/ world today news/ Last Wednesday, the Americans launched new strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, destroying two anti-ship missiles “that were ready to be launched,” CENTCOM (US Central Command) said. If the Yankees manage to find such missiles in Houthi-controlled territory and determine that they pose a threat to commercial and US ships and destroy them “in self-defense”, then this means full surveillance of the country and full readiness of the US armed forces to invade this region.
The United States has enough forces and means here: the 5th fleet is based in the capital of Bahrain, Manama, which has become the main base for testing and using maritime autonomous systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, their integration into a unified combat management system using of artificial intelligence algorithms – 7 thousand American servicemen, 5 destroyers and about 10 military boats.
The Emirates have 5,000 Americans and 16 air force squadrons at Al Dhafra Air Base south of Abu Dhabi. By the way, Bahrain and the UAE are also partners of Israel. 3 thousand American soldiers in Jordan, Al-Salti Air Base in the central part of the country, where twelve F-16 aircraft and three full-fledged fighter squadrons are permanently located.
There are also 13,000 troops in Qatar, Al Udeid Air Base, home to the headquarters of the US Central Command in the Persian Gulf, plus the Al-Sailiya base for storing materials and equipment – the largest US military deployment in the world, capable to store more than 150 M-1 Abrams tanks, 116 Bradley fighting vehicles and 112 other armored personnel carriers.
13,000 are under arms in Kuwait, home to three US bases: Buehring, Patriot and Spearhead, and the Arifjan base, which houses units of the US Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard.
600 troops in Oman, where air bases in the city of Tumrit and Masirah Island are leased to the US Navy. 3 thousand troops, three air bases and a naval base in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, 2.5 thousand in Iraq, about a thousand troops and nine remaining US military bases in the oil-rich provinces of Deir ez-Zor and Hasaka, and finally, 5 thousand Americans in Turkey .
If you mark all this “geography” on the map of the Middle East, it will become obvious that in the entire Arabian Peninsula there is only one “corner” free of the American presence – Yemen. Why, with an army of 50,000 men armed with all kinds of modern weapons, has Washington not yet turned this country into one great sandy desert, the Rub al Khali?
Not only because he is afraid after Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Also because Yemen today it is the Houthis. The Houthis are the main pro-Iranian and therefore Shiite power in the Arabian Peninsula, where Sunni Islam originated.
There is no war more terrible than the religious war, and this division of Islam, almost fifteen hundred years old, has become a tragedy not only for the Persians and Arabs, but also for all the followers of Islam in the world, who today number 1.6 billion people.
So what now prompted Biden to go to war in the Red Sea against Yemen, an impoverished country ravaged by nearly a decade of war with the Saudis?
It is not without reason that the Houthis are considered masters of the Bab el Mandeb Strait, through which about 12% of world trade passes, including about 20% of international container traffic. Add to that another roughly 10% of global oil trade and 8% of LNG (liquefied natural gas). By closing Bab el Mandeb, the Houthis also blocked the Suez Canal in the northern part of the Red Sea.
The background is well known: In mid-November, the Houthis, in a show of support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, began attacking Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea, causing a sharp drop in shipping traffic through the Suez. The United States, in turn, announced the start of a maritime defense operation along with ten other countries.
The Houthi paramilitary group Ansar Allah has warned that it reserves the right to attack ships belonging to members of that coalition. On January 12, the Americans and British launched airstrikes against Houthi targets in four provinces of Yemen.
As a result of a retaliatory missile attack by the Shiites, an American warship was sunk in the Red Sea. In the past week, the United States has launched 5 major airstrikes against Houthi positions on the mainland and they have attacked 4 merchant ships in the Strait.
He is a well-organized, highly motivated, battle-hardened killing machine who knows the terrain and has a clear understanding of how the United States prefers to fight its wars.
The Houthis’ extensive missile arsenal points directly to Iran’s long-term focus on strengthening its anti-ship capabilities and an attempt to shift Iran’s model of naval coercion from the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz to the geopolitically important Red Sea and Bab al-Mandeb Strait. And if the United States failed to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, then what is it counting on in Yemen?
A week ago, the Biden administration designated the Houthis a “distinct global terrorist group,” opening the door to sweeping sanctions.
Further more. The conflict is poised to escalate into an unpredictable Western-Israeli proxy war against Iran and its allies such as Hezbollah and Hamas in Lebanon and Gaza. Whether Russia, North Korea and possibly China will support them in this case – the answer is not far away.
There is no doubt that under the guise of these events, above all, there is a deep economic “lining”. Apparently, the US military-industrial complex has received firm assurances that arms orders will now only increase.
It is for this that Washington set fire to Ukraine, as well as Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and now Yemen, and is preparing Taiwan, Iran, followed by the Baltic countries and finally China, to sacrifice their own interests. So dollars to expand American weapons production will not be wasted.
But weapons lying in storage are a direct waste. It should shoot, bomb, blow up, etc., that is, do the job it was designed to do. To ensure such a goal for a long time and therefore to give guarantees to the business that brings death.
But there is an even deeper component to the Red Sea conflict that gives it even greater significance. Yemen’s Houthis have become another fault line between East and West.
In response to American aggression and their support for Israel’s extermination of Arabs in Palestine, tens if not hundreds of thousands of volunteers from Arab countries may want to get even with the West for past grievances in Gaza. And who will be able to hold them back?
According to the Information Clearing House, by starting a war against Yemen, the United States will try to assert its dominance in the region, in line primarily with Israel’s strategic interests.
At the same time, Washington’s long-standing strategic goals are the following, the publication believes: the elimination of Iran’s only ally on the Arabian Peninsula – the Houthis. Take control of the most important sea lanes in the Red Sea. Build an oil pipeline through Yemen in case the United States goes to war with Iran and shipping in the Strait of Hormuz is cut off.
Added to these is another factor – the most recent: now that Israel has embarked on its operation of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians to secure Tel Aviv’s territorial ambitions at all costs, without stopping short of a direct confrontation with any is an army, any militia in the region that will try to prevent this.
At the same time, it must be clearly understood that the goal in the outbreak of the war was not simply the expansion of Israeli territory, but an attempt to establish Israel as the dominant power in the Middle East, which would ensure a hegemonic status for the United States.
The genocide in Gaza is only part of Washington’s strategy for the right to command more than Yemenis. The main target today in this region is Iran, behind which the towers of the Great Wall of China have long been visible, which must also fall at the feet, if not of Biden, then of his successor in the States.
Not only has the Pentagon been planning such a war for decades, but its strategic intentions have never been more vital to the rest of the world than today. US dominance in the world’s main oil-exporting region, which is uniquely positioned to project Washington’s geopolitical power across Eurasia, Africa and Indochina, is hampered by Iran.
Balancing the decline of one’s economic power through wars and the plundering of other people’s resources will become a new form of colonial enslavement.
Politicians, ideologues and economists in the United States are now feverishly working on it. And Yemen is a small but important part of their overall strategy.
On the night of January 24, the Houthis announced the beginning of a naval blockade of Israel from the north, from the Mediterranean Sea. If their words do not match their deeds, then no European squadron will be sufficient to protect Western merchant ships. The war in the Middle East is gaining momentum.
Translation: SM
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