After the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the continuous disturbance of the United States has also aroused the dissatisfaction of many armed groups and countries in the Middle East, and the Houthis in Yemen are now striking a large number of American and Israeli ships in the Red Sea, including interference with the continuous launch of drones and missiles by warships, as well as direct attacks on merchant ships. It is not difficult to see from some information disclosed by the media that ships of Western countries have been attacked in the past period of time, and after the Houthis in Yemen continued to launch strikes, the United States also dispatched a number of Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyers as soon as possible, and strongly invited a number of overseas countries to jointly complete the so-called escort operations in the Red Sea.
Did the U.S. escort really work? The war research institute believes that this is actually just an opportunity for the United States and some NATO member states to show off their actual combat results, because in these escort operations, the warships of Western countries have not really protected the safety of the merchant ships coming and going, and even a large number of merchant ships are still being attacked. The results of the drone intercepted by the US warship are actually a way for the United States to show off its air defense interception strength, but now the United States is gradually realizing that if you want to really protect the safety of these merchant ships, you actually do not need to rely on a large number of US warships, but rely on Chinese merchant ships, because the Yemeni Houthis have made it clear that they will not launch any strikes against Chinese merchant ships, which is also because China and the Yemeni Houthis have no grievances.
According to a recent article published by the U.S. Maritime Executive magazine, the U.S. side seems to have found a better way to allow U.S. and other Western ships to pass safely through the Red Sea, as long as they find Chinese merchant ships in their shipping lanes and let them follow Chinese merchant ships through the Red Sea, then they can avoid being attacked by the Houthis. Although the Houthis have a series of ballistic missiles, the Houthis do not have the confidence to guarantee that these ballistic missiles will not accidentally hit Chinese ships during the operation, and once the missiles hit the Chinese ships, it will also be a big trouble for the Houthis, so now the idea of the United States is to use Chinese merchant ships as meat shields.
Although the Yemeni Houthis claim to have a large number of ballistic missiles and various anti-ship missiles, in fact, the accuracy of these missiles is relatively limited, so in the process of attacking US warships, most of them have not been able to succeed, and if the Yemeni Houthis rashly use these missiles to launch strikes on US warships near Chinese merchant ships in the future, then the war research believes that due to the accuracy of the missiles and a series of reasons, these strikes are also likely to fail, and once they hit the ships flying the Chinese flag, Then the Houthis are tantamount to offending China, and for the Yemeni Houthis, the most taboo thing now is to offend China.
The United States knows that its surface ships are the number one target of the Houthis in Yemen, but now it wants to let Chinese merchant ships make meat shields for the United States, although the United States has resorted to despicable methods, but the Houthis also have to think twice, if the Yemeni Houthis rashly attack, and caused a miscalculation, then the Houthis will be kicked to the iron plate, and it is not ruled out at all that the PLA warships operating in the vicinity will directly intervene. Text/Iris