The Red Sea has been buzzing lately, with the Houthis continuing to attack Israeli merchant ships and merchant ships going to Israel, while the United States has announced the formation of a multinational maritime coalition to deter. At present, there are 7 US warships, 1 British warship, and 1 Greek naval ship in the Red Sea, while the Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark have said that they will only send people to coordinate the work, and Spain, Italy, France, and Australia have announced that they will not send ships to participate. But now it's not just the Red Sea, the crisis is starting to spill over.
Recently, an Israeli merchant ship was attacked by drones off the west coast of India, 200 kilometers southwest of Velavol, India, and India is currently investigating the cause of the accident. But soon a Pentagon spokesman said in a statement that the Liberian-flagged, Japanese-owned, Dutch-operated tanker had been hit by a suicide drone launched from Iran. The U.S. Department of Defense has accused Iran of orchestrating the attack, as does Israel, which believes that the attack is unlikely to have been carried out in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, based on the location of the attack, and that Iran directly carried out the attack. However, this may also be a "false flag operation", which will escalate the situation, let India end up and make a scene, and let more allies join the escort formation, which is also very likely.
There is also a risk of spillover from the Red Sea operation. In recent days, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has hinted at a possible attack on ships heading for Israel in the Mediterranean. Brigadier General Nagdi, commander-in-chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, said that if Israel continues to operate, the United States and its allies should expect new resistance forces to emerge and the remaining roads and routes to be closed. The Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz will also become their nightmare, and a tighter trade blockade will be imposed on Israel. In fact, since the new round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, although Iran has not been directly involved in the situation, the Iranian-led "arc of resistance" has actively moved, including armed groups in Syria and Iraq, Allah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen. Soleimani, the former commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, who was previously beheaded by the United States, is the main leader of the "Arc of Resistance", mainly responsible for Iran's training and support of all anti-Israeli forces. According to Soleimani's strategy, Iran will not come forward to fight the United States and Israel, but will build an arc of resistance and borrow the help of many proxies to confront the United States and Israel, distract them and trap them in an endless funnel of war. Although Soleimani has been dead for four years, this strategy is playing a major role in the present, and this time it is enough to show Iran's ability to play chess and the astonishing combat effectiveness of the arc of resistance. The United States also knows very well who is the big boss behind the frequent attacks on US military bases in Iraq and Syria, the Allah Party in Israel, and the big boss behind the Houthis in Yemen blocking the Red Sea, and the bottoms of military hegemony will be stripped off by them.
I didn't dare to fight, so I could only use negotiation to fool around. However, there is no communication channel between the United States and Iran, and these armed groups have refused to talk to the United States, and the United States has been roasted on fire. In this situation, US White House spokesman Kirby recently expressed the hope that China will persuade Iran to let the Houthis stop blocking the shipping lanes. I have to say that Americans always want to be beautiful, and during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, they hoped that China would use its so-called influence to persuade Russia to cease fire, and now let China use its influence to pressure Iran. This is to dig a hole for China, and we will be lobbyists, let us get involved, and then let the United States have the energy to come back and deal with us again? Instead of letting China convince Iran, it is better for the United States to persuade Israel to stop, at least to save the last face. As long as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is not over and China is still developing steadily in the Asia-Pacific region, it will be impossible for the United States to plunge all its forces into the Middle East.