'Biden said last year at this time that he wanted to end the war, but this appears to be moving the needle in the complete opposite direction.'
on a residential area in Sana'a on Monday, show that the war on Yemen continues to destabilize the region and that civilians are still paying the highest price. Worse, the Biden Administration now says it may re-designate the Houthis as terrorists, which could cut off even more humanitarian aid beyond the current Saudi blockade strangling the country.
The Houthi attacks on Abu Dhabi's airport and an oil facility on Monday killed three civilian workers, and the immediate coalition responseat least 20 people, mostly women and children. While the U.S. and the rest of the world have neglected the conflict and ignored the increasingly dire humanitarian crisis there, the war has intensified again.
The attacks in Abu Dhabi also underscore how the Saudi coalition's intervention in the name of"stabilizing" Yemen has not only devastated Yemen but created greater instability throughout the peninsula. Just as the coalition's intervention has driven Iran and the Houthis closer together than ever before, the war that they have waged nominally in"self-defense" has exposed their countries to greater dangers than they faced seven years ago.
There is very little to distinguish this"strategy" of cozying up to Riyadh from the blank check that the Trump administration gave to the Saudis, and it is not going to end the coalition's part in the war. It remains the case that the U.S. has substantial leverage to push these governments to halt their campaign, but it has to be willing to use it. Biden simply won't take the risk of antagonizing two reckless client governments even when it is clearly in U.S.
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