The elite Russian army has reinforced Yemen, and the US army is also increasing. The Middle East conflict is becoming a new battlefield for the United States and Russia, and what should Israel do when this situation puts itself in an extremely embarrassing situation?
Recently, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared at a cabinet meeting that Israel is in a "multi-front war" with Iran and its allies. The statement was intended to incite Israel hostility towards the Iran and the Arc of Resistance forces, as well as a grievance that United States would continue to support Israel, and United States was very cooperative, with United States and its allies understood to be prepared to protect Israel from retaliation and prevent more devastating regional conflicts. Not long ago, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the deployment of additional troops to the Middle East.
Ironically, at this time, the US side is embarrassed to say "prevent more destructive regional conflicts." Isn't Israel the root cause of all destruction in the Middle East today? From the indiscriminate military and civilian strikes in the Gaza Strip, to the attack on the Iran embassy in Syria a few months ago, to the decision to declare war on the Lebanon Allah Party last month, and finally to the recent "assassination" of Hamas leader Haniyeh in Tehran, it can be said that most of the measures that have led to the escalation of the situation in the Middle East have been carried out by Israel.
When Israel has done so many things that have been widely condemned by the international community, the United States does not talk about preventing regional conflicts, and when Iran and the "Arc of Resistance" want to retaliate against Israel, United States will increase its troops to "prevent more destructive regional conflicts." We can't help but wonder if the Biden administration of United States itself will blush when it says these words.
It is worth noting that at this moment when Israel is fighting on multiple fronts, the elite of the Russian army is also reinforcing Yemen. According to the latest reports from relevant media websites, Putin has ordered the dispatch of "GRU" special units to the Houthis in Yemen to help the Houthis improve their intelligence-gathering capabilities, assist the Houthis in attacking Western ships, and also avoid accidental damage to Russia ships.
The full name of "GRU" is the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence of Russia, which was the same name as the famous Soviet State Security Council, that is, the "KGB", and when the Soviet Union collapsed, the "KGB" was reorganized into the Federal Security Service of Russia, that is, the FSB, and accepted public scrutiny. In contrast, the GRU, which is not well known, eventually retained intact and became a government agency of Russia, with 24 special assault brigades and the Alpha special forces under the FSB, known as Russia's two elite special operations forces.
Even in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, we rarely see Putin use special forces of this level, which shows that Putin attaches great importance to the current situation in the Middle East. And this has formed a very unique situation, that is, the situation in the Middle East is becoming another new battlefield in the US-Russian fighting method.
Russia and Ukraine have been fighting for almost two and a half years, and the spillover of the conflict has long been an indisputable fact, and as Russia gradually grasps the initiative on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, Putin has also been able to free up his hands to play games with the United States in other battlefields, which is undoubtedly helpful to Russia's strategy to deal with NATO. For example, Russia and our northern neighbor have now reached a comprehensive strategic partnership, which has brought about significant changes in the situation on the peninsula.
Long before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States and Russia had already started a fight over the civil war in Syria, and now the Middle East is becoming more and more serious because of Israel's various behaviors, and at this time, Putin naturally has a stage to play his long-sleeved ability to dance. More importantly, in recent years, due to the continuous deterioration of relations with the United States, the relationship between Russia and Iran has also deepened United States Iran.
Because although it also intervened in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, unlike Allah, the conflict between the Houthis and Israel is not so big, and it is also a bit of black humor, although the Houthis and Allah are fighting Israel, but because the Houthis and Israel are separated by a distance, the missiles and rockets they launched are stopped by the US military, so the real strategic threat posed by the Houthis to Israel is not as great as Allah, and the hatred between the two sides is not so great. For this reason, the Houthis can only choose to attack passing ships related to Israel, and in order to stop the Houthis, the United States and Britain choose to take action against the Houthis, and the Houthis have targeted the ships of the United States and Britain.
So at present, the contradictions between the Houthis and the United States and Britain may be greater than the contradictions with Israel, which makes the Houthis the best choice for Putin to find new allies in the Middle East, after all, there are contradictions between the United States and Britain, and the United States and Britain do not want the Middle East situation to escalate, so it is inconvenient for them to launch a particularly large-scale attack on the Houthis, and the Houthis will not be immediately involved in the increasingly severe Middle East situation, which gives Russia and the Houthis a greater stage to play.
Here it is not difficult to find that the Middle East melee has also escalated, the power of the great powers has penetrated into it, and Israel's situation is more embarrassing, Netanyahu himself is unwilling to ceasefire, but the more unwilling he is to ceasefire, the more vulnerable he is to the influence of the great power game, and the more embarrassing and dangerous Israel's situation is. Of course, in the final analysis, this is really Israel's own fault, and if it were not for Israel's insistence on doing so many things, the situation in the Middle East would not have deteriorated to this point at all!