Editor’s Note: No one has ever seen anything like it in the modern era. Nothing even close! And it’s truly hysterical that this turn of events is even taking place in 2023 as the global Military-Industrial Complex boasts of so many newfangled high tech weapons that can supposedly zap a gnat on your ass. 😊
Houthi Rebels From Yemen Reveal Utter Failure Of The
US Navy & The Decline Of The US Empire!
In fact, the free-fall collapse of the US Empire is so friggin’ dramatic, they’re even singing songs about it—EXCELLENT SONGS!
Really, who would have ever imagined that the now indomitable Houthi Drone Force would paralyze the most powerful navies on Earth?
However, this thing is so much bigger than what it appears to be. It so HUGE that all wars in the future will be waged differently.
No One Has Really Grokked How Big The Suez/Houthi Gambit Is
At the end of the day, one conclusion stands out among all the rest:
What’s the role reversal, you ask?
Inasmuch as Israel’s sugar daddy is the United States, those two stiffs are now playing the “Goliath” of the Third Millennium while the Houthis are obviously “David”. After all, the US Navy is only in the Mediterranean to protect the genocidal Zionist State of Israel.
N.B. Now enjoy the analysis below which shows how the Houthi “David” is easily slaying the U.S. “Goliath”.
The Houthis Have Biden By the Shorthairs
MIKE WHITNEY
The Unz Review
“Yemen has said it would stop the blockade of Israel-bound ships as soon as sufficient food, water and medicine are allowed to enter Gaza. Guess that’s asking too much.” Elizabeth Murray@elizabethmurra
Yemen’s Houthi militia has shown how a small army can take on the American Empire and win. They have shown how courage, resolve and commitment to principle can act as a force-multiplier allowing a much weaker military to ‘punch above its weight’. They’ve also shown that a few well-placed missiles in key locations on the world’s most critical shipping lanes, can send tremors across the global economy and shake the “rules-based order” to its foundations. In short, the Houthis have shown that David can bring down Goliath without breaking a sweat, provided that David maintains his perch along the Bab-al-Mandab Strait.
Here’s what’s going on: The Houthis occupy an area along the narrowest part of the Red Sea that is the most important shipping corridor in the world. It is “responsible for 12% of international trade and almost one-third of global container traffic.” When the movement of ships is disrupted along this waterway, insurance premiums skyrocket, prices on retail merchandise rise, and oil prices go through the roof. That is why western powers are committed to keeping these shipping lanes open at all times whatever the cost. Here’s some background from CNN:
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are stepping up their strikes on ships in the Red Sea, which they say are revenge against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza.
The attacks have forced some of the world’s biggest shipping and oil companies to suspend transit through one of the world’s most important maritime trade routes, which could potentially cause a shock to the global economy.
The Houthis are believed to have been armed and trained by Iran, and there are fears that their attacks could escalate Israel’s war against Hamas into a wider regional conflict. Who Are The Houthis, CNN
At present, these shipping lanes are effectively closed due to Houthis attacks on Israeli-bound vessels. This, in turn, has slowed overall traffic to a crawl. If the current situation persists or gets worse, the impact on the global economy could be catastrophic.
Here’s more from the Washington Post:
On Monday, oil giant BP became the latest company to announce it would be pausing its shipments through the Red Sea. Several shipping companies, including MSC, Maersk, Euronav and the Evergreen Group, have said they are also avoiding the Suez Canal as militants target cargo vessels.
Roughly 10 percent of all maritime oil trade goes through the Red Sea — which connects to the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal. Without access to the Red Sea route, many ships will have to take the far longer and costlier journey around Africa to reach their destinations….
It urged “the global community to continue to pursue every possible diplomatic effort in support of security in and safe navigation through this region that is vital to international trade.”New U.S.-led Red Sea task force won’t stop shipping attacks, Houthis say, Washington Post
It’s worth noting that the Houthis have repeatedly said that ships that are NOT bound for Israeli ports, will not be attacked. But that has not stopped all of the major shipping companies from rerouting their vessels from the Red Sea to the Cape of Good Hope. This alternate route adds weeks to the sailing time forcing carriers to raise their cargo prices and adjust their schedules. Bottom line: The action of the Houthis is going to further boost inflation in western countries pushing their economies into a sharp and protracted nosedive.
