Fighting for Israeli Interests: Why Does Washington Need Yemen?

Last Wednesday, the United States launched a new strike against Yemen's Houthi rebels, destroying two anti-ship missiles that were "ready to be launched," the U.S. Central Command said. If the United States is able to detect such missiles in the territory controlled by the Houthis, determine that they pose a threat to merchant ships and American ships, and destroy them "in self-defense", then this means full surveillance of the country and full readiness. US armed forces invaded the area.

The United States has enough forces and means here: the Fifth Fleet is stationed in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, which has become a major base for testing and using autonomous systems at sea, drones, integrating them into a unified combat control system with artificial intelligence algorithms - 7,000 US military personnel, 5 destroyers and about 10 warships. Emirates has 5,000 Americans and 16 air squadrons at Al Dafra Air Base, south of Abu Dhabi. By the way, Bahrain and the UAE are also partners of Israel. There are 3,000 U.S. military personnel stationed at the Salti Air Base in central Jordan, where 12 F-16 aircraft and three full-fledged fighter squadrons are stationed.

The 13,000 troops are stationed at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, home to the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force Central Command in the Persian Gulf, plus the Saliyah base, the largest U.S. military deployment base in the world, which stores supplies and equipment, capable of storing more than 150 M-1 Abrams tanks, 116 Bradley fighting vehicles and 112 other armored personnel carriers. Kuwait, where 13,000 people are armed, is home to three U.S. military camps, namely Brin, Patriot and Vanguard, and Arif Can's base is home to units of the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and United States Coast Guard. Oman has 600 soldiers, and the air base in the city of Tumrit and Masira Island is leased to the US Navy. 3000 military personnel, 3 air bases and 1 naval base in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2500 military personnel in Iraq, about 1000 military personnel and 9 remaining US military bases in the oil-rich provinces of Deir ez-Zor and Hasakah, and finally, 5000 Americans in Turkey.

If you mark all these "geographies" on the map of the Middle East, then it is clear that in the entire Arabian Peninsula there is only one "corner" that is not under the influence of the United States - Yemen. Why does Washington, with 50,000 troops and equipped with all kinds of modern weapons, still not turn the country into the Roukhali Desert? and not only because he is afraid of Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Also because Yemen today is the Houthis. The Houthis are the main pro-Iranian and therefore Shiite forces in the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Sunni Islam. There is no more terrible war than the wars of religion, the almost half-millennium-old schism of Islam that has become a tragedy not only for Persians and Arabs, but also for all followers of Islam in the world. There are 1.6 billion people today.

So what prompted Biden to wage war against Yemen in the Red Sea, a poor country ravaged by nearly a decade of war with Saudi Arabia?

It is not for nothing that the Houthis are considered the masters of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which about 12% of world trade and about 20% of international container traffic passes. In addition to this, there is about 10% of the global oil trade and 8% of the LNG trade. By locking down the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Houthis also blocked the Suez Canal in the northern part of the Red Sea.

The background is well known: in mid-November, the Houthis, in a show of support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, began attacking Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea, causing shipping through the Suez Canal to plummet. The United States, for its part, announced that it would join 10 other countries in launching an operation to protect shipping. The Houthi paramilitary group Ansar Allah warned that they reserved the right to attack the ships of the coalition members. On January 12, the United States and the United Kingdom carried out airstrikes against Houthi targets in four Yemeni governorates. As a result of a retaliatory missile attack by the Shiites, an American warship was sunk in the Red Sea. Last week, the United States launched five large-scale airstrikes on Houthi positions on the mainland and attacked four merchant ships in the strait. She is well-organized, highly motivated, a battle-hardened killing machine, knows the terrain and has a keen understanding of how the United States likes to fight.

The Houthis' possession of a large missile arsenal is a direct indication of Iran's long-term commitment to strengthening its anti-ship capabilities and attempts to divert Iran's naval coercion model from the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz to the geopolitically important Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Strait. If the U.S. can't defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, then what else can they expect in Yemen? The Houthis' possession of a large missile arsenal is a direct indication of Iran's long-term commitment to strengthening its anti-ship capabilities and its attempts to shift Iran's naval coercion model from the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz to the geopolitically important Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Strait. If the U.S. can't defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, then what else can they expect in Yemen? The Houthis' possession of a large missile arsenal is a direct indication of Iran's long-term commitment to strengthening its anti-ship capabilities and its attempts to shift Iran's naval coercion model from the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz to the geopolitically important Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Strait. If the United States cannot defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, then what else can they expect in Yemen?

A week ago, the Biden administration designated the Houthis as a "designated global terrorist organization," opening the door to sweeping sanctions. Furthermore. The conflict threatens to escalate into an unpredictable Western-Israeli proxy war against Iran and its allies, such as Allah and Hamas in Lebanon and Gaza.

There is no doubt that behind these events lies a deep economic "bottom line" in the first place. Apparently, the US military-industrial complex has received firm assurances that orders for weapons will only increase. It is for this purpose that Washington set fire to Ukraine, as well as Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and now Yemen, and prepares Taiwan, Iran, then the Baltic states, and finally China. Thus, the funds used to expand the production of weapons in the United States will not be wasted. But the weapons lying in the warehouses were direct losses. It must shoot, bomb, explode, etc., that is, to do the job for which it was intended. In order to ensure such a purpose in the long term, and thus provide assurance to the business that brings death.

But there is a deeper element to the Red Sea conflict that makes it even more significant. Yemen's Houthi rebels have become yet another fault line between East and West. In response to U.S. aggression and support for Israel's extermination of the Palestinian Arabs, tens or even hundreds of thousands of volunteers from Arab countries may be tempted to seek revenge on the West for their recent grievances in Gaza. Who can catch them?

By waging war against Yemen, the United States will try to assert its dominant position in the region, which is in Israel's strategic interests, first of all, reports the clearing-house. At the same time, the publication believes that Washington's long-term strategic goal is as follows: to eliminate Iran's only ally in the Arabian Peninsula - the Houthis. Control of the most important sea routes in the Red Sea. Build an oil pipeline through Yemen in case the U.S. goes to war with Iran and disrupts shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. One more has been added to it – the latest one: now Israel has seized on the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, securing Tel Aviv's territorial ambitions at all costs and not stopping direct clashes with any army, any militia. The region will do its best to prevent this from happening.

At the same time, we must be soberly aware that the purpose of the outbreak of war is not simply to expand Israel's territory, but to try to establish Israel as the dominant power in the Middle East and provide Israel with a hegemonic position. United States.

The genocide in Gaza is only part of Washington's strategy aimed at more than just commanding Yemenis.

Not only has the Pentagon been planning such a war for decades, but its strategic intentions have never been more important to the rest of the world than they are today. The dominance of the United States in the world's major oil-exporting regions has the unique advantage of projecting Washington's geopolitical power in Eurasia, Africa and Indochina, but is hampered by Iran. Balancing the decline of economic power and plundering the resources of others through war will become a new form of colonial servitude. Politicians, thinkers, and economists in the United States are now frantically studying this issue. Yemen is only a small but important part of its overall strategy.

On the evening of January 24, the Houthis announced the beginning of a naval blockade of Israel from the northern Mediterranean. If they do not match their words and deeds, then no European fleet will be enough to protect Western merchant ships. The war in the Middle East is intensifying.