In a press conference, Joe Biden, President of the United States announced the seizure of United States’ support for the Saudi-led Houthi military surgical operations in Yemen, hinting that the new administration is planning reform in working pattern and will start more active US role in efforts to end the country’s civil war.
“The war and barbaric mentality have created a destructive impact on humanitarianism and a strategic catastrophe,” Joe Biden told diplomats in his first visit to the State Department as POTUS that the war has to end.
Adding to this he said, currently Saudi Arabia also faces missile attacks, UAV drone strikes, and many other threats from Iran-supplied forces in multiple countries. He assured that US is still going to continue to support and help Saudi Arabia defend its territorial integrity and sovereignty of its people.”
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Saudi Arabia also welcomed the President’s remarks, particularly his commitment to the country’s defense and paying heed to the threats against it, remarked the country’s state news agency.
The ending of US support for the Houthi war will not affect any ongoing US operation against the al Qaida, the Yemen-based in the Arabian Peninsula, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.
The Yemen reversal is one of a series of changes that the new President promised in his Presidency speech. He also said that it is a part of a course correction for US foreign policy. This is damage control to what the former President Donald Trump and some Republican-Democratic administrations often aided authoritarian leaders abroad that too in the name of stability.
It also shows Biden highlighting the major humanitarian crisis that the unintentionally United States has helped aggravate.
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The National Security Advisor added that the US has spoken with the senior officials of the UAE and Saudi Arabia to avoid any surprising event with these types of actions so they understand that the decision is happening and they understand our reasoning and intentions behind it.”
The Yemen-Houthi conflict has already claimed tens of thousands of lives, majorly of large numbers of civilians, and has produced the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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A Saudi-led coalition intervened in March 2015 on behalf of the government and enjoyed the backing of the Trump administration, with the war increasingly seen as a proxy conflict between the US and Iran.
With the alarming civilian death toll and rising humanitarian calamity, the United Nations has estimated that 80% of Yemen’s 24 million people are in dire need of an end to US support for the war.
