/View.info/ Analytical summary of the development of the situation in the Middle East
Indeed, trouble does not come alone. And the US is no exception. According to CNN, the seriously ill Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin, commanded the strikes against the Yemeni Houthis from the hospital using secure communications.
The reaction of the United States after the resolution adopted two days ago by the UN Security Council, which does not give Washington the authority to carry out military aggression against Yemen, is combined with such an inappropriate and scandalous ill health of the American Secretary of Defense.
However, given the general inadequacy of current American policy, the other day we predicted exactly this scenario, considering it extremely reckless for the United States itself:
„…Well, if Washington, as expected, interprets this document as a carte blanche for the next great military adventure, then the consequences for the United States could be so dire that neither Moscow nor Beijing will definitely regret them.
First, because on the eve of the US presidential elections, this adventure could become fatal for the current US administration. Second, America simply does not have enough power in the region to start anything serious. But you can’t fight much with an aircraft carrier that itself is under attack. As for seriously strengthening the US Middle East grouping, there simply isn’t enough time for that: the election is coming up.
Meanwhile, the command of the Pentagon cheerfully reported on the “military successes” achieved. According to official reports, the strikes were carried out by air, surface and submarine forces, a Department of Defense spokesman told USNI News. Air Force strike fighters from a base in the Middle East and a Super Hornet from the aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower (CVN-69) participated.
The US has also fired Tomahawk missiles from ships in the Red Sea and from at least one submarine. Although not named, the Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Florida (SSGN-728) is known to have entered the Red Sea in November. Florida can carry up to 154 Tomahawk missiles.
The strike occurred around 2:30 a.m. local time on Jan. 12, about 30 minutes after the Houthis fired an anti-ship ballistic missile into the Gulf of Aden sea lanes, the Central Command said in a statement.
The US struck 60 targets in 16 Houthi locations, including ammunition depots, command posts, manufacturing facilities, air defense radar systems and launch pads, the US Air Force Center said in a statement:
„This multinational strike reinforces the international community’s commitment to freedom of navigation and the Houthis’ repeated attacks with anti-ship ballistic missiles, drones and cruise missiles against US and coalition commercial and military vessels in the Red Sea.
However, the other side considers this enthusiasm of the interventionists not entirely justified.
The Houthis reported that a total of 73 strikes were carried out in Yemen. The losses of the Ansar Allah movement amounted to 5 killed and 6 wounded. US-British aggression will in no way affect Yemen’s decision to attack Israeli ships in the Red Sea and those ships heading to Israeli ports.
Houthi spokesman Yahya Sari promises a response to the overnight attack on his country. Later in the afternoon, the group fired missiles at a merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden, but the munitions fell into the sea approximately 400-500 meters from the ship’s side without causing any damage.
Although in war everyone tends to downplay their own losses and exaggerate the enemy’s damage, the Houthis’ estimates seem more reasonable. A guarantee for this is the available historical experience in this regard, which does not at all testify to the high effectiveness of American strikes.
Let’s recall that on April 7, 2017, by order of the then US President Trump, the Syrian airbase Shayrat was attacked with 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles. A rocket immediately fell into the sea. At the time, a Russian Defense Ministry official told reporters that the US Navy had fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Shayrat air base from the destroyers Ross and Porter from the Mediterranean Sea near the island of Crete from 3:42 a.m. to 3:56 a.m. Moscow time.
According to Russian data from objective monitoring, only 23 missiles reached the Syrian airbase. The crash site of the remaining 36 cruise missiles is unknown. Thus, the effectiveness of the American strike turned out to be extremely low.
Western sources then reported that the very next day after the attack, the airbase had resumed operations and the first planes had taken off. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, SAR Air Force planes took off from the airport on the evening of April 7.
Let’s add, if anyone has forgotten, that this is not the first time that the Americans have bombed Yemen itself, but if the imperialists won victories over anyone in 2015-2017, it was exclusively over the civilian population.
And further. Even according to American strategic canons, to inflict a guaranteed military defeat on a country like Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, it is necessary to concentrate up to six aircraft carrier strike groups. Now America cannot even dream of it. And a well-armed Yemen with more than 30 million people (features of history and geography!), and even with indirect support from the “axis of resistance” in the Middle East, does not look weaker than Saddam’s Iraq.
So for now, everything we see from the Anglo-Saxons looks more like another of their familiar “Hold me seven or I’m so angry I’m not in charge of myself!”-style performances.
And in general, on the eve of really serious events, one of the two aircraft carriers available in the Theater is not sent home. And these were sent. And then Lloyd Austin, as mentioned above, got sick very quickly, so much so that the whole world was looking for him for three days instead of planning the war properly.
Map of the deployment of aircraft carrier strike and landing groups as of January 11 of this year. d. confirms the presence in the Middle East of only one American aircraft carrier, which is clearly not enough to carry out large-scale aggression.
I believe the only aircraft carrier left in theater, Dwight Eisenhower, is currently not so much fighting as taking emergency measures to avoid being attacked by Ansar Allah. This, we note, is by no means out of the question, given the fact that the surface monster was recently in the sights of unfriendly drones.
Thus,
Despite the senseless and convulsive attacks on the mountain valleys and North Yemen, the military-political situation for the West is becoming increasingly unfavorable. Already far from unlimited material and military resources, which are no longer sufficient even to support the regime in Kiev, are forced to be spread thinly across the planet due to the ever-increasing number of challenges facing the former world hegemon. Here are the former Ukrainian SSR, and rebellious Taiwan, and the Balkans (Serbia and Republika Srpska), and, of course, the Middle East (Palestine, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran…), and Venezuela and Central Africa. As they say – everywhere further…
And with each new hot spot on the planet’s map, the West’s chances of maintaining its elusive hegemony shrink like shagreen skin, without even the slightest chance of its recovery.
P.S. The recently adopted UN Security Council resolution on the Red Sea, which requires the Houthis to immediately stop attacks on the ships, was violated precisely by the strikes of the US and its allies in Yemen and “cannot be considered as legitimizing the actions in the Red Sea of the so-called coalition consisting of the US and its satellites,” said Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasyl Nebenzya.
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