{"id":252876,"date":"2024-01-29T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=252876"},"modified":"2024-01-24T10:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T10:02:50","slug":"the-biden-administrations-absurd-justification-for-its-yemen-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/the-biden-administrations-absurd-justification-for-its-yemen-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biden Administration\u2019s Absurd Justification for Its Yemen War"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>The unspoken premise behind this justification is that an active genocide should be permitted to continue with zero economic repercussions of any kind, for Israel or anyone else. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>23 Jan 2024<\/em> &#8211; Yesterday the US launched its <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2024\/01\/22\/us-and-uk-launch-more-strikes-in-yemen-as-us-names-new-war-against-the-houthis\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eighth wave of airstrikes<\/a> in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/biden-has-started-another-us-war\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new war<\/a> against Yemeni forces, which it has now formally titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatashaBertrand\/status\/1749518861408280931\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Operation Poseidon Archer<\/a>\u201d. The strikes are aimed at breaking a Red Sea <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/when-yemen-does-it-its-terrorism\" >shipping blockade<\/a> which the de facto authorities in Yemen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/western-empire-bombs-yemen-to-protect\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have implemented<\/a> to pressure Israel and its allies into ceasing the genocidal onslaught in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/briefings\/department-press-briefing-january-22-2024\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press briefing<\/a> on Monday, Principal Deputy State Department Spokesperson Vedant Patel uttered a now-familiar Biden administration line when asked if the war would escalate to involve US boots on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, as it relates to the Houthis, the United States is not interested in any escalation, but it is never acceptable for malign actors to target international vessels, to target legitimate commerce that is flowing through the Red Sea,\u201d Patel said. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about international waters that allow 30 percent of global container shipping to flow through those waters\u200a\u2014\u200a15 percent of seaborne trade. This is a waterway that is vital. And we will always take appropriate steps to hold those accountable that put things like legitimate commerce, civilians, U.S. personnel, in harm\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"State Department Briefing With Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel 1\/22\/24\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bUgg348Rn8M?start=2120&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2024\/01\/23\/the-biden-administrations-absurd-justification-for-its-yemen-war\/\" >TO CONTINUE READING PLEASE Go to Original &#8211; caitlinjohnstone.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 Jan 2024 &#8211; The unspoken premise behind this justification is that an active genocide should be permitted to continue with zero economic repercussions of any kind, for Israel or anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":180156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1126,1050,88,112,70,481,174],"class_list":["post-252876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-israel","tag-pentagon","tag-usa","tag-warfare","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252878,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252876\/revisions\/252878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}