Surprisingly, the Houthis do not stand to gain anything for their efforts. In fact, they are putting themselves at great risk (of retaliation by the United States) in order to pressure Israel into stopping its relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip and to allow the starving Palestinian people access to food, water and medical supplies. The Houthis should probably be applauded for their selfless compassion and humanity, but Washington doesn’t see it that way. They don’t think see the Houthis’ action as laudable, virtuous or just. They see it as a challenge to American primacy. They see it as a threat to their regional hegemony and global leadership. They see it as interference in their Gaza policy in which Israel has been granted carte blanche to kill and maim as many Palestinians as it sees fit in order to achieve its own strategic objective, which is Greater Israel. So, what we have is an unstoppable force and an immovable object. We have two opposing points of view, and no way to resolve their differences without a direct military confrontation. That means there’s going to be trouble in the very near future.
And that is why, last Monday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced that he had assembled a ten-member maritime coalition that would patrol the waterways in the Red Sea and defend the “freedom of navigation” in that area. (Coalition members include: Britain, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, and Spain.)
Now a reasonable person might wonder why Austin would cobble together another makeshift military coalition—whose strategic goals are far from clear—instead of first contacting the Houthi leadership to see if a deal could be worked out and a confrontation avoided. But those who have followed US foreign policy for the last 30 years, know that the US does not negotiate with people or countries it considers its inferiors. So, that option was quickly discarded. Instead, the US has decided to pursue its traditional approach to emerging crises, which involves a fair amount of incendiary rhetoric followed by a military hammer-blow. And, that appears to be the direction that things are now headed. Check out this excerpt from an article by John Helmer:
“… on Monday, in the Moscow newspaper Vedomosti, it was reported that Russian experts expect “most likely, the Americans will launch missile and bomb attacks on command centres and military depots of the Houthis, or targeted strikes by special forces may follow in order to eliminate the commanders of the movement. The operation will be roughly comparable to the actions of Western allies in Syria or Iraq.” The newspaper claimed that, according to its source, “the military forces of Saudi Arabia and the UAE may participate in the operation – their armed forces and their proxies have been waging a sluggish war against Iran’s allies in Yemen since 2015. John Helmer, Dancing With Bears
And respected publications in the western media are calling for a war with the Houthis too. This is from The World Socialist Web Site:
The US media is, meanwhile, agitating for the Biden administration to target both Yemen and Iran. In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal wrote, “The press is reporting that the Biden Administration is contemplating the use of military force in response to continuing attacks on commercial shipping by the Houthi militia in Yemen. It’s about time. The Houthi missile attacks pose the most significant threat to global shipping in decades, and they will continue unless a global coalition unites to stop them.”
The Journal continued, “The question is whether the U.S. and other Western navies are merely going to play defense and catch missiles as the Houthis set the terms of battle. Sooner or later a Houthi missile may get past U.S. naval defenses and kill American sailors. Then the White House will have little choice other than to strike back.” The Journal demands that the US escalate against Iran, declaring, “Eventually Iran’s rulers have to know that their assets—military and nuclear—are at risk if they continue to foment disorder, attack U.S. allies, and target American bases or ships.” As Gaza genocide continues, US prepares major escalation of war throughout Middle East, World Socialist Web Site
So, there’s definitely an element within the foreign policy establishment that supports the idea of a war on Yemen. We expect this ‘rush to war’ will gain momentum in the weeks ahead as more ships are diverted to Africa and hostilities continue to mount. But there’s no sign that the Houthis are going to ease up on their demands or abandon the Palestinian cause anytime soon. If anything, they appear to be more resolute than ever as is evident in this quote by Houthi Council member Muhammad al-Bukhaiti,
“Even if America succeeds in mobilizing the entire world, our operations in the Red Sea will not stop unless the massacre in Gaza stops. We will not give up the responsibility of defending the Moustazafeen (oppressed ones) of the Earth.”
