Yemenâs rebels âwill be completely annihilatedâ, the United States' leader declared on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
And were they?
Er⌠not quite.
Today, 18 months later, the same group, clearly non-annihilated, has just taken command of one of the worldâs most important shipping channels, the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
In fact, a review of the facts shows that the Ansar Allah group (known in the west as the Houthis) has been astonishingly successful, considering that the worldâs richest armies have tried to wipe them out.
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THESE WEALTHY ARMIES TRIED TO DESTROY THEM
As well as the Pentagon, multiple other super-wealthy groups have tried to annihilate them.
-- The Ansar Allah group was attacked by the Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, in intermittent assaults from 2024 onwards.
-- The rebel group was also attacked multiple times by the Yemeni Armed Forces: the country is ruled by a puppet regime loyal to Saudi Arabia and the US.
-- The rebel group was attacked by the British Armed Forces' RAF (Royal Air Force), working with the US.
-- The rebel group was also attacked many times over by the Saudi Armed Forces backed by regional allies like the United Arab Emirates.
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STANDING UP FOR GAZA
There were a number of other achievements by the non-annihilated Ansar Allah group that the US and Israel would like forgotten.
-- The Yemeni rebel group made themselves heroes to many people around the world as the ONLY national-scale group to take an active stand against what was happening in Gaza, where an astonishing number of women and children have been killed or maimed in recent years.
-- In their campaign to halt Israel-bound deliveries, the rebels shot down multiple American MQ-9 Reaper drones, costing more than US$30 million each.
-- The same rebels were so successful in their attacks on shipping, including an American aircraft carrier, that âthe U.S. strikes burned through weapons and munitions at a rate of about $1 billion in the first month alone,â the New York Times reported at the time.
-- The US Navy was so flustered that it accidentally allowed two US$67 million F/A-18 Super Hornets to fall off its flagship aircraft carrier to the bottom of the sea.
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THEY CALLED IT âSUCCESSâ
Of course, the wealthy US and allied forces did have a measure of what they call success before they âpausedâ their attacks on May 6, 2025.
From 15 March to 6 May, the US carried out 339 strikes. As well as killing fighters and destroying buildings, âat least 238 civilians were killed including 24 children,â according to the Yemen Data Project (partly funded by Open Society Foundations). âA further 467 civilians were injured with 31 children amongst them.â
The richest country in the world hitting people in one of the worldâs poorest nations, ultimately on behalf of Israel? Is that what we want to define as success?
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is we need to move away from global rule by the US military-media industrial complex to a multipolar planet which will at least give humanity a chance of living in a fairer, safer world.
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In the real world, it's of course the US and Israel that started a war of aggression against Iran on February 28.
Which incidentally makes it legal, and a question of principle, for third parties to assist Iran in its self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter.
