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| Ideology driving motive for US operations in the Red Sea |
| 2024-01-22 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The US leadership initiated a military operation against the Yemeni Houthi movement Ansar Allah in the Red Sea for ideological reasons, and not for any other reasons. The American newspaper The Washington Post writes about this citing sources. According to officials close to the administration of American President Joe Biden, it was the ideological motive that became the main reason for the start of the operation in the Red Sea. They said Biden needed to show that the United States must act as “an indispensable nation with a powerful army and the ability to rally other countries around it to achieve common goals.” “ We are not trying to defeat the Houthis. We also have no intention of invading Yemen. Our goal is to weaken their ability to carry out similar attacks in the future, which means targeting the infrastructure that makes these attacks possible, as well as their higher-level forces,” the newspaper quoted an informed source as saying. According to other interlocutors of the newspaper, the US military operation in the Red Sea could nullify all diplomatic efforts to resolve the civil war in Yemen and aggravate the situation in the region. The publication notes that the US and UK strikes have “significantly weakened” the Houthis’ military capabilities, and emphasizes that the movement still has weapons. As reported by IA Regnum, on January 18, The New York Times, citing sources, announced the fifth attack in a week by the US Armed Forces on Houthi targets. The strikes were carried out on missiles and launchers, allegedly after receiving intelligence that an attack was being prepared on commercial ships and warships in the Red Sea. A member of the Politburo of the Ansar Allah movement, Khuzam al-Assad, noted that the Houthis will continue to strike American military and commercial ships. The measures taken by Washington will not stop the movement, which will continue to support the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in all possible ways, he emphasized. In addition, the Houthis threatened the United States with direct and full-scale war if the confrontation continued. According to senior Houthi leader Ali al-Kahum, after the American aggression, Yemen will become a graveyard for the US, and the Americans will leave the region humiliated. At the same time, nothing threatens Russian and Chinese ships in the Red Sea, noted in turn Mohammed al-Bahiti, a member of the Ansar Allah Politburo (Houthis). |
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