Strikes against Yemen’s Houthis weren’t carried out to free the Suez Canal shipping lanes only for American ships. They also cleared the way for the world’s traffic, Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and senior director for counterterrorism, said on Newsmax, Sunday.

“The fact is that in the last year and a half, our military vessels have been fired at more than 100 times,” Gorka told Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “A U.S. vessel hasn’t been permitted to traverse that waterway for more than a year.”

Trump, he added, “not only loves America in terms of national security and peace through strength, he is committed to the American economy and to global free trade, and that’s why our daring war fighters did what they did yesterday, to make sure that that seminal shipping lane is open to the world’s traffic, not just American shipping.”

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