There’s not a lot of wiggle-room here. The Houthis want a cessation of the violence and the distribution of humanitarian aid. And they are willing to go to war with the United States to make sure their demands are met. And no one knows better than the Houthis, what that means. During the 9 years they were at war with Saudi Arabia, Washington provided the weapons and embargo-power that led to the deaths of an estimated 377,000 people. “More than half died due to starvation and disease caused by the siege.” (Antiwar.com)
So, the Houthis know what savagery Washington is capable of. Even so, they are not backing down and not caving in. There’s going to be a ceasefire or there’s going to be a war. It’s up to Biden to decide. But if he opts for war, he should realize that it’s not going to be a cakewalk. Oh, no. There are going to be attacks on American bases, American warships and Saudi oil fields and infrastructure. Oil prices will soar, commercial shipping will grind to a standstill, and global equities will tumble. And, all the while, China and Russia will be watching from the sidelines while Uncle Sam drains his last ounce credibility and power down a black hole on the Arabian Peninsula.
This is how Houthi leader Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi summed it up:
“If the US wants to go to war with us, they must know that we are waiting. We want a direct war between Yemen and the US and Israel. We are not afraid of America and all the people of Yemen will stand against them.”
This is a war that the United States can easily avoid by simply ‘doing the right thing’ and approving a ceasefire now. That will bring a swift end to Israel’s atrocities and stop the attacks on commercial shipping at the same time. That’s a solution we can all live with.
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https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-houthis-have-biden-by-the-shorthairs/
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Easy when one side won’t fight…for some unknown reason.
We have a lot more to worry about than shipping lanes . Any thing & anyone can cross our borders . We know that countless got aways are crossing the border. If thousands of kids can cross you think our enemies can’t. Why would people coming here to get a job deliberately avoid the border patrol when they can get a 1200$ check 3 meals a day & a free bus ride to any city they want? Because they are not coming here for jobs. We are afraid of getting to rough with the enemy because of what they might do here
All shipping companies have to do is agree to boycott Israel while it is slaughtering civilians…what’s the problem?
The insurers make the call and shippers obey. The insurers can see that covering any ships using the Red Sea route can be disastrous if the US decides to sink ships at random in a false flag attack to be used as an excuse to launch a war on Yemen and Iran.
Unknown reason? The US is already running short of military stores due to its idiotic support of the Ukrainian criminals in their hopeless war..now it’s shooting down 20k drones with 2 million dollar missiles, and running out of the missiles…And if the Iranians start deploying missiles, US ships will go to the bottom…
Please note:
They are only targeting ships of countries supporting Israel, or headed to Israel ports.
Chinese and Russian ships are being allowed to pass unmolested.
The French, Italians and Spanish pulled out because they just figured that out.
Is the Tahitian Outrigger Navy still in?
Yes! And Thor Heyerdahl III is piloting KON-TIKI 3.
How do you know whose ships are whose?
It sounds like pure speculation. Do the Houthis have teams of researchers with access to corporate and legal records checking out the owners of everything heading their way?
They probably just use the satellite ship tracking website.
It’s like, free.
Or they just use binoculars.
Whichever is Occam’s.
Occam’s says they have no idea, or are told by someone else. Try to use a vessel tracker and figure out which are definitely which.
“binoculars”
lol
The Strait of Aden is only 16 miles across.
The ship tracking site is pretty dang accurate.
All ships are identified.
Not all ships are identified. The map is not the territory. People always forget that with flightaware, too.
Not all ships are identified. The map is not the territory. People always forget that with flightaware, too.
I can literally see a plane on flight aware, go outside, look up and, it’s exactly where it shows on the map.
Most likely an Iranian ship in the vicinity
ships have to plot destinations and have a significant amount of paperwork for manifests and ports’ custom authorities. why is it that people who know nothing on a topic insist on throwing out opinions
Cool. And how do the Houthis know who owns the ship? Do they just look at the registered owner and see if the initials spell out C.I.A. or something?
Someone who actually knows about ships could chime in.
They are getting the data from outside sources, which can penetrate the shell companies….
Maybe there is a big player or two in the background, who gives info to the Houthis.
You know, just like the US giving target coordinates to the Ukrainians.
yep
The US doesn’t really care about the area. I wouldn’t get too excited.
What do you think, is this anon that stupid or a bot. Up stupid, Down bot. Me I think bot, nobody is this stupid.
Who knows what is going to happen. You’re not in the boardroom with lucifer. Don’t fool yourself.
“Don’t ever underestimate the level of stupidity the average web browser comment hound exhibits.”
