Houthis

In March of 2015, Saudi Arabia with US weapons and intelligence support led a coalition of Arab states to intervene in the civil war in Yemen. This was because the Houthis in Yemen were threatening the oil fields in Saudi Arabia. Trump placed the Houthis on the terror watch list but when Biden came into office he removed the Houthis from the list. He did this so humanitarian aid could reach the people fighting the civil war in Yemen. Now the US is bombing the people in Yemen in an attempt to keep the shipping lanes through the Suez Canal open. The canal is the main way in which Europe gets goods from China. The US gets Chinese goods across the Pacific to California and is not adversely effected by closing the Suez Canal. Critics say that once again the US military is called upon to defend Europe.