AhlulBayt News Agency: The United States, driven by arrogance and political overconfidence, built an image of itself through media manipulation and strategic posturing, convincing both itself and others that it was the most capable global power to be followed.
Once Washington fused illusion with self‑perception, it began crafting policies based on this false belief, assuming the world would conform to its projected identity.
A single decade of Yemen’s rise was enough to expose the fragility and emptiness of these assumptions, especially when the U.S. chose reckless aggression in an attempt to reassert its dominance by targeting Yemen.
From detailed war planning—calculating bombs, sorties, and missiles—combined with a suffocating blockade, to two years of Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza, arrogance shaped every decision, only to turn into a curse that dragged Washington into regional waters where Yemen dealt it a humiliating blow.
Throughout eight years of coalition aggression, Yemeni resilience repeatedly forced the U.S. to invent new forms of pressure and collective punishment after earlier strategies failed to achieve their goals.
Eventually, the de‑escalation agreement became Washington’s only escape after exhausting every tactic—from killing civilians to engineering fuel crises and withholding salaries.
American Outcry and Wailing The U.S. continued to rely on the blockade to break Yemeni resolve and halt what it saw as Yemen’s “astonishing rise.”
Even during limited UN‑mediated easing, only a fraction of Yemen’s basic needs were allowed in, under the claim that materials might be used for military production—an admission of Yemen’s growing industrial capability.
Yet this stance contradicted years of U.S. accusations against Iran for allegedly supplying weapons to Yemen, even as Washington directed every detail of the coalition’s operations and monitored the blockade’s impact.
Rapid and Alarming Shifts for Washington Despite relentless airstrikes, Yemeni forces engineered decisive military shifts that forced the coalition toward de‑escalation, as continued conflict threatened U.S. interests and Saudi economic stability.
The blockade became Washington’s last tool to slow Yemen’s rapid weapons development, hoping to freeze progress by preventing real‑world testing.
But the planners were shocked when Yemen’s support operations for Palestine—under “The Promised Victory and Sacred Jihad”—revealed the failure of American strategic thinking.
The blockade backfired, exposing the limits of a mindset reliant on firepower rather than genuine military or political strategy.
The Importance of De‑Escalation for the Coalition By the time de‑escalation began, Yemen had already developed multiple generations of domestically produced weapons.
American analysts concluded that halting Yemen’s battlefield engagement was necessary to slow further development, while maintaining the blockade to drain existing stockpiles and weaken morale.
These assessments revealed deep flaws in U.S. strategic thinking and its reliance on arrogance as a guiding principle.
Yemen Breaks What America Forbade the Arabs Today, Yemen stands on the verge of becoming the region’s strongest power—both through its bold pursuit of domestic military manufacturing and its possession of advanced weapons capable of penetrating sophisticated defenses.
Before the blockade, Yemen produced weapons; after the blockade, its achievements became strategic and transformative—mirroring Iran’s earlier success in turning sanctions into an engine of military advancement.
From the Bullet to the Missile… “Made in Yemen” Across three U.S. administrations—Trump, Biden, and Trump again—Washington assumed that besieging Yemen would crush its ambition to acquire weapons.
The result was the opposite: Yemen now manufactures its entire arsenal domestically, from bullets to missiles, embedding a doctrine of self‑reliance that cannot be reversed.
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