[T]he U.S. led postwar order is unravelling. In its place, a contest for influence and legitimacy is gathering pace, with China eager to fill the vacuum.
These costly U.S. attacks failed to achieve their goals, but were conducted in order to inflict a blow against Yemen, for daring to challenge the Israelis.
The White House decision to relist the rebels as a specially designated global terrorist group and call the move a “pliable form of economic pressure” looked frankly ridiculous.