The Biden Administration Has Started a New War in Houthi-Controlled Yemen

In my last article, I mentioned that the United States and the United Kingdom were considering missile and drone strikes in Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on commercial ships linked to the Israeli government. Well, it has finally happened. The Biden administration has unilaterally declared war on Houthi-controlled Yemen and will likely continue to indiscriminately bomb the country for as long as it desires, and the military-industrial complex can rejoice knowing that it will have another war in which to profit, especially because the Russo-Ukrainian War may soon end.

Seemingly out of the blue, the Biden administration, with aid from the British military, escalated the cold war against the Houthis by striking seventy-three times with one hundred fifty pieces of munitions against twenty-eight locations and sixty targets via warplanes, battleships, and submarines. Shortly after the initial strikes, which killed five Houthi fighters, the United States military hit a radar site at a military base near Sanaa, Yemen, and the Houthis have vowed vengeance and a “strong and effective response” and a continued commitment to protect Palestinians from Israeli aggression (the Israeli military has killed almost 24,000 Palestinians in its latest war of retribution for Hamas murdering 1,200 Israelis). Houthi fighters began their retaliatory strikes by unsuccessfully firing an anti-ship cruise missile, which was intercepted by a fighter jet, at an American destroyer and then hitting (but not sinking) the M/V Gibraltar Eagle, which is a Marshall Islands-flagged but Eagle Bulk Shipping-owned (an American company) vessel, and there is now no doubt that the United States is at war with Houthi-controlled Yemen.

Now, Americans just trying to live their lives and mind their own business have to worry about increased terrorist attacks domestically and overseas because of the actions of their government. Of course, we have no say in the policies created by our presidents, and since the 2020 election was really about ousting Donald Trump, most Americans, who were convinced through propaganda and government manipulation of the election that Trump was a fascist evildoer, were ignorant and apathetic to the idea that the Biden administration would fit well into his role as bomber-in-chief.

The Lebanon-based Hezbollah, which is another Iran-backed group allied with Hamas and the Houthis, has also urged the United States to end its unconditional support of the Israeli government and the Benjamin Netanyahu regime (skirmishes between Israel and Hezbollah along the Israeli-Lebanese border have occurred). United States intelligence officers are ramping up propaganda and warning that the group is preparing to attack Americans in the Middle East, and maybe even in the United States (of course, we know from Vault 7 that the CIA is capable of creating a false flag terrorist attack against Americans and putting a fingerprint from a foreign actor on the trail in an effort to have justification to blame another country). So really, the Biden administration is making Americans less safe by increasing the chances of terrorist attacks (whether legitimate foreign attacks or ones created by our own government agencies) and waging a cold war against Iran.

Aside from the fact that Turkey, which is a NATO member, condemned the American airstrikes and believes that the Biden administration is conducting superfluous attacks against the Houthis, even some members of the Democratic Party took to criticizing President Biden for bypassing the Constitution and not letting Congress declare war. Yes, it is true that Article 1 Section 8 Clause 11 gives the sole authority of war making to Congress, but this part of the Constitution is generally ignored, and because of the War Powers Act of 1973, presidents were unconstitutionally handed the power to bomb nations for sixty days before being required to get authorization from Congress (ironically, that law was meant to limit a president’s ability to wage unlimited war, but in reality, it expanded it).

However, Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden did not even need to rely on short-term bombing and drone-strike campaigns. In fact, the Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001 (AUMF) was a blank check provided by Congress for a president to “use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations, or persons.” This dereliction of duty and violation of the separation of powers has led to executive branch-waged wars in several countries and against any organization that might remotely cause problems to the United States and its interests abroad.

The Biden administration may rely on the AUMF to engage in its new war in Yemen, despite not having anything to do with the 9-11 attacks (the Houthis may soon be reclassified as a “specially designated global terrorist” group in order to justify the resources and bombing efforts), and really Congress would be partially to blame, being that it never stopped runaway executive power to unilaterally wage wars. However, Congress could (but will likely not) call a session to ceremonially limit President Biden’s ability to conduct war against the Houthis without a declaration, and even though the Biden administration would likely defy such an effort, at that point, it would become a blatant violation of the Constitution and an impeachable offense. Will the Democratic Party ever impeach one of its own, especially coming up to election season where “democracy is on the ballot” (eye roll)? Of course, we know the answer to that question, but if members of Congress were really that principled and stood up for what they believed in, there would be some political accountability for crimes committed by the current regime. Dictatorial powers are unacceptable in the United States, but unfortunately, they have become all too prevalent.   

Commercial ships traversing the Red Sea will now have to dodge the exchange of fire between the United States and the Houthis, so does this war really make global trade any safer, or is this just an excuse for the Biden administration to wage war and pretend that it has a noble goal? Why does the United States government not reanalyze its unconditional support of Israel? Would not doing so potentially make Americans safer? Does not bombing another country and killing civilians not create even more enemies and international hostility toward Americans (tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Yemen to condemn the United States for committing terrorism against their country and people)?

As the Biden administration engages in or supports its third new war (not counting ramping up hostilities against North Korea, China over Taiwan, Venezuela over Guyana, and Russia throughout Europe), we must consider that the current president is really just a puppet for the military-industrial complex and never wants there to be peace (war is profitable, allows government agencies to expand in power, and turns poor or mediocre presidents into great ones by academic standards). If we want to avoid war with the Houthis and Hezbollah, and ultimately Iran, we must not tolerate sending our men and women overseas to die on behalf of corporations and the interests of the powerful. One way to avoid such a thing would be not to vote for President Biden (or the Democratic Party candidate) in the 2024 election, but since the election will likely be rigged anyway (or at least there will be an attempt to do so by the FBI, CIA, etc.), the deep state will seemingly get its preferred candidate one way or another. It is up to us to make it clear that there is no appetite for another war in this country, and the more that we make it known (on social media or wherever), the better the message spreads.

Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website. For more information on United States involvement in Yemen, and particularly the American-backed Saudi Arabian slaughter and crimes against humanity, see here, here, and here.