“A keyboard and web access does not a wise man make. Au contraire. Fools and dumb bells chime in, where wiser men ponder, before typing gibberish.”
You’re so average.
Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or soot-smeared Mumbo-jumbos, must needs die with it.
Thomas Carlyle
Auntie is thinking this will look something like the USS Cole event and that since this included seaborne operations that Admiral Cray-Cray D1ck Levine should be involved command-wise in the proceedings.
Auntie, just to set the record straight “Admiral” Levine is with the “United States Public Health Service”, not the US Navy. The PHS has a commissioned corp, of which I was once a member. My title was “Junior Assistant Health Services Officer”, the equivalent of a Naval junior officer. As far as I know Levine is the first head of the outfit to assume the title of admiral. I guess it was there for the taking.
Eventually a slew of Americans in bodybags will be on the world news and every corner of the world will know as if they do not al ready Just how full of shit these Washington DC assholes actually are .
Churchill said it best “The Americans will eventually do the right thing once they have exhausted all other alternatives”!
I’m not confident that is true any longer
We never do the right thing. That is the fucking problem.
What would Joe do?
What would Joe do?
Ever wonder, if when Joe Biden has a stroke, he smells burning little girl hair?
The US media will suppress the US military and civilian casualty numbers like they did in Afghanistan and they are doing in Iraq and Syria. The US is like a man who only has a hammer so he treats everything like a nail. All the US knows is violence which is why things may spiral out of hand very quickly. Israel is not going to stop its genocide and ethnic cleaning and the US will support them to the hilt or there will be hell to pay; so many honey trap and other compromising photos deals of US politicians. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/maese-czeropski-cardin-staffer-explicit-hearing-room-video-responds
2024 will be very interesting.
I betcha the choice of dates for major actions has something to do with astrology.
Something I have never really examined.
More likely has to do with the US political calendar.
It would be oddly satisfying to discover a connection with planetary alignments and political decision making.
The Houthis didn’t paralyze our Navy… THE LEFT DID!!!!
Obama built that.
The era of behemoth war machines (Tanks, Aircraft carriers, etc.) is drawing to a close.
Carpet bomb yemen into nothing=sorted. Western powers should stop playing with their food and do what is needed to neutralize threats to shipping. Islamic militants only understand one thing…
I agree with you. Neutralize the threat to shipping now by removing the pretender-in-chief from the oval office.
that’s like saying carpet bomb texas, if texas was pretty much all rocks and mountains
We should tend to our own affairs and mind our own damn business.
When the American Empire implodes, and that’s soon follwing the trajectory it’s currently on; that’s what we shall be doing and even that will be hard.
What do you think the Saudis have been doing for the last several years?
Carpet bomb AOC…… …..crabs.
Christmas day has passed. Back to “normal”.
After all, the US Navy is only in the Mediterranean to protect the genocidal Zionist State of Israel.
^ Correct. The United States is so freaking duped!
Don’t they have ship mounted lasers which can down a drone for a few cent’s worth of electricity?
An automatic targeting lasers that can down drone after drone after 62mph drone.
“Nope. We only have missiles at $1 million a pop.”
I could swear I have seen lasers which they claimed can do this…installed on ships, planes, and mobile ground units.
Fiber lasers serve as building blocks for Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s high-energy laser weapon system—each time a new fiber laser amplifier comes out, functionality improves.
Aerial drones are essentially the new improvised explosive devices (IEDs)—they’re relatively cheap and easily weaponized. Weaponized swarms of drones working together on a mission are an asymmetric threat that can quickly turn into an ugly situation. In the future, drones are expected to become faster, more autonomous, more difficult to detect or jam, and deadlier, with more sophisticated swarm attacks.
An arms race of sorts is quietly underway to be able to counter any countermeasures against drones. So the U.S. military is adopting a multilayered counter-drone approach to deal primarily with small drones (classified as Groups 1 and 2)—including commercial ones you can easily buy online and ones with fixed wings that look like tiny airplanes. Pinpoint accuracy at the speed of light makes high-energy lasers, a form of directed energy, one of the most promising options.
Drones can pose a threat within any environment because they’re difficult to spot and shoot down. That’s why, in 2018, Raytheon Intelligence and Space began working on a high-energy laser weapon system to help the U.S. military and its allies defend against them.
