On August 30, 2021, the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan ended with a hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops as the last U.S. military plane took off from Kabul International Airport. The scene of a large number of Afghan civilians working for the US military risking their lives to climb onto the US military C-17 transport plane and be dropped from the sky is still fresh in everyone's memory.
Since then, the US military seems to have suffered from guerrilla "phobia", and in Iraq, Syria, and other places, US military bases have been frequently attacked, and even bombed six times by Iranian missiles at high frequency, with the result that the US military has shown an unprecedented "gentlemanly demeanor." Whether the outside world believes it or not, we don't have dead people anyway, and this matter is over.
This time I went to the Red Sea in the Middle East, and the style of painting was surprisingly consistent. At a time when the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has become the focus of global attention, and Arab and Islamic countries in the Middle East are verbally criticizing and actively denouncing Israel, the United States and Britain have dispatched aircraft carrier formations and a large number of ** troops to the Middle East to give Israel a town.
The entire Islamic world has played an asymmetrical war with the United States again, and while the US military bases in Iraq have been frequently attacked, this time even the ** in the Red Sea has been directly attacked by the Houthis in Yemen.
According to a statement issued by the U.S. Command, three merchant ships were attacked by drones and missiles while operating in the Red Sea, and the U.S. Clauderie Cruising nearby was rescued and shot down three drones using carrier-based air defense. The entire attack lasted more than 5 hours.
Biden ** Needless to say, of course, it is "big things are small, small things are turned into small things", so many cold guns and cold guns have been carried in front, and there are no dead people who intercepted a few salutes this time, so I quickly fooled around with one eye open.
However, the U.S. side is full of complaints about this matter, and Biden's senior response, such as the spokesperson of the U.S. Department of Defense and White House adviser Jake Sullivan, said that the United States "cannot assess" whether the U.S. Carney is the target of the attack.
According to the Pentagon, you would be hard-pressed to find another opportunity to see the United States being so challenged in the region because ours has already acted in self-defense to shoot down approaching aircraft. The meaning of the message could not be clearer, the American destroyer was directly attacked.
Military hardliners, including Grady, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are ready to make a move to give this incident a higher characterization. He said that the Houthi attack on international shipping in the Red Sea is a major event, and to a large extent, it is the expansion and horizontal escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Including the former U.S. Intelligence Agency (CIA) Portopolos and the former U.S. Fifth Fleet commander and retired Vice Admiral Miller all jumped out one after another to put pressure on Biden, hoping that the United States would have a tougher stance on this matter.
Compared with the United States** and the military's approach of calming down the people, Yemen's Houthis dare to act. Its spokesman generously declared responsibility for the attack and gave high-sounding reasons that the Israeli ship had been attacked on its own accord in defiance of Houthi warnings.
Compared with this open attack by the slipper army, the US military has already lost face in the Persian Gulf last month. On 27 November, the aircraft carrier battle group headed by the USS Eisenhower cruised to the waters near Iran to carry out strategic deterrence against Iran.
When the Iranian Navy found out, it made a big deal of it, directly sent drones to fly over the heads of the US aircraft carrier battle group, and ordered the US military helicopters to land.
You know what? The U.S. military did not shoot down the Iranian drone, which seriously threatened the safety of the aircraft carrier, and obediently recalled *** to the deck. This humiliating scene was recorded by Iranian drones throughout the whole process, and was widely disseminated to the outside world, humiliating the US military fiercely.
Ridicule is ridicule, and the performance of the US military in being able to bend and stretch and endure humiliation is also impressive. As the saying goes, if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, but I didn't expect the Blue Star First Army to learn it. You must know that 30 years ago, the U.S. military would start wars everywhere with just a bag of laundry detergent and a **, and easily overthrow the regimes of one country after another.
Why is it that this year's US military "bears" have no bottom line, they have to stand up when they are beaten, and they still take the initiative to find themselves under the stairs?
This is mainly directly related to the current strategic environment of the United States. As the saying goes, "when the cannon goes off, ten thousand taels", modern high-intensity local wars are not only fought with first-class equipment, but also with the logistics system.
Is the United States short of money right now? The factor of removing the dollar money printing machine is actually quite lacking. On the one hand, the U.S. national debt has exceeded a record 33 trillion, and the U.S. fiscal deficit in fiscal year 2023 has reached nearly 17 trillion US dollars, it can be said that there are 7 pots and 10 pots, and they have moved left and right. The only thing that can be counted on is to constantly play the game of raising the debt ceiling and creating incremental liquidity through the money printing machine.
The plate is such a plate, the key is that there are too many places to spend money now, and just supporting Ukraine has taken away a lot of liquidity and arms stocks from the US treasury, and the sudden outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict during this period is another exposure that spends money like water.
In addition to cash and arms support, the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet, which was originally on standby for recuperation, had to be dispatched for combat readiness, which was a large additional expense. In addition to these hot spots, the United States is always concerned about the Asia-Pacific region, and its increasingly dispersed resources should be left as much room as possible to maintain strategic balance.
Therefore, when many "little ghosts" took the initiative to entangle themselves, the United States continued to avoid war in a very rare posture and did not end up easily. To put it bluntly, at a time when strategic resources are seriously overdrawn, the United States is trying its best to avoid "breaking the ground" ahead of schedule.
As the so-called feng shui takes turns, these small countries in the Middle East and Central Asia have been bombed for so many years, and it is finally their turn to find a place!