The Houthi attacks on vessels trading with ZOG is a classic case of the GAE's military might being finely tuned for fighting an army from 60 years ago, but ineffective versus independent guerrila forces.
Broadly speaking, (1)
using force alone to obtain a goal never succeeds against a determined adversary.
The example I always use is trannies, something that I will never accept under any circumstance.
If the US government wants to use their default tool, violent force, to make me accept the tranny agenda, they could take me into a room, waterboard me, have women pee and poo on me, blaspheme my holy book, and hook electrodes up to my private parts, as they are want to do. And perhaps at some point I would say whatever the bad man wanted to make the pain stop.
But
the moment zir left the room, any belief in trannies would be instantly gone.
There is simply no way to use force to oppose a strong moral conviction.
In the case of the Houthis, they have decided that the murder and genocide of Palestinians is important enough to them that they will risk their own lives and well being to fight for it. This is not the kind of movement one easily defeats. Really the only way to do so with force is to genocide the entire people, and, if one may somehow consider that as an intellectual option, one only needs to look to Israel to see how poorly such a strategy works.
The second issue is (2)
the mismatch of US aircraft carriers versus hit and run rocket attacks. The carriers carry a fixed amount of ammunition that can be used to repel these missile attacks. In order to effectively stop one of these missiles, the carriers must expend a large amount (I read the actual numbers recently but since internet search is broken I cannot easily find the source) of munitions, and after a few days of such countermeasures, the ship's reserves are expended and it must sail away to port, which takes the ship out of commission for weeks.
Then there is the case that even if increased military aggression could prove effective in reducing missile attacks, it would be (3)
counterindicated to the actual mission, which is allowing commercial shipping vessels to freely operate.
Escalation against the Houthis is a phenomenally stupid idea.
daniellarison.substack.com
Escalation against the Houthis is a phenomenally stupid idea. For one thing, turning a nuisance into a full-blown war will not secure shipping through the Red Sea. It will interrupt commercial shipping even more. If shipping companies are nervous about being shot at with drones and missiles now, they will absolutely refuse to send their ships through an active war zone. The problem that the military action is ostensibly meant to solve will become ten times worse.
(4)
Military aggression has already been tried against the Houthis, and this wasn't even during a Palestinian genocide, which is what has caused them to step up their resolve. The Obama administration started a $100B (yes BILLION) proxy war in Yemen, which failed.
The human costs of facilitating Saudi Arabia’s proxy war
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The Pentagon outfitted the Saudi-UAE effort with $100 billion dollars in modern weaponry, as well as logistical support and diplomatic cover for the horrific embargo on the port of Hodeidah. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people, a high number of them children, died in a man-made famine during this blockade.
It wasn’t enough to break the Houthis. As the
Ottomans,
British, and most recently the Saudis have learned, Yemen is a furnace that melts armies.
Houthi Heart Tests World Zionism
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The final blow to the Saudis came in September 2019, when the Houthis began Operation Victory From God. Houthi forces lured the Saudi military into a massive ambush, killing
500 coalition soldiers and capturing thousands more.
As the Houthis paraded scores of captured enemy soldiers and vehicles, they shocked the world again with a massive drone attack in the Saudi heartland, wrecking two oil refineries and
triggering the largest sudden spike in global energy prices in history. The plucky Houthis forced Riyadh to its knees, and soon after to
the negotiating table.
Of course military aggression was also tried against the Iraqis, and the Afghans, and the Vietnamese, etc. etc. and failed every time also.
The idea that the US is being held back by some sort of sense of cautiousness (lol) or fear of failure, or "cos sleepy Joe" is simply not credible.
(5) The
aircraft carrier is not an effective tool to open commercial shipping (and many believe it is completely outdated for any military use).
The cost of using expensive naval missiles — which can run up to $2.1 million a shot — to destroy unsophisticated Houthi drones — estimated at a few thousand dollars each — is a growing concern
each ship contains 90 or more missile tubes.
On Saturday alone, the destroyer USS Carney intercepted 14 one-way attack drones.
Regardless, the Houthi's have made their position clear:
Allow humanitarian aid to Gaza, or the Red Sea is closed to commercial shipping. There is an obvious and simple way to reopen the ports, and it doesn't require anything other than a basic sense of decency.
Of course, the simple, moral, and logical choice has no chance. American foreign policy is based entirely off emotion and Jewish control.
Nineteen nations have signed on to the task force, including some Arab partners, but only nine want to attach their names to the effort
lol
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