The direction of things may have surprised many people, and it is becoming more and more interesting.
Recently, Yemen's Houthi rebels have frequently intercepted merchant ships in the Red Sea region, and there has been a lot of noise. On the surface, in order to ensure Israel's maritime material transportation, the United States pulled the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier battle group from the Persian Gulf, plus some of the best in the Red Sea before, as well as Britain, France, and other multinational maritime forces, to form a big alliance.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said it was Operation Prosperity Guardian, led by the United States that focused on security in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
He said the unit's operational goal was to "ensure freedom of navigation for all countries and promote regional security and prosperity."
Before the start of this big move, the United States released its words about how popular its alliance was, attracting many countries to join it. Because of the Houthi attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea, the Red Sea shipping lanes are not clear, and the United States must lead neighboring countries to intervene.
"The United States has secured the participation of Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Egypt and Bahrain, and is lobbying China." ”
It's better to say than to sing, but in fact, as soon as the list of countries participating in Operation Prosperity Guardian came out, it was not the same at all.
There are only 10 countries in total: the United States, the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Seychelles.
Arab countries have largely not joined.
Looking at the list, except for one Bahrain, no one in the Middle East has been involved in this matter.
What does this mean?
First, the United States has unilaterally supported Israel in this conflict, and the Middle East countries are very dissatisfied with it, and the United States is very unpopular.
Second, there is really not much left of the influence of the United States in the Middle East. In the past, can everyone be so faceless to the United States?Apparently not.
Bahrain, the only participating Middle Eastern country, has a land area of about 780 square kilometers and a population of about 1.5 million.
The reason why Bahrain was pulled in is probably purely because the US ** Command is located in Bahrain, and it has to be pretentious, but you don't expect it to do anything.
The other country is even funnier, Seychelle. You may not know where this country is.
To be precise, Seychelles is a small island nation in the Indian Ocean, and it is more than 2,000 kilometers away from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, where Operation Prosperity Guardian is going to secure access.
Seychelles, a small country, can basically be said to have no sense of existence. Not to mention where the country is, many people may not even have heard of this name.
The naval strength of this country is roughly equivalent to - no strength, and it is not much different from the navy of the Great Mongolia.
The ships of its navy, in fact, may not be called ships, they are basically gifts from abroad, and the displacement is one or two hundred tons.
Yes, you read that right, not tens of thousands of tons, but more than 100, early 200s tonnage. A small ship of this tonnage cannot sail from the Seychelles to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Pulling such a small country to make up the numbers shows that few people in the United States are willing to listen to what the United States says. Needless to say, what is this "US-led international grand alliance"?
Among the 10 countries participating in the "Operation Prosperity Guardian", there are North American countries such as Canada, and of course Canada's North America and the United States' North America are not the same North America, and it does not have the ability to go to the Middle East to maintain order.
There are Nordic countries such as Norway and Iberian Peninsula countries such as Spain, in fact, there is no need to analyze it, they have little ability and willingness to run to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
When the United States organized the delegation, it also said that in addition to sending **, these 10 countries are more "providing intelligence support".
These countries with little strength can't come, support you ghost. The so-called "providing intelligence support", I understand it, is to stand aside and watch the play, and fill up the number.
So don't look at the fact that the United States has saved 10 countries to come out, and what it can really fight is that it has now sent the United States, Britain, and France.
Everything else is.
Just when everyone thought that only Britain, the United States and France could fight, but we found that the American aircraft carriers that came over day and night could not fight.
As we said in yesterday's article: "U.S. Aircraft Carriers in Position, Multiple Ships Gather, A Big Show Is About to Begin" that the Houthis attacked two more merchant ships in front of the U.S. aircraft carriers, and the U.S. aircraft carrier battle group did not make any response.
Everyone will definitely wonder: The US aircraft carrier battle group is all in charge, why do the Houthis dare to make a mistake in front of the "heavenly soldiers"!What's even more amazing is that the US aircraft carrier did not react at all!
It turned out that the United States did not want to fight, did not dare to fight, but wanted to have a dialogue with the Houthis, but the embarrassing thing was that the United States put a cold ass on its hot face, and the dialogue was directly rejected.
What is even more infuriating is that the Houthis said that the reason why they rejected the good intentions of the United States was because "communicating with the United States made us lose face."
This, can we not slap our faces like this?You don't hit someone in the face!
It can be seen from this that the United States is really unable to cover the field now. The dignified "heavenly soldiers" actually talked to a small country in such a low voice, and what was even more shameless was that they were even rejected!
I don't know if you still remember that joke on the Internet.
The strength of the Americans: I can fight whoever I want.
The strength of the British: I will fight whoever the United States fights.
Russia's strength: whoever scolds me I hit whom.
The strength of the French: whoever hits me I fight whom.
The strength of a certain big country: I will scold whoever hits me.
The joke also mocks a certain large country.
What about the United States now?It's not just "I don't dare to hit anyone if I want to", but it has been reduced to "I pretend I didn't hear anyone who scolds me!".”
In Iraq and Syria, the United States has even become to the point where "I don't even pretend I don't know who beats me."
In the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the United States has become to the point where "I don't even pretend I don't know who hit me in the face", which is what everyone usually calls "spit on my face".
It is only a short time since the United States occupied Iraq and Afghanistan in the Middle East.
Twenty or thirty years.
The speed of the fall of the "Heavenly Soldier" is indeed a little too fast.
Just when the United States felt that it could not hold its face, the Houthis gave another blow.
Houthi senior Mohammed Boheiti posted on X: "Even if the United States succeeds in mobilizing the whole world, our military operations will not stop ......No matter how much we sacrifice for it. ”
You have mobilized 10 countries, and most of them have made up the numbers, and even if you mobilize the whole world, the Houthis will still be able to defeat them.
On the contrary, it is the United States that does not dare to move.
What to do?Fight, or admit cowardice?
It depends on the choice of the "heavenly soldiers".
It is estimated that everyone is now looking forward to a fight between the "heavenly soldiers" and the small separatist armed forces, in order to prove to the world that the United States is still capable, and to give the public knowledgeables who have been withering for a long time another injection of adrenaline, so that they can also stand up.
Without the fake appearance and pretense of the public knowledge, I really feel lonely.
This article was first published on WeChat***Kunpeng**.