“Our defensive laser weapons use automated target cueing and a full spectrum of electro-optical/infrared sensors to track, identify, and quickly take down drones at tactically relevant distances,” says Justin Martin, chief engineer for high-energy lasers at Raytheon Intelligence & Space.
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In 2019, the U.S. Air Force deployed Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s first high-energy laser weapon system (HELWS) overseas (see Fig. 1). It’s certified for combat use and multiple systems are already in theater.
HELWS is a 15-kW-class laser weapon system that fires a silent near-infrared beam of light to shoot down a drone or deliver what’s known as a “hard kill” within the defense realm (see Fig. 2). It’s capable of taking out at least 40 drones coming at it, and has a fairly long (yet undisclosed) range.
https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/14277939/high-energy-laser-weaponry-delivers-speed-of-light-hard-kills-to-drones
15-kW-class laser
What a joke. You can only kill optical sensors with that, if those are unprotected
No.
Yes.
Yeah, pretty cool, but it still has limitations. Lots of them at that, but it doesn’t need reloading every round fer sure.
It was the first thing I thought of when it was mentioned about running out of missiles, etc.
Yeah, they simply just can’t bomb Yemen back into the stone age until AFTER WE DELIBERATELY SINK OUR OWN SHIPS.
‘back into’
Is “Sans western missiles and arms” better?
I’m surprised they aren’t baiting them with the littoral ships that are getting decommissioned because Lockheeb can’t make a boat.
They’re even called Freedom-class, so we could say they hate us for our Freedoms.
They are baiting by holding back the laser weapons.
They have not been using them, as far as I have seen.
Has anyone seen a military laser used in battle?
Are there any videos of military lasers being used in any of the recent conflicts?
And to think All those retarded level IQ muzzies are kicking The Great Satan’s Ass along with Israhell – just goes to show you the difference between being “Intelligent” aka Arrogant & “Street Smart” aka Ruthless. One of the US Warships will be hit by the Houthis or the CIA just in time to strike Iran because the Poor Little MIC needs More Blood & More Profit for Satan of course. It Never Ends.
In just WHAT language does that translate to https://www.timesofisrael.com/larry-silverstein-i-decided-to-rebuild-world-trade-center-just-2-days-post-9-11/
SOME kinda ⚡️ Lightning ⚡️ for sure.
If the nations of the world don’t leave Israel alone, they are going to find out what war and genocide are all about, first hand and in real time.
nations = gentiles
your hubris is noted
Nuke ’em.
I always laff at articles like this that lack understanding. We are allowing them to belittle US and I don’t know why.
But actually, I do. A preacher said a long time ago the time would come when America has the POWER but will be AFRAID to use it.
We can wipe out any of our enemies at anytime but we have become ‘fraidy cats to do so. That time has come…
Wouldn’t it be easier to not carpet bomb cities and make billions of enemies in the process? What did George Washington have to say about this sort of thing?
What are you talking about? If we did that we would have no enemies. Didn’t you read my comment?
“A preacher said”
Yes, a preacher of understanding unlike the ones today at the pulpit. Spewing what they don’t know.
A duck walks into a bar and says “I have ovarian cancer.”
Bartender says “Duck off.”
Have you not noticed who the real enemy is?
The Houthies are badasses. Ask the Saudis.
When you’ve got a bunch of criminally corrupt incompetent amateurs in government, and military, on top of the country in an extreme amount of debt, there is only one direction it will go in, a tumbling fall into the abyss.
It’s the fall of the Roman empire all over again, a repeat of Sodom and Gomorrah of perversion and immorality, another Babylon fallen.
🎵Houthi, Houth,
Houthi, Houth,
Houthi, Houth… 🎶
Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith
I was ’round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
There’s a bigger play at hand: Depop. Somebody is dropping hornets’ nests all over the world and we are going to kill one another in a panic.
When in danger or in doubt,
Run in circles scream and shout.
Robert Heinlein
And the elites and their supply chains for luxury articles production will magically survive.
Sounds like a feasible ‘plan’ to me.
Get out of her my people!
When they are running simultaneously, both, an Open Gates Of Babylon and a Sodom And Gomorrah gambit, you know it’s time to flee from Jerusalem.