Author |Yan Chixia.
It is the so-called 30 years in the east of the river, 30 years in the west of the river. Even if it is as strong as the United States, it cannot escape this objective law.
Back in the Gulf War 32 years ago, the United States pulled a number of NATO allies into the Middle East, and everywhere it went, it crushed Iraq's million-strong army in one fell swoop.
In the second Gulf War in 2003, despite the opposition of the United Nations, the British and American coalition forces went all the way to Baghdad and brought the Saddam regime to the end.
At that time, US imperialism in the Middle East could be described as an unscrupulous and lawless existence. As a result, until now, the United States is only left with a tiger skin to hold on.
The Houthis have earlier announced that ships from any country that go to Israel will be targeted, unless they are carrying supplies for Gaza or ships bound for other countries.
The Houthis have done so with one aim: to stop the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip in their own way.
Because over the past few decades, Israel has not only driven countless Palestinians into Gaza, but has also built dozens of kilometers of separation walls and built the world's largest open-air prison.
In order to take full control of the Gaza Strip, Israel has been blocking shipping along the Gaza coast, intercepting or sinking any cargo ship that carries supplies to Gaza.
Now the Houthis state that if food and medicine cannot enter the Gaza Strip, any ship heading for Israel will become a "legitimate target" for the group, and there is no "room for bargaining" in their position.
It is clear that the Houthis blockade Israel will do so as Israel blockades Gaza. If you want to stop the attacks, lift the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
This is precisely the way of treating others with the way of others, and the paper tiger essence of the United States has been ruthlessly exposed. As long as this tiger skin is punctured, there will be a second, a third country that will stand up against the hegemony of US imperialism.
Just on the 23rd, a merchant ship "linked to Israel" was attacked by drones in the waters of the Indian Ocean 1,200 miles off the coast of YemenYou know, this distance is already significantly more than the strike capabilities of Yemeni drones. The only Middle Eastern country that has this ability and is determined to fight the United States and Israel to the end is Iran.
On the same day, Iran said that if the United States and its allies continue to commit crimes in the Gaza Strip, it will prompt the emergence of new resistance forces, and Israel and the United States can soon wait for the blockade of the Mediterranean, the Strait of Gibraltar and other shipping lanes.
As recently as the 24th, the IDF carried out a "massive" strike against Allah in Lebanon. Since the outbreak of the current round of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, cross-border attacks from Lebanon have continued, with large waves of Lebanese rockets hitting communities in northern Israel.
Israel, which has been passively beaten, has said it will no longer tolerate the presence of Allah in its northern border areas.
Although Iran does not have direct access to the Mediterranean, Iranian-backed Lebanese Allah and Syrian armed forces are based on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.
Iran now has a number of home-made "drone carriers" that can control drones to carry out long-range attack missions.
Now the United States is really a headache, the Red Sea crisis has not been resolved, and the Mediterranean Sea is about to have an accident.
Originally, the Red Sea alone was beyond the power of the United States. To deal with a small Houthi, you have to pull in a vote of allies.
The U.S. Secretary of Defense personally flew to the Middle East and announced that he would unite many countries to form a new force to carry out joint patrols in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to protect passing merchant ships in the Red Sea from attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels.
Although the United States has announced that 20 countries will participate, some of them have not yet confirmed that Egypt, a naval power in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and other countries will not take advantage of this stubble at all.
In particular, France, Italy, and Spain, the three major allies of the United States, have all indicated that they will not participate in the US-led "Prosperity Guardian" operation.
Other countries have provided very limited support, such as Australia, the Netherlands and Norway, which have said they will send only men and no ships, with Norway sending 10 navy**, Australia six staff officers, and the Netherlands sending only two.
Only one Britain said it would send a destroyer of the British Royal Navy "Diamond" to the operation.
Now even NATO countries have refused to obey the orders of the United States, and the United States originally wanted to build a multinational navy to strengthen its momentum, but in the end it exposed its true colors as a paper tiger.
By the way, in addition to the United Kingdom, there is another country that has also spoken, and is willing to follow the orders of the United States to send ships to participate in the operation. That's right, it's South Korea.
It seems that the good days of the United States running amok in the Middle East are really over, and now a small Houthi rebel has made the United States lose its temper, and it still needs to find a circle of Western allies to support itself.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that if you want to completely eliminate the threat in the Red Sea, sending a fleet is only a palliative, not a cure, and you must send ground troops to fight the Houthis.
However, once the United States starts to strike, it will inevitably be opposed by more Middle East countries, and then it will set off an even bigger storm, and this is precisely the situation that the United States does not want to see.
Without the support of the ships of the allies, relying on the US Navy alone to be responsible for escort operations in the Red Sea would result in a waste of a large number of anti-aircraft missiles.
After all, the United States chose to use $2 million a piece of air defense missiles to intercept a $2,000 drone, which is really a loss to grandma's family.
In the final analysis, if the United States wants to resolve the Red Sea crisis, there is no better option than to quickly push for a ceasefire between Palestine and Israel.
The United States cannot allow Israel to continue its attacks and blockade of the Gaza Strip while pulling everyone together to protect Israel's sea lanes.
Is the life of the Palestinians not the life of the Israelis?This is the naked double standard.
If the United States and Israel do not give the Palestinians a way out, there is no problem for the Houthis to carry out a counter-blockade of Israel.
The United States cannot stand on the opposite side of the international community and demand that the international community cooperate.
The most shameless thing is that the United States even asked for China's help with a big face, saying that it "welcomes China's constructive role in preventing an attack in the Red Sea."
It's not that the cheeky race over the city wall, I really can't say this. The United States also does not want to think about any country that has encountered porcelain around China's waters, which is not at the behest of the United States.
Let's just say that the Philippines, which has been looking for death, comes to the South China Sea every once in a while to provoke, and the United States dares to say that it is not behind its own ghosts.
Now that something has happened in the Red Sea, the United States can't hold back on its own, and it's beginning to think about China's goodness.
Anyway, we have China-Europe trains and land passages, so we are not in a hurry.
The matter of the Red Sea, the United States should wipe its own ass, be careful that it has not been wiped clean here, and there is an accident in the Mediterranean Sea over there!