The United States became deeply mired in arrogance, pride, and illusion, mastering the game of political maneuvering while simultaneously activating media deception to convince itself—and others—that it was the most capable and deserving power to be followed. Once illusion and reality merged, and Washington became convinced that the world would conform to everything emanating from its fabricated persona, it began to calculate its policies on that basis.

A single decade in which Yemen appeared as it truly is was enough to expose the falseness, fragility, and sterility of all those calculations when the United States chose recklessness—testing its power and attempting to revive its brutal image in global consciousness through aggression against Yemen. From detailed battle planning, down to determining the number of bombs, fighter jet sorties, and missiles, coupled with the synchronization of a despicable siege, and extending to the confrontation during the two years of the barbaric Israeli aggression and the killing of women, children, and civilians in Gaza, arrogance was the driving force behind drawing the lines and setting the calculations. Suddenly, that same arrogance became a curse, drowning Washington in Arab waters at the hands of Yemenis and severely embarrassing its standing.

Throughout the eight lean years of aggression waged by the coalition to achieve its objectives, developments and realities produced by Yemeni steadfastness and resilience repeatedly forced the United States to invent new methods of pressure and collective punishment against the Yemeni people, after it became clear that previous plans had failed to deliver the intended results.

The de-escalation agreement came as a lifeline for the United States after it had exhausted all its creative capacity in devising tactics to kill women, children, workers, and nomads, steal public sector salaries, and manufacture fuel crises.

American Screaming and Wailing

The American bet remained fixed on the siege as a means to demoralize Yemeni society, deter it from confronting U.S. bullying, and halt the miraculous rise of Yemeni power. Washington escalated the blockade, and during periods of limited easing through United Nations committees, it allowed only minimal supplies to enter the country, under the pretext that Yemeni forces might use certain materials for military manufacturing. Despite this being an implicit acknowledgment of Yemen’s manufacturing capabilities, it exposed an early arrogance aimed at preventing Yemen from possessing weapons, whether domestically produced or imported.

Nevertheless, this marked a step backward for Washington—the same power that “disturbed” the world’s airwaves with its screaming and wailing, accusing Tehran of smuggling weapons to Sana’a. The United States continued to play the role of spiritual father and supreme director of the aggression coalition, holding the first and final word in every operational detail against Yemen, while closely monitoring the impact the siege might have, especially regarding Yemen’s ability to acquire weapons.

Rapid and Alarming Shifts for Washington

During the aggression, while hundreds of airstrikes rained missiles and bombs on Yemenis, Yemeni forces miraculously managed to engineer military transformations that were highly influential despite their simplicity. These developments forced the aggressor powers toward de-escalation and the request for a truce; otherwise, American interests and the Saudi economy were at risk of financial paralysis. At that point, the siege remained the only available card to roll back these alarming shifts to zero and to block Yemenis from continuing their accelerated pace of weapons manufacturing.

After all this effort—working hand in hand with the devil to weaken a people in order to control them—it was only natural that the planners and those claiming extraordinary abilities to understand how to defeat a nation would be shocked. The support operations under the banner of “The Promised Victory and Sacred Jihad” in support of the Palestinian people proved that American arrogance had failed its supposed military masterminds. It became clear that the siege had played a counterproductive role, and what the world witnessed in the support campaign exceeded all expectations.

Besieged Yemen not only proved the futility of the blockade, but—more fundamentally—demonstrated that the American mindset which devised this measure is limited in capacity, possessing no tools for guaranteed victory beyond weapons alone, while lacking any real military or political cunning. Throughout all acts of bullying practiced against the world and Yemen, there was no sophistication in planning or execution—only reliance on so-called “smart weapons.”

The Importance of De-escalation for the Coalition

On the eve of de-escalation with the American-Saudi coalition forces, Yemen already possessed the capability to produce different generations of simple weapons. Even so, these capabilities disturbed American “genius rooms,” prompting a conclusion that to stop Yemen from continuing its military manufacturing path, de-escalation was necessary alongside maintaining the siege. Continuing the war would allow Yemenis to test the weapons they had produced and benefit from identifying weaknesses and flaws. De-escalation, on the other hand, meant Yemeni forces would not use what they had manufactured, removing the incentive to produce and develop more. The continued siege was expected to erode existing capabilities, crush morale, and suppress revolutionary spirit in Yemen.

Such reasoning only confirmed the depth of deficiency and dysfunction within the American mindset and its excessive reliance on arrogance and conceit to convince itself—and attempt to convince others—of the correctness of its approach.

Yemen Breaks What America Forbade the Arabs

Today, Yemen is nearly the strongest power in the region, whether measured by the boldness of its move toward manufacturing—an act effectively forbidden to Arab and Islamic states—or by its possession of advanced weapons that have proven capable of covering long distances and bypassing all layers of tracking and defensive barriers in confronting Zionist tyrannies.

Before the siege, Yemen manufactured weapons; after the siege, the achievement became strategic and astonishing. The siege card, designed to pressure people and prevent them from acquiring weapons, had previously been used for years against the Islamic Republic, which became the first model for turning this American card into a joke and an object of ridicule. Instead of destroying the “enemy,” it became a catalyst for acquiring high-level, advanced weaponry, contrary to the illusions of newly emerged strategists who believed the siege to be decisive.

From the Bullet to the Missile: “Made in Yemen”

From the first presidency of the criminal “Trump,” through “Biden,” and with the return of the deranged “Trump,” three U.S. presidential terms and multiple teams of planners and “hallucinators” agreed that besieging free Yemenis would crush their ambition to possess weapons. Their calculations focused solely on procurement and purchasing. The result, however, was that Yemen manufactured everything it needed—from the bullet to the missile—using modern technology, embedding a doctrine of self-reliance within Yemeni society. Once this path was chosen, it became impossible to reverse it or return to dependence on what colonial and hegemonic states produce.