Western mainstream news of a
ceasefire between Yemen and the US really signal an American defeat.
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The American leadership, with president Donald Trump in the lead, has announced that the US is
stopping its massive bombing campaign against Yemen. (While the US usually clings to the fiction that it is not bombing a country but "merely" a movement - namely, Ansar Allah, pejoratively labeled "Houthis" - it has, de facto, been at war with Yemen, most of which Ansar Allah rules.) This also de facto sort-of-ceasefire now - which Trump, for some reason, does not want to call a "deal" (for once) -
has been engineered with the help of Omani mediation; on the American side, Trump's inevitable man-for-everything-and-then-some Steve Witkoff played a role.
What exactly the American announcement means - indeed whether it has an exact meaning known to anyone, especially in a White House
busy with producing pope and Jedi memes - has remained unclear: For instance, has Ansar Allah agreed to desist from
all attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and especially the Bab al Mandab choke-point strait? Or just from attacking US ships? Or merely
American military vessels perhaps? An Ansar Allah spokesman, in any case, stated
that Israeli ships remain targets. Also, as it happened,
Trump informed the media first; the US military second, if at all. Even
Israel - certainly something Trump defers to much more than to his own generals or the American people in general - claimed to have been taken by surprise.
Usually, such questions of scope and procedure really, really matter in grown-up-politics world, but hey, no biggie: it's probably a little too much to expect from the leadership of the "Indispensable Nation" currently very busy with getting "great again" by tanking the world economy through a trade war that isn't merely aggressive but stupid as well as failing on its own very ill-conceived terms.
After all, bombing Yemen for seven weeks was just a matter of life and death - and, as usually, other,
not Americans deaths: Since the fresh US escalation of violence against Yemen in mid-March, American forces have attacked
a thousand targets - according to the US - and they have, as is their wont, massacred civilians, including
migrants targeted with bunker-busting bombs, Israeli-style, as it were.
Comment: Hamas holding Israeli captives is an ongoing calculated requirement in Israel's retaliation. Without the façade of this 'humanitarian' optic, Israel is the murdering psychopathic entity the world must address.