Millions Protest in Yemen after U.S. and U.K. Bombing – Turkey President Warns that Red Sea will now Become a “Bloodbath”
The UK and the U.S. fulfilled their threats to bomb Houthi positions inside Yemen last night, where 5 people were allegedly killed in Yemen. The Houthis, in response to the bombings, reportedly stated that their attacks on ships passing through the Red Sea were not going to stop. "Millions" of people in Yemen reportedly took to the streets to protest. As I have previously reported, the Red Sea war and the shutting down of the commercial shipping route, has affected Europe negatively as it disrupts their oil imports, but it has increased sales of oil from the U.S. by over 1 million barrels a day. So I wouldn't expect the shipping route through the Red Sea to be resolved anytime soon, as this current campaign will drive up the price of oil, just as the U.S. is exporting more oil due to these conflicts in the Red Sea. Resolving this war in the Red Sea would hurt business for the Rockefeller oil industry, even if it costs the lives of Americans serving in the Navy in the area. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned the U.S. and British airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi rebels, saying the attack would turn the Red Sea into a "bloodbath." Iran, along with their ally Russia, have condemned the attacks as "illegal." It was reported last month (December, 2023) that Iran had established a "voluntary navy force" consisting of 33,000 small boats armed with missiles. Iran's English language news site has also recently been posting photos of many "new warships and speedboats" for their navy. The U.S. has been killing people in Yemen since the Obama administration without any formal declaration of war, and Obama was the first President in the history of the U.S. to execute, by drone attack, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen who was living in Yemen without any due process of law. When Trump became President, he continued Obama’s actions by killing more U.S. citizens in Yemen without any trial or due process of law, including an 8-year-old girl, as one of his first actions as President of the United States in 2017. (But he says he doesn't like it when Biden does it.) In November of 2021, the UN Development Program (UNDP) reported that the war in Yemen killed 377,000 people by the end of 2021. Saudi Arabia also has blood on their hands for this war in Yemen since 2015, but in 2023, with the help of China, Saudi Arabia began normalizing relations with Yemen and Iran, and implementing a ceasefire plan in Yemen.