This is how the “Marines” fled Sana’a

Exclusive – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:

Report: Salah Al-Din bin Ali

February 11, 2015, was not an ordinary day in the Yemeni record of honor, for that day witnessed the fleeing of the US Marine Corps (Marines) from the capital Sana’a, returning at that moment to the bosom of national sovereignty.

On that date and under the impact of the revolution, America fled in humiliation, just as it had fled for a whole year of supporting Gaza with its aircraft carriers moored in the Red Sea under the weight of Yemeni strikes that overturned the maritime balances and revealed the insignificance of the American.

When the US Marine Corps (Marines) forces settled in Sana’a, Washington believed that the Yemeni capital was merely a point on the map of American influence in the Middle East and that its soldiers on Yemeni soil would remain as long as American hegemony remained.

At that time, the US Embassy in Sana’a was like an “operations room” managing the Yemeni scene, outlining the features of policy, imposing decisions, and moving its local tools to ensure that Yemen remained under control. The Marines, with their advanced weapons, were part of this equation as a force guarding American interests in the country.

Despite all of that, on September 21, the immortal day of the revolution, Yemen was on a date with a decisive moment, a moment that ended the era of dictates and brought down Washington’s calculations under the feet of the masses who decided to regain Yemeni decision-making from the clutches of foreign embassies. As the revolution advanced, American influence began to erode gradually until the message reached Washington clearly: “You no longer have a place here.”

At that phase, the US, as usual, tried to maneuver, bargain, and impose new solutions that would maintain its influence, even behind the scenes, but the revolution of September 21 had changed everything. There was no longer room for guardianship, and there was no longer acceptance of the American presence, as well as the presence of the Marine forces that were once a symbol of the presence and might of the capital of the devil.

On February 11, 2015, the decisive moment came. The popular revolution closed the US Embassy and burned the Washington flag that had been raised for decades, and the Marines fled under the pressure of the new reality, without even being able to retain their weapons.

This happened quickly and in a scene that seemed like a re-enactment of the American escape from Saigon, Vietnam. The American soldiers fled hastily, without ceremony, without farewell, and without any display of the power they were accustomed to boasting about. That day was a resounding announcement that the era of American guardianship over Yemen had ended, and that the revolution of September 21 had imposed a new reality in the face of which Washington had no choice but to flee.

The flight of the Marines was but one chapter of the repercussions of the September 21 revolution, which not only toppled American hegemony politically but also laid the foundations for a new equation that redrew the regional scene. That revolution was the signal for the launch of a liberation project that did not stop at the borders of the Yemeni interior but extended to reshape the balance of power in the region.

Since the day of the great American escape, February 11, Washington realized that what had happened was not merely a governmental change or a replacement of political elites, but a strategic earthquake that ended decades of American influence and paved the way for upcoming victories that imposed themselves in the Red Sea, where the American fleets later fled, just as the Marines had fled from Sana’a before them.

Between the escape of the Marines from Sana’a and the withdrawal in the Red Sea, there is a story whose chapters summarize the fall of the guardianship project and the victory of the Yemeni will, which the capital of the devil, Washington, had bet on breaking, only to turn into a hurricane that swept away the dreams of American hegemony to the bottom of the ocean.