Nothing about today’s attack on Sanaa exists in a vacuum, least of all the timing. The Houthis have not launched a single attack on ships in the Red Sea or beyond since February 18, 2025.
The supposed justification—maritime security—is a fiction meant to disguise the real motive-shifting the narrative away from the collapsing economy, the disastrous tariffs crippling American industry, the nosediving stock market, and the relentless assault on immigrants and human rights.
The administration, drowning in self-inflicted economic wreckage, needs a spectacle. Markets are plummeting, tariffs are suffocating trade, inflation is squeezing the working class, and Wall Street has lost confidence in the man who once branded himself as the master of the deal. The failure is undeniable, but the blame must be redirected. Cue the bombs over Sanaa.
The theater of war serves a well-worn function: distraction. No urgent provocation, no recent Houthi attack on shipping, just the convenient opportunity to shift public outrage from domestic catastrophe to yet another manufactured foreign crisis. Americans must now be told that the real enemy is 7,000 miles away in Yemen, not in Washington, where policies are squeezing their paychecks, eroding their freedoms, and stoking division with every passing day.
This is not national security. This is a desperate man lighting the match of war to keep the house from burning down around him. He needs headlines screaming about missiles, explosions, and national resolve—anything but the failures choking his presidency. Those paying attention see through the charade. The American people are being played, yet again, with a bloody spectacle meant to drown out the reality that their leadership has nothing left to offer but destruction and deflection.
