Yemen: In a unipolar world, the United States does not hesitate to try to get everyone to adopt American views and pressure every country to obedience. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia represents a clear example of American hegemony over countries that lack sovereignty and independence of decision-making.

It is clear, through a quick review of events, that the Americans were not sincere advisors to their ally, Saudi Arabia, as the Americans allowed the Saudis to declare war on Yemen from Washington on March 26, 2015. Washington did not provide any advice to Saudi Arabia regarding the dangers of war on a country of its neighbors and the costly consequences of this kind of war.

The Saudi regime believed that American support was a guarantee of achieving victory, and the Saudi political and military experience believed that the use of American influence represented a spell sufficient to bring victory and achieve goals.

Saudi Arabia bet on the support of Washington, while the latter was planning to benefit from the war without giving Saudi interests any regard for the dangers that the Kingdom would be exposed to as a result of the war. 

However, Washington did not skimp on the Saudi regime with everything to ensure that Riyadh would be able to continue the war for the eighth year in a row, not out of love for the Saudis, but to ensure the continuation of the implementation of the American agenda to control the Bab al-Mandab and the islands of Yemen in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, with the aim of stifling the expansion of China's commercial empire, which almost overthrows the hegemony of the United States in the global economy.

It seems that the disappointing results that Saudi Arabia reaped from the Yemen war are, in fact, a natural outgrowth of Saudi naive perceptions of war and politics.

Today, Riyadh is waging war on fronts that were not taken into account, during which the closest partner in the coalition, represented in the UAE, has turned into an opponent that does not show any sympathy for the setbacks suffered by the coalition, while the unilateral agendas of Abu Dhabi and the Islah party in Yemen have become a heavy burden. 

During the past three months, Saudi journalists expressed that Riyadh realized that the price of saving the kingdom from the Yemen war requires getting rid of the burden of a heavy coalition that does not care about what Saudi Arabia is exposed to. Some do not rule out that the positions taken by Riyadh with the decision to reduce oil production against American wishes are part of Riyadh’s response to the betrayal it was subjected to by the rest of the allies.