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What does the cutest look look like in the world?
It is the appearance of the once invincible hegemonists who have suddenly become cowardly, and the current appearance of the US military in the face of resistance forces in the Middle East, especially the appearance of the