To advance its sinister agenda and with the explicit support of the Obama administration, Saudi Arabia led a coalition of reactionary Arab regimes in launching a massive invasion against Yemen—the most impoverished Arab nation.
The savage offensive came under the specious pretext of restoring Yemen’s fugitive ex-president, Mansur Hadi, a Saudi puppet, to power.
Since the first days of the Saudi onslaught, the United States has been complicit in atrocities committed against Yemenis by supplying military equipment and refuelling Saudi-led coalition jets.
Despite the many tragedies inflicted on Yemeni civilians throughout this catastrophic campaign, one of the most evident outcomes of this unjust war was the deterrent power of the Houthi “Ansarullah” Movement, the Yemeni popular resistance group.
Military specialists argue that Ansarullah has successfully frustrated the aggressors’ military activities and made considerable strides in developing its indigenous military capabilities.
As a result of these accomplishments, the Ansarullah scored great victories vis-à-vis the Saudi-paid mercenaries, spectacularly shocking the regime in Riyadh.
The Yemeni resistance has made significant advances in drone and ballistic missile technology over the past three years, to the point where Aramco’s facilities [Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company] have been repeatedly struck by Yemeni drones and missiles, giving the Yemeni resistance the ability to influence the price of oil on an international scale.
As the raging hostilities between Russia and Ukraine have unleashed an energy crisis worldwide, the Yemeni resistance has gained more sway to either exacerbate or ease the global energy crisis.
This predicament has prompted Biden to work harder than ever to resolve the seven-year-old Yemen impasse, at least temporarily, since increasing oil prices undoubtedly influence every facet of the American economy.
Moreover, due to the unprecedented gasoline price hike in the United States and the subsequent spiralling inflation rates, Biden and his party allies face a formidable challenge in the upcoming midterm congressional elections, as according to a joint “Economist/YouGov” survey conducted last June, 85% of American voters say inflation is a “very serious” or “somewhat serious” problem.
For the first time as the president of the United States, Biden visits the volatile Middle East region, focusing primarily on the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to address the US energy quandary by finding a solution to the protracted conflict in Yemen, hoping to eliminate complications in increasing the Saudi oil output.
Biden is gravely worried that if the conflict in Yemen continues, it would further compound the oil and energy crises in the western hemisphere and that he would lose control of the domestic political situation in the United States.
Like all American imperialists, Biden wishes the Ansarullah Movement to be crushed with all of his heart. Nevertheless, he intended to maintain the fragile ceasefire between Yemeni resistance and Saudi Arabia by exerting additional pressure on the Saudi leadership.