As we all know, the Middle East has always been very chaotic, mixed with fish and dragons, and the Yemeni Houthis are a non-** armed force in the Middle East, with very strong combat effectiveness, and once fought back and forth with the regular Saudi army. After the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israel continued to bomb the Gaza region, not caring about the lives of Arabs, and the Houthis in Yemen came forward to support the Palestinians and officially declared war on Israel. Just recently, Yemen's Houthi rebels once again supported the Palestinians and issued a strong warning to Israel, demanding that Israel immediately release all relief supplies into Gaza, otherwise the Yemeni Houthis will seize all Israeli cargo ships they see. The move provoked a great backlash from Israel, and the Red Sea became the global spotlight.
As everyone knows, since Israel launched its attack on Gaza, it has blocked all the main transportation routes in and out of Gaza, and even the relief supplies transported by the United Nations to Gaza have not been allowed to pass, leaving the people of Gaza devastated by the war but homeless. Yemen's Houthi rebels are demanding that Israel release relief supplies from a humanitarian standpoint, and there is no problem even if they use "threats" against Israel. After all, Israel does not accept soft and hard, and the Houthis in Yemen are also helpless. It stands to reason that as long as Israel releases relief supplies, its own cargo ships will be able to pass through the Red Sea, and the Yemeni Houthis will naturally not find fault, but Israel seems to only see a threat in its eyes and will harden the Yemeni Houthis.
It is understood that Israel has not released aid supplies from various countries despite Yemen's warnings, so Yemen has also fulfilled its promise to block the entire strait under its control to intercept Israeli ships and cargo ships. According to reports, Israel struck a Norwegian freighter heading for Israel, attacking two Israeli ships with drones and missiles respectively, and the U.S. military, after receiving the distress call, also quickly fired missiles at the Houthis to intercept them.
You must know that in the Middle East, except for Iran and Saudi Arabia and other major powers, almost no one dares to deal with Israel like this. In Israel's eyes, Yemen's Houthis are just a small armed force, and they dare to act rough with themselves. As a result, Israel will also have to run into Yemen's Houthi rebels. After all, warnings from the Houthis would greatly affect Israel's imports and exports**.
According to **, for the first time, the Israeli Navy dispatched all four Saar-6 corvettes to support Israeli ships in the Red Sea, as well as ships related to Israel. You know, the Saar-6 corvettes are already Israel's most advanced combat ships, and all four of them have been dispatched, proving that Israel is well aware of the importance of the Red Sea to them.
In addition, the United States did not expect that the Houthis in Yemen would come to the real thing, and after realizing the seriousness of the matter, the United States began to coordinate with the countries near the Red Sea, in an attempt to unite these countries to resist the actions of the Houthis in Yemen. According to Kirby, the coordinator of the White House committee, the possibility of more than 30 countries participating in the Red Sea war in the future cannot be ruled out. Obviously, when things get to this point, the Middle East will be even more chaotic.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has been fought for nearly 700 days, and although Ukraine is very different from the Russian army in terms of frontal combat capabilities, it is much ahead of the Russian army in the use of drones. The Ukrainian army launched a big ** in June this year, and the ground war can be said to have achieved no results, and it was not until August that some achievements came out, causing a lot of losses to the Russian Black Sea Fleet, or using a large number of drones to achieve results. Now, according to ** reports, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is about to come to an end, and I didn't expect the Russian army's fighter base to be attacked again, and 20 fighters were affected. Let's take a look, what's going on?
On December 17, the Security Service of Ukraine said that the Joint Security Service of the armed forces of the Ukrainian Air Force used drones to carry out an attack on Morozovsk airport in Russia's Rostov Oblast, according to the Ukrainian state news agency. As far as is known, the Morozovsk airfield is home to the 559th Bomber Regiment of the Russian Aerospace Forces. During the invasion of Ukrainian drones, 20 Su-34 bombers were parked at the airport, and the invasion of the Ukrainian army caused some damage to one of the fighters. The Russian side has not responded to the damage to the fighter so far, so presumably the news should be true.
However, the Russian Ministry of Defense also revealed the "results" of the Russian army on the social ** platform, which said: The Russian army shot down 35 Ukrainian drones overnight, but the Russian army did not have a single one**. They also did not mention that Ukrainian drones attacked the fighter base of the Russian army. The author believes that perhaps because the fighter base is a military secret, the Russian side does not want to mention this topic.
Regarding the attack on Ukraine, Putin expressed his latest views within 24 hours, that is, on December 18, he believes that the war between Russia and Ukraine belongs to Russia and Ukraine, and even if NATO countries aid Ukraine, it does not mean that Russia and NATO countries have problems. However, immediately after that, Putin said that although there is no problem between Russia and NATO, Russia cannot accept NATO's initiative to provoke contradictions and create problems. Recently, Finland closed all border crossings with Russia on the grounds of "curbing illegal immigration", which in Russia's eyes is to find fault. After all, illegal immigrants have nothing to do with border crossings, and since they are illegal immigrants, it is impossible to enter the country from regular border crossings.
Then Putin explained Russia's pro-European behavior, he said that he once thought that Western countries had given up targeting Russia, because the Soviet Union had collapsed, he believed that the West would no longer have ideological conflicts with Russia, and even when the West supported Russia's domestic terrorism and separatist forces, he still insisted on his own ideas, believing that it was just the United States and the West Xi to being enemies of the Soviet Union. However, from the perspective of now, Putin realized that this was just his "naïve" idea. Putin went on to point out that NATO's frequent targeting of Russia is because they see Russia as a competitor, and they don't want Russia as a competitor.