Recently, India, a big country in the east, has been very tough, and after its own ships were attacked by drones, it brazenly dispatched five air defense destroyers, including three Calcutta-class and two Visakhapatnam-class, which can theoretically monitor the airspace of up to 4,500 kilometers and intercept air targets about 1,000 kilometers, as if to give the Houthis some color. But if you know the history of India, you will find that the Indian Navy is likely to be "Xiang Zhuang dancing the sword, intended in the bay", and it is likely to be a foreshadowing for the big news in the future.
The reason is very simple, the Indian Navy is equipped with only six shield ships, the most recent of which was launched on December 26 this year. India has dispatched 240 anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft missiles (theoretically), but there are really no ground-attack missiles, and it is impossible to effectively strike at the Houthis. The Indian Navy and Army may have recalled the glory of the past and wanted to play a big game of chess.
We all say that India is a sub-imperialist, the Indians regard themselves as the heirs of the British Empire, and the Indian army remembers the military history, and in the minds of the Indian soldiers, wherever the Indian colonial army fought, it should be their sphere of influence. The Indian Madras and Bengali armies, under the command of their British masters, had attacked Burma, Afghanistan and Tibet, so India regarded these areas as its sphere of influence. As early as the 19th century, the British sent one of India's three major military groups, the Bombay army (the Indian colonial army was divided into three parts: the Madras army, the Bengal army and the Bombay army) stationed in the Gulf of Aden in the Middle East, and used the Gulf of Aden as a base to attack Ethiopia.
During World War I, more than 700,000 Indian soldiers attacked the Ottoman Empire under the command of the British Empire, and 74,187 Indian soldiers were killed in World War I, most of them in the Middle East, and it was Indian soldiers who conquered Baghdad in 1917. After the end of World War I, the Viceroy of India also demanded that Iraq be placed under Indian administration in accordance with tradition, that privileges such as immigrations be granted to Indians, and that 25 million Indians should be immigrated to Iraq. The British Empire's colonial officials in the Middle East unceremoniously rejected the request, but the British and Indian authorities still got a lot of privileges in the Middle East, and the Reserve Bank of India (established in 1935, when the British were the largest shareholder, and the major Indian banks were also shareholders) was given the right to issue currency in the Gulf, and the Gulf rupee in Indian hair was used until 1961, and the Indians received a large amount of seigniorage in the Gulf.
Today's Qatar has a population of 2.94 million, with only a little over 300,000 Arabs from the Cartel tribe, and the rest are mainly Indian-descendants, with nearly 2 million people of Indian descent in Qatar, more than five times the number of Qatar's native residents. These Indians of Qatar have never received much of Qatar's oil and gas wealth, and are engaged in the most tiring and hardest work. Bahrain also accounts for 21% of the country's population, the UAE has 42% of the population, Saudi Arabia has 23% of the population, and Kuwait has 22.5%.
In Mauritius, where 65 per cent of the population is of Indian origin, India supported the seizure of power by ethnic Indians and built a military base on the island of Agalega in Mauritius, effectively controlling Mauritius. Even the Maldives has only 3.5% of the population of Indian origin. India also interfered in the country's internal affairs and stationed troops in this country for 35 years. India took de facto control of the Maldives and Mauritius and participated in the siege of Qatar in the name of these two countries.
In the Indian subcontinent, India has also used immigrants to expand in countries such as Nepal and Sikkim, and it has a lot of experience in uniting the Indian population to make big news, and today Qatar and other countries have US troops stationed in the United States, which can use the power of the United States to deter their own India and population, but if the United States withdraws from the Middle East, then India's opportunity comes. India's sending warships in the Red Sea and other places will not deter the Houthis, but it is very likely to explore a way for future intervention in the Gulf countries. If the big dogs in the Middle East still want to spend money wantonly, India is definitely a potential enemy, they had better buy a few more 052D, import a few more drone production lines, as long as they buy more, as long as they are willing to pay, it is not impossible to summon the dragon......