US goals in aggression against Yemen; Ansarullah’s firepower remains intact.
In the final days of winter, US President Donald Trump issued an official order to launch a new round of attacks on one of the poorest countries in the world, Yemen. This airstrike began as the new US President signed an executive order in his first days in the White House to once again include Ansar Allah on the list of foreign terrorist groups to increase economic pressure on the Yemeni people. At the same time, suspicious movements began in southern Yemen to launch a new round of attacks on Sanaa, which were met with a swift response from the Yemeni resistance.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE, who had not been able to achieve all their demands on the Yemeni front after eight years of fighting, also adopted a policy of “economic pressure”. In response to this strategy, the leader of Ansar Allah threatened that if Arab countries wanted to target Yemen’s banking system and financial structure, Yemen would retaliate. In the rest of this note, we will try to examine the causes and future of the invasion of Yemen while reviewing the direct military confrontation between the US and Yemen.
Playing with “Fire” in Yemen
After issuing the order to attack Yemen, the US military published a bank of military, humanitarian, and strategic targets in Yemen that are within the range of the country’s war machine. Jawf, Amran, Hodeidah, Saada, and Sanaa are among the major Yemeni cities targeted by the US war machine. On the other hand, the Yemenis, while targeting the occupied territories again and preventing the passage of Zionist ships, repeatedly attacked the aircraft carrier Harry Truman in an unprecedented move. In these operations, in addition to advanced drones, the “Palestine-2” and “Zulfiqar” missiles also played a key role in bypassing the enemy’s defense systems and targeting their interests. During the new round of clashes between Washington and Sanaa, the Americans intend to confront Ansar Allah with minimal help from their regional and extra-regional allies.
A Look at the “Middle East First” Policy
During the 2024 US election campaign, Donald Trump, like in his first term as president, tried to attract the attention of American voters, especially the white middle class, by focusing on slogans such as “America First” or the “Greater America” project. Pursuing a policy of deporting illegal immigrants, rejecting the continuation of the war and trying to establish a ceasefire, tightening the Mexican border, escalating tensions with members of the “Five Eyes” club, claiming territory for Greenland, and expanding the scope of the tariff war to Europe, indicated a kind of isolationist foreign policy by the new US administration to increase the country’s economic power and focus on the China issue. Today, American ships, fighter jets, and troops were deployed in the Indo-Pacific region to serve the imposed “Israel First” policy!
In this policy, the AIPAC, J Street, and Christian Alliance for Israel lobbies were able to impose this view on the new US administration by pressuring congressional representatives, communicating with Trump administration insiders, and ultimately running Republican think tanks, that the country’s Middle East policy is an “exception” and must protect the interests of the Zionist regime. In this view, which is not rooted in reality, if the US wants to overcome Russia and China, it has no choice but to defeat the axis of resistance and create a “new Middle East” through the development of the Abraham Accords. This military-security pact will enter a new phase with the operationalization of the “India-Middle East-Europe” corridor and will change the face of the region. Today’s Yemen war and the Americans’ efforts to reach some kind of final result in the region should be analyzed with these considerations in mind.
Yemen’s power and the axis of resistance to restore itself
The region faces fateful days ahead. After months of war and successive attacks, the US and the Zionist regime intend to change the face of the West Asian region based on their priorities and interests. Despite losing Syria and a group of its prominent figures, the Resistance Axis still has a strong presence in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Iran, and can regain its former strength in the shortest possible time.
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Despite the claim of US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz regarding the destruction of a large part of the weapons infrastructure and military capabilities of the Yemeni resistance, the group’s firepower still exists in the Red Sea and against the occupied territories, and it continues its religious-national mission with strength. Some analysts believe that the US goal in this unilateral invasion is to demonstrate its power and at the same time, reach some kind of ceasefire agreement with Ansar Allah. Recently, the US President also implicitly announced that the condition for stopping the attack on Yemen is the end of Ansar Allah’s defense operations in the Red Sea area.