response to Israel’s humanitarian blockade to the Gaza Strip in violation of the January 19 ceasefire agreement.
Before returning to the White House, some had the false assumption that Trump was more experienced now and would act a little more clever than his first term. But he reappeared more recklessly.
Northern Neighbor Canada is a series of rash remarks in the first weeks of the presidency, calling for the 51st state of Canada, threatening to capture Greenland by force, relocating Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
It is rare that a day has passed where he doesn’t hurry and make statements or decisions. A fatal attack on Yemen suddenly came.
The war with Yemen began in March 2015 with a Saudi-led coalition backed by the Barack Obama administration. Yemenis has, however, become more militarily stronger and more resilient over the last few years.
The wedding was transformed into mourning and many other tragedy, but Yemenis was not subdued.
In his first presidential term, Trump scolded George W. Bush for America’s “endless war” in the Middle East. He had openly mentioned the American war on Afghanistan and Iraq, which began in 2001 and 2003, respectively.
However, after 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the United States was forced to flee a country of humiliation. People’s memories were still fresh in 1975 when another accident happened for the Americans, this time in Afghanistan, when the US rushed to fly embassy staff from Saigon. Trump himself acknowledges that the US has left billions of dollars in gear.
“We’ve left billions of billions of dollars worth of equipment in Afghanistan,” he told his first cabinet meeting in late February. (Of course, like the other figures he exaggerates. It is also worth noting that an agreement was made during the presidency to leave Afghanistan, and President Joe Biden just implemented it.)
Their war against Afghanistan and Iraq proved scandalous. The Taliban returned to power with victory. Furthermore, no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. In Iraq, it is an excuse for attacks on the country. The most important “achievement” of the war in both countries was the spread of terrorism in the region and beyond!!!
It attacked Afghanistan for giving al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden a sanctuary, but more violent terrorist groups such as Dash (ISIS) emerged.
While memories of the war still bother Americans (not to mention Vietnam), Trump suffers from the illusion that the US can defeat Yemen. If the Trump administration continues its attack on Yemenis, the United States will ultimately be forced to succumb to their demands and sign a humiliating agreement like it does with the Taliban.
Yemenis targeted several ships with Israel to force the occupation regime to end the massacre in Gaza. If the Zionist regime did not allow humanitarian assistance to Gaza, Yemen threatened that a relative and vulnerable ceasefire would effectively target Israeli-affiliated ships.
Former US diplomat Nabeel Cooley says Trump’s decision to launch an attack on Yemenis is misguided and will not conquer them.
“For a president who came to avoid war and wanted to be a man of peace, he’s doing it the wrong way. There are many paths that can be used before resorting to war,” Khoury told Al Jazeera.
In the past, Yemenis “has been badly bombed across their territory” is unlikely to be suppressed through “a few weeks of bombing,” Cooley said.
“If Hamas, you fight life on a very small land, and you think you’re completely surrounded by land, air and the ocean, then the 17-month fires by the Israelis didn’t remove them. Houthis lived in a much more sturdy space, a mountainous area. It’s virtually impossible to eradicate them,” he said.
“So there’s no military logic, no political logic as to what’s going on.”
The only solution is to end Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Arab lands, a source of instability and uncertainty in the region.
The selfish Trump may suffer from the illusion that he can change a series of events, but he must remember the disastrous consequences of the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Israel’s mercilessness, genocide and a futile war with Gazan are also reminders.