The United States will personally clean up the Houthis, after all, if the Red Sea crisis is not resolved, Israel will have to "starve to death".
In the past two months, the Houthis have gone crazy! Indiscriminately blockade the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and start attacking whenever they disagree, as long as the merchant ships going to and from the Red Sea involve Israel, or the merchant ships that are suspected of obeying the Houthi instructions, they are the targets of their attacks.
In the past half a month since December 1, the Houthis have attacked at least 20 or 30 merchant ships in the Red Sea, and each blow is undoubtedly a slap in the face of the United States, and Israel may never have dreamed that in this Palestinian-Israeli conflict, it was actually held by the Houthis by seven inches.
Although Israel has outstanding military strength in the Middle East, its land area is small, its resources are scarce, and at the same time, it is also beggar-thy-neighbor, and economically it has become an "isolated island" of its own, and more than 90 percent of its resources can only be imported by sea, and the Red Sea is Israel's most important maritime lifeline! More than half of the country's import and export trade depends on the Red Sea transportation.
The port of Eilat, an important Israeli port, admits that profits have plummeted by 80 to 85 percent because of Houthi attacks, and if the attacks continue, Israel will not be able to afford the loss of overseas trade and high transportation costs.
Obviously, the Houthis have opened up a "new front" in the Red Sea through multi-target and high-frequency attacks, which not only makes the United States and Israel very big, but also chokes the throat of the United States and the West to a certain extent by affecting the shipping of the entire Western world to the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East.
In order to protect the Red Sea route, the navies of the United States, Britain, France and Israel sent frigates to protect merchant ships in the Red Sea and intercept Houthi attacks, and the U.S. military recently shot down 14 drones from the Houthis in Yemen, but this "victory" did not make the international shipping industry feel a sense of security.
The Red Sea coastline stretches for more than 2,000 kilometers, and 17,000 freighters pass through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait every day. The Houthi attacks are widespread, suicide drones are cheap and easy to use, and there are still a lot of them, and a few warships are distributed on the sea, which is a drop in the bucket, and the scope of protection is very limited, so there are still many merchant ships attacked, and some European shipping companies have been forced to suspend operations.
In order to solve the problem, the United States has announced that it will unite its Western allies to form a coalition to jointly maintain "peace and stability" in the Red Sea and prevent the Houthis from continuing to attack civilian ships.
It has been very rare in recent years to be able to force the United States to take action in person, and since it suffered heavy losses in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, and other places, the United States basically only dares to come forward to play a "proxy war"? Why did it take matters into its own hands this time?
The reason for this is not complicated, this is the Middle East region, the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict Israel has openly bloodied Gaza, and until now no Arab country has sent troops to support. Now that the Houthis in Yemen have attacked the United States and Israel, if other Arab countries listen to the United States and send troops to fight the Houthis, it is estimated that they will not be able to raise their heads in the Arab world in the future.
As for Israel, although it has recently clamored for directly sending troops to attack the Houthis in Yemen, to tell the truth that it is not good, a small "Hamas" has been beaten in a mess and has suffered heavy losses Allah.
Therefore, if it wants to solve the Houthi forces in Yemen, the United States has no choice but to act as the main force on its own, and then call a few Western brothers to form a coalition army. But even so, it would really be easy to deal with Yemen's Houthi rebels and open up the Red Sea route?
Yemen's Houthi armed forces themselves are not weak, occupying half of Yemen's territory and having hundreds of thousands of well-armed ground troops, far exceeding Hamas, Allah and other forces.
What's more, Yemen's Houthis also have a huge advantage, that is, they are poor enough! It is precisely because they have nothing that they can gamble on everything.
How poor are the Houthis? With a GDP of more than $600 per capita, no Ministry of Defense, no industrial base, no communications centers, not even large urban areas. This also means that the long-term economic blockade and focused bombing of the United States and the West cannot play with him at all, while the Houthis can play a protracted war and a war of attrition with them.
There is no weakness in front of him, and there is a big brother behind him, and such Yemeni Houthis are almost invincible. Saudi Arabia and other GCC states have proven for eight years that it is almost impossible to completely defeat the Houthis.
At present, the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier battle group is already in a hurry sailing towards the Red Sea, and the warships of Japan, Britain, France, and other countries are near Yemen, and they look a bit like they are about to go to war.
But the international situation is changing, and no one knows which one will come first, the accident or tomorrow!