The French newspaper Le Monde diplomatique published an extensive report evaluating the outcomes of the confrontation between Yemen and the US in the Red Sea, concluding that the balance of the battle favors Sana’a, describing the scene with a striking symbolic title: “Sana’a: One, Washington: Zero.”
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The report clarified that the Yemenis have been confronting the US, Saudi Arabia, and the Zionist entity for more than two decades, since they emerged as a military force in 2004 in protest against the American invasion of Iraq and the Zionist occupation of Palestine.
The newspaper considered that the confrontation entered a new phase after the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation on October 7, 2023, when the Yemeni forces moved to impose a naval blockade on Israeli ships and prevent them from crossing the Red and the Arabian Seas in support of Gaza, using fast boats, missiles, drones, and locally manufactured unmanned naval vehicles.
The newspaper added that Washington treated the Yemeni operations as a strategic threat to freedom of navigation, so it launched a broad military campaign and sent its fleets to the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait. However, the results were “catastrophic,” in its words; two US elite forces soldiers drowned while attempting to board a Yemeni boat, the destroyer “USS Gettysburg” accidentally shot down an “F/A-18 Super Hornet” fighter jet, and the aircraft carrier “Harry Truman” collided with an Egyptian commercial ship.
Le Monde diplomatique pointed out that US President Donald Trump, after returning to the White House, escalated the war by declaring the Ansar Allah movement a “terrorist organization” and sent massive naval and air reinforcements, including an additional aircraft carrier whose operational cost exceeds six million dollars per day, “B-2” stealth aircraft costing ninety thousand dollars per hour each, and interceptor missiles priced at over two and a half million dollars each.
But despite this escalation, the newspaper says the Yemeni forces continued their resistance “with creativity and courage,” shooting down US “Reaper” spy drones, nearly hitting “F-16” and “F-35” aircraft, and breaching air defenses to strike targets in the occupied Palestinian territories. Their naval operations caused a sixty percent decline in navigation traffic in the Red Sea.
The newspaper documented an incident of American bombing of a detention center in Sa’ada that killed sixty-eight people, followed by a fierce Yemeni response involving the launch of ballistic missiles at the “Truman” aircraft carrier, which was forced to withdraw—a scene Le Monde diplomatique considered “the turning point that militarily humiliated Washington.”
The newspaper added that the US exhausted, within approximately one month, most of its stockpile of guided missiles without achieving air superiority over “the poorest country in the region,” noting that the US command later announced the cessation of its operations under the name “Operation Rough Rider,” in a practical admission of failure.
Le Monde diplomatique concluded its report by quoting a statement from Trump in which he said, “We hit them hard, but they proved to have a tremendous capacity for endurance; one could say they have great courage.” The newspaper thus concluded that what happened “constitutes the first actual military victory for Yemen against the US in modern history.”
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