The U.S. airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen have led to a further deterioration of the situation in the Middle East. This is a "self-defense" measure taken by the United States against the Houthis after the adoption of a resolution by the UN Security Council. The resolution condemned the Houthi attack on a Saudi oil tanker and authorized countries to carry out escort operations in the Red Sea. Earlier, the US-led "escort coalition" and the Houthis reached a stalemate in the Red Sea, and there were several frictions between the two sides, but no large-scale clashes broke out. U.S. air strikes broke the stalemate and threw the situation into chaos.
There are three noteworthy details of the American air strikes. First, the United States carried out a military strike on Yemen without authorization from the Security Council, which is a violation of Yemen. Russia strongly opposes this and demands that the Security Council urgently convene a meeting to discuss the situation in the Red Sea. U.N. representatives of the United States and Great Britain claimed that they were exercising their right to self-defence to secure commercial shipping lanes. Russia's representative of the United Nations countered that the definition of the right to self-defense did not include the protection of commercial shipping lanes.
Second, Biden of the United States ordered the US military to carry out airstrikes on Yemen without the consent of Congress. This has caused discontent among Democrats, who believe that it violates the U.S. Constitution and that the military action, which involves U.S. allies, could provoke a larger war. Interestingly, Republicans have supported Biden's approach, and their Senate leader Mitch McConnell said it was Biden's "righteous action."
In the end, the U.S. air strikes were not supported by several of its own allies, and France, Italy, and Spain all refused to participate in the U.S. military's operations. Britain participated only in the first round of air strikes, not in the second. Previously, when the United States conducted military operations, allies would help in other ways, if not involved. But this time, America's allies are reluctant to follow, which shows that the US air strikes have deepened the ** of the Western camp.
Some people analyze that the reason why Biden ordered the US military to strike Yemen was not for the interests of the United States, but for himself. Now that the United States has entered the first year, Biden wants to increase his approval rating, he must show the "strength" of the United States internationally, because his foreign policy has been criticized as weak by the Republican Party. But there is a risk in Biden's approach that the strike on the Houthis cannot be escalated into a full-scale war, or he will find himself in a military and political dilemma. And the Houthis are the "best people" in Iran, part of the "arc of resistance". Iran will not sit idly by as a U.S. strike against the Houthis, which poses a great danger.
U.S. airstrikes have also heightened tensions in the Red Sea, with the Houthis announcing that they will impose a Red Sea blockade on the United States and Britain, banning their ships from passing through the Suez Canal-Red Sea route. If the United States does not stop its air strikes against the Houthis, then the entire Gulf region will be affected. This will cause the United States' oil, food*** to deal a serious blow to Biden's election results. It can be seen that Biden's decision to carry out air strikes was an unwise choice.