Ready to do a big job, the United States pulled more than 20 younger brothers into battle
After the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United States did not hesitate to stand on Israel's side and supported Israel's attack on the Hamas militants through armed action, which caused millions of people in the Gaza Strip to face a humanitarian crisis and further aggravated the situation in the Middle East. The actions of the United States have aroused strong resentment from Iran and other Middle Eastern countries and local armed forces in the Middle East.
The United States and Israel are deeply disturbed by the Houthis's repeated use of missiles and drones to attack Israeli ships passing through the Red Sea in support of Hamas forces and opposition to US hegemony. To this end, the United States is preparing to form a multinational escort team. On December 22, a U.S. military official said the United States was considering a strike on Houthi radar facilities to protect ships in the Red Sea.
At the same time, Pentagon spokesman Ryder said that more than 20 countries are ready to join the US-led escort operation in the Red Sea. The coalition includes the United States, the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, the Seychelles and Spain. The United States has called on so many junior brothers to join the escort operation, which may not only protect the ships, but also deliberately start a large-scale war in the Red Sea region.
U.S. Republican Senator Tom Cotton said that although the U.S. military can use force to force the Houthis to stop attacking ships in the Red Sea in a short period of time, it may eventually trigger enemy retaliation, which will lead to the death of U.S. military personnel and damage to the U.S. economy.
U.S. lawmakers are concerned that the U.S. escort operation will cause a large-scale conflict and trigger a revolt throughout the Middle East. You must know that there are many local armed forces in the Middle East that are hostile to the United States, and they all want to expel the US military, and once the United States strikes at the Houthis, it will inevitably trigger a counteroffensive by other armed forces, and the United States will face being beaten by a group. Whether or not to fight the Houthis will have to be carefully considered by the United States.
The Houthis are not sick cats and have mobilized tens of thousands of people to sign up for battle
Although the Houthis are only a local force and are completely incomparable to the US military, they do not retreat at all in the face of bullying by the powerful. According to the National Defense Times, the Houthis are currently mobilizing in areas under their control, hoping to send military personnel to the Gaza Strip to support Hamas to resist the Israel Defense Forces.
Houthi commanders say they have set up military training camps in various places, and tens of thousands of young people have volunteered to participate in the program, Xi combat skills, and many of them have initial combat effectiveness. From a military point of view, if you want to arm tens of thousands of people, you need a lot of weapons and equipment, and you need to send tens of thousands of people to the Gaza Strip, facing layers of obstruction from Israel and the United States, the Houthis have mobilized tens of thousands of people to join the army, in fact, telling the United States that although they are poorly equipped, Israel will persist in the struggle and will not bow to US hegemony.
Since the escalation of the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Houthis have repeatedly launched attacks on Israeli ships passing through the Red Sea, trying to cut off Israel's strategic access to the outside world and obstruct the United States from sending supplies to Israel. You know, the Red Sea is a convenient passage into the Mediterranean Sea and is the main channel for Israel's external dependence. The Houthis, entrenched around the Red Sea, have extensive experience intercepting foreign ships, and attacking Israeli ships is not a difficult task.
The reason why the United States has enlisted its allies to escort ships in the Red Sea is ostensibly to establish a safe green corridor for merchant ships in the Red Sea and protect NATO ships from Houthi drones and missiles, but in fact it is to escort Israel and ensure that Israel's energy supply continues to receive US assistance. The United States wants to escort the ship, the Houthis want to fight, and a bloody storm will sweep across the Red Sea and even the Middle East.
Once the United States takes action, Iran will not sit idly by, and the order in the Middle East will change greatly
The reason for the long-term existence of the Houthis is that they have the support of Iran, which regards the Houthis as its little brother in the Middle East and constantly gives them all kinds of weapons support, hoping that the Houthis will attract the attention of the United States and Israel.
If the US-led multinational coalition strikes the Houthis, it will defeat one of Iran's strategic grasps, so Iran will not sit idly by and watch the Houthis be attacked by the United States. Iran has enough missiles and drones to supply weapons to the Houthis and other juniors at any time. Once the United States makes a move, Iran will naturally support the younger brother.
The Middle East has been turbulent and chaotic by the United States, and the United States does not want to withdraw its troops from Iraq and other places, but has repeatedly supported Israel, intervened in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and disrupted the order in the Middle East.