No interest in conflict with Yemen: White House
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John Kirby stressed that the US is not seeking any form of conflict with the country.
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National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby on Friday stated that the United States is not interested in pursuing a conflict with Yemen.
"We are not interested in a war with Yemen," Kirby said at a briefing. "We are not interested in a conflict of any kind here."
The remarks were delivered just after the US and the UK conducted a series of strikes targeting Yemeni positions along the Yemeni coast overnight.
The resistance in Yemen has been carrying out operations targeting Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea in an effort to choke the Israeli economy amid the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
On another note, Lieutenant General Douglas A. Sims II, the Director of the Joint Staff, said the United States and the United Kingdom utilized almost 150 different types of ammunition in their attacks on Yemen on Friday.
“There were just over 150 Various munitions used,” Sims shared. “Those munitions came from both maritime platforms as well as air platforms, either British or US in the air."
The Ansar Allah movement vowed to continue its strikes until the genocide on the people of Gaza comes to a complete halt.
During last night's aggression, the Yemeni resistance reported that several of its fighters died as a result of US and UK strikes.
Following the aggression, the leader of the Ansar Allah Movement's Supreme Political Council Mahdi al-Mashat said on Friday that "Yemeni blood is precious" and that the Yemeni Armed Forces' revenge is imminent.
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Earlier today, The Guardian issued a report stating Joe Biden's call to attack Yemen has laid grounds for backfire against his very own policy of avoiding regional war in the Middle East.
Biden's allies claim that an attack was inevitable as the US leader was running out of options amid tensions in the Red Sea, but the possibilities of an escalation in the face of any Western-led aggression in the vicinity was laid out - plain and clear - by Yemen's Ansar Allah.
The US-led maritime coalition, Prosperity Guardian, was disguised as an operation that counters Yemen's actions in the Red Sea to allegedly "bring back stability to the global supply chain", and deflate costs of crude.
Instead, Biden has piled up costs from intercepting Yemeni drones, jeopardized his economy, inflated crude prices, and cognitively paved the way for a regional war.
On another note, oil prices saw an influx following the aggression on Yemen, instigating worries about the escalation of the conflict in the oil-rich region, sources report.
The attack raised crude prices by more than 2% on Friday, with reports estimating that prices have surpassed $75 and could reach $80.
