Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that potential ground raids on the Houthis in Yemen are not a necessity as of now after U.S. airstrikes launched on the country’s capital city killed 30 of the terrorist group’s rebels.
Speaking on CBS News’s Face the Nation, Rubio said any decision on the use of ground raids would ultimately be decided by the U.S. military, but added that he’s “heard no talk” of the tactic and doesn’t think there’s a “necessity for it right now.”
Rubio pointed to the success of the airstrikes launched on Sanaa over the weekend, saying that “key people” of the Houthis involved in attacks on commercial shipping and the U.S. Navy over the last year and a half are now dead, along with the group’s “facilities” being destroyed.
The secretary of state vowed that strikes of that nature will continue until the Houthis can no longer control commercial shipping in the Red Sea, saying that they are not simply retaliatory like the ones the military conducted during the Biden administration.
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“This is not a message. This is not a one-off. This is an effort to deny them the ability to constrict and control shipping,” Rubio said.
He concluded by saying the United States is doing “the entire world a favor” by eliminating the Houthis’ control over shipping.
