US fires missiles and attacks 'Houthi' Yemen during the night

We go back on this desperate act that will only strengthen Yemen, and the world's, liberation.

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Empires don’t die in one stroke. It’s a process that takes years to come to fruition, a process that we are seeing in happen in the US.

For more than a century, the USA has been the main purveyor of conflict in the world. From regime change operations to outright war for territorial possessions (and sometimes the more abstract financial possessions), the United States of America has been warring to keep their hold over the world for all that time and more.

It’s in this context that last night, President Biden ordered a missile strike on Ansarallah-”controlled” sites (read: cities full of civilians). Ansarallah is the official name of the so-called “Houthi movement”.

This act is morally indefensible. It’s an act from a dying empire, one that is trying to sink its claws into the running free world, in an attempt to secure its last share before the prey escapes for good.

This powerful act sends an equally powerful message to the world, and the moniker of Genocide Joe is rightly deserved. Especially when it was committed at the same time “Israel” is having to defend its genocide at the International Court of Justice.

Great pieces are moving into place, and the Empire of the United States (and their NATO arm) is only hastening its own defeat through its own actions. Remember that South Africa is the one who started the proceedings at the ICJ, not the UK, the US, France or another “Western” country. It was Yemen — the poorest country in West Asia — who took actual actions to stop the genocide in Gaza.

Yemen’s actions are perfectly allowed in an international context. It is the USA that thinks it can dictate what another country is allowed to do in its waters. The Bab-Al-Mandab strait, as an international shipping route, has a special status. No bordering countries can claim territoriality over the small strait. This was decided without Djibouti’s, Yemen’s or Eritrea’s approval. It was decided, much like the Suez Canal in its day (built by the British when they had a mandate over Egypt), that they could not ask any payment from ships traversing the strait under the guise of the “international rules”.

Today, these rules are being challenged by unlikely contenders. Yemen is perfectly in the right to deny passage to whatever ships they want when they traverse their national waters, which they are bound to do when traversing the thin strait (which is 27km wide at its lowest, with territorial waters extending ~22km from the coast).

They are completely allowed to tell Israel-bound ships, as well as ships owned by Israeli companies, that they are not welcome in Yemen’s territorial waters. If those ships don’t like it, they can take the longer route through the Cape of South Africa.

Of course, one common argument against Yemen’s sovereignty over their territory and waters is to say that the ‘Houthis’ (their official name is Ansarallah, Supporters of God), is “Iranian-backed” and not the “legitimate” government of Yemen.

Do you think Yemenis care that Ansarallah is not considered a legitimate government? Do you think they care that Iran is helping them?

The reality on the ground is that Ansarallah is the vanguard of the Yemeni people. They are the most able, at this time, to answer the needs of the people, their issues and their concerns. This is how this grassroots movement took over the government and is now working towards a free Yemen, whose people have been denied this right for decades.

Biden’s hostile act in Yemen comes after he was unable to muster the slightest coalition to “restore the flow of trade”. Who asked the US to be the world’s police? Who asked them to attack Yemen? This is an act he undertook by himself, that even Congress didn’t know about and is now debating.

But why is it their responsibility? This is a problem between “Israel” and Yemen to solve. Once again, Biden is bringing us closer to all out war and making the world a worse place, and he still has a year left on his mandate.

Ansarallah has always been clear with their intentions: there is a blockade going on. If you defy it, expect to be turned around. Expect to be boarded.

Some people might balk at this so-called “aggression”, that Yemen is boarding ship or firing at them. But so far, they have not killed anyone on those ships. And, after a military coalition has been announced, if a ship decides not to heed warnings, not to answer their radio, and shuts down all their systems so they can’t be identified in an attempt to cross the blockade, it is not far-fetched to call the order to fire at least warning shots.

Meanwhile, Biden did kill people with his strikes. And it’s very telling that the mainstream media — Reuters, CNN, PBS, NBC etc. don’t publish the amount of casualties.

The USA is the biggest terrorist organization in the world. They think they can bully Yemen because it can’t defend itself against these attacks. The US would never try this against China.

Yemen has also been very clear that they will stop the blockade if “Israel” stops its genocide in Gaza and trade will resume.

Now, where will the situation go from here? I sincerely doubt Biden will do more than fire at Yemen. And I’m not sure for how long he can keep this up. The US is tied up in Ukraine and Palestine and is constantly thinking about China. A ground invasion is off the table; Yemen has resisted against foreign invaders for decades and although they are still being denied their independence (calling Ansarallah “rebels”, for example), they will keep fighting until they receive it.

The world is always watching, and the NATO, Western world order that came about after World War 2 is coming to an end. Already we, Westerners, are telling the world they cannot trust us. We are telling them we will not come to their help in their genocide, South Africa will. We will not come to their help for their independence and sovereignty, Iran and their own movements will. We will attack them at every turn and bomb them from thousands of miles away until they bend the knee and accept the order we made up and we force on them.

But Yemen and South Africa — and countless other movements and countries — show us this order cannot be sustained much longer. They are openly defying this Western order, that proclaimed itself king of the world. And they do it with a smile, because they know that no amount of bombs, no amount of words, no amount of sanctions will stop the inevitable: the world will free itself from the clutch of the imperial eagle.