How did Trump get caught in the Yemen quagmire?
US President Donald Trump, who had previously said in various ways that he could “force and force” the Yemeni fighters to surrender and eliminate them, suddenly announced on Tuesday evening that in an agreement with the Ansar Allah fighters and the Yemeni army, “the United States will stop military operations against Yemen, because the Yemenis promised not to attack American ships in the Red Sea anymore.”
Al Jazeera news agency wrote in a report referring to the US war in Yemen that the strategic goals of US Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump in Yemen remain unclear. The US Secretary of War said in a famous statement on the “Signal” page that this issue has nothing to do with Ansar Allah, but to restore deterrence and open water routes.
American writer Keith Johnson tried to answer the question of what Trump’s motivations are for the war in Yemen are?
Trump believes he can succeed in resolving the issues that former US President Joe Biden failed to resolve. He launched this attack by claiming to support international trade and destroy the Iranian axis, but Johnson writes in his report that Trump’s behavior against international trade and sea routes was more dangerous.
Johnson believes that the Trump administration was trying to show off its military power by playing this game and sending a message to China not to think about occupying Taiwan, but its poor performance in Yemen had completely the opposite results.
The “revival of deterrence,” which the US Secretary of War acknowledged, is a fundamental concept in the US strategy in Yemen; a strategy that has faced numerous challenges and problems and has no way out in the short term.
According to this strategy, until the Yemen war ends with the destruction of Ansar Allah, it can be said that deterrence has been provided for a great power like the United States in a vast territory like Yemen.
This is while achieving this goal seems completely unlikely except in the shadow of a combined war. A year after the US and UK attacks on targets affiliated with Ansar Allah in Yemen, Trump has increased the volume of his military operations. He claims that he can succeed in battles in which the previous US president failed.
In addition to Yemen, Donald Trump has entered into very complex conflicts in the international arena and seems to have lost his focus; to the extent that even the US Department of Defense does not provide any summary report on the war conditions in Yemen to the American media. Trump is caught up in the chaos that he has created in domestic and foreign affairs, and is waiting for good news from Yemen so that he can end the war in this country.