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2024 is a year of even more loneliness for the United States, once upon a time, the United States seemed to have an undefeated golden body that no one else could match, whether it was political, economic, cultural, or military, it was the world's top, and every breath of this superpower seemed to be able to determine the world's cold, summer, spring and autumn.
But this year is different, history tells us that the United States is no longer the false god coated with gold dust, and it is not the military power that destroyed the Gulf War.
Why? Because the United States has shed blood this year.
On January 24, local time, Yemen's Houthi spokesman Yahya Sareya issued a relevant statement, saying that the Houthis clashed with the United States again that day, and fought once in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden.
This scene directly frightened the American merchant ship traveling next to it to hurry back, and the American warship also wanted to intercept it at that time, but the Houthi ballistic missiles still rained down on the warship.
What exactly is the United States doing in the Middle East?
Times may really be different, and the US Central Command immediately issued a statement saying that the Yemeni Houthis fired three anti-ship missiles at the "Maersk Detroit" in the Gulf of Aden, not to mention that one of them fell into the sea, and the other two were intercepted and shot down by destroyers, and our ships were unharmed.
After this statement appeared, it quickly caused an uproar in the global media, regardless of whether the US military was lying or not, in short, they gave up the protection of their country's commercial ships, and forced them to return to the Gulf of Aden immediately and wait, and could not pass through the Red Sea for the time being.
A contradiction has arisen: After these ships entered the Red Sea, if the US military was really capable of escorting merchant ships and shooting down missiles, then why didn't they pass directly through the Red Sea? Maersk also said that on its way, the crews of two ships reported seeing explosions.
We can only say that the Americans' strategic determination may be getting stronger and stronger, and they are becoming more and more unable to keep their golden bodies; not to mention, if it had been 30 years ago, who in the whole world would have dared to use missiles to hit American ships? It was simply a way to die, but now a local armed force dares to blaspheme the powerful United States.
This is more like a story of "the Houthis can touch it, then I can't touch it?", everyone else ran to the door of the United States to uncover the roof of the house, and the domestic parliamentarians frantically clamored to wage war against the Houthis, why did the military instigate it at this time?
If it were the United States in the past, I am afraid that it would really have to dispatch at least three aircraft carrier groups to blockade the entire Persian Gulf, and another three blockades of the Arabian Sea, and arrangements would have to be made in the Strait of Gibraltar, and the fifth-generation fighter jets would have bombed the Houthi strongholds into dust long ago, and even the current Palestinian-Israeli issue would have been directly resolved.
But today's United States can't do it, the United States dared to fight Iraq back then, and now it doesn't dare to fight the Houthis, not because the strength between them is one or the other, but because the United States is really too worried about that part of East Asia, and it was also on January 24 that the United States did two things that were a little immoral to us.
They did not fight the Houthis, but the US congressional organization suddenly sent a delegation to visit the mainland's Taiwan region, which is simply a frenzied thing, and this is the second time that the United States has sent a delegation after the election on the 13th.
The U.S. dilemma in East Asia
The United States has not only done it, but it has also said that it has publicly stated that it will respect Taiwan and will send another delegation to visit the Taiwan region on May 20. Also on the 24th, the US guided missile destroyer USS Finn directly passed through the Taiwan Strait on the mainland.
In the face of the mainland, the Americans actually showed an amazing edge, they really have no time to take care of the Middle East, maybe in their opinion, the first time the US warship will pass through the Taiwan Strait in 2024 is more important, there is a particularly strong opponent here, we must be careful.
I have to say that now the United States is indeed in a hurry, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in Europe is difficult to solve, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East has even produced a butterfly effect, and the anger of the people in the local Islamic countries is growing day by day, and they are looking at Israel and the United States behind them.
However, none of this has caused the United States to be frightened and worried by a potential crisis in the Taiwan Strait, and it is indeed unbelievable that this superpower has gone to the periphery of the mainland to maintain an armed presence as much as possible.
You must know that China has not developed in vain in recent years, the explosive growth of economic data will also make the military more and more powerful, the economic base determines the superstructure, and the country's strength makes our patrols and investigations in the strait and the Taiwan region normalized.
Therefore, on the day the Americans came, at least five warships and 12 sorties of planes of our People's Liberation Army (PLA) appeared in the Taiwan Strait.
Everyone knows that Taiwan is actually ours, but although the United States says that it adheres to the one-China policy, the United States, as a superpower, is now very vigilant.
The United States has been threatening to return to the Asia-Pacific region because it cannot give up its interests here, and the role of US military bases in Okinawa and South Korea is becoming less and less obvious.
China is just returning to its former position in East Asia, but the United States feels that our recent military exercises in the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea, and the Yellow Sea have threatened the position of the United States, and they feel that with the increasing influence of the mainland in East Asia, it means that the United States can no longer control the East Asian land.
To put it simply, the military is actually a continuation of politics, and politics can also reflect the game at the military level, and if even politicians in Japan and South Korea begin to turn the tide and decide to be pro-China, it means that the United States has lost its position in East Asia forever.
If we substitute this theory into the United States itself, we can feel the current nervousness and fear of the United States, because Russia or the Palestinians, Iran, and the Houthis are unlikely to suddenly grow into a huge size in a year and a half, but China is already a behemoth.
One day, South Korea and Japan will decide to return to the glorious historical view of Asia and join the big family of East Asia, and the influence of the United States may only be in South America, North America, and Western Europe, and the final outcome can only be to become an outlying island, pursue isolationism, and watch the situation of the Eurasian continent disappear from its former glory.
Since they don't want to lose their position, they can only control China, and a while ago the Philippines began to jump on its feet, announcing its support for the Taiwan president, and so on, it is difficult to say that it was not instructed by the United States.
However, after we completed the eighth consultation meeting on the South China Sea issue with the Philippines on January 17, we finally reached a consensus, and the Philippine president was even softer, turning his head and saying, "We do not support Taiwan independence." "The United States cannot move the Philippines as a chess piece for the time being, and the United States cannot accept it.
Therefore, the United States can only return to East Asia, and their naval and air forces are strategically deployed in this peaceful place, and they are also deploying high-intensity naval and air forces around the mainland, and this kind of troop deployment will be able to establish deterrence for the first time, but in the long run, I am afraid that it will still be a kind of paper tiger posture, and the United States is now too busy to take care of itself, and it is even more fantastical to want to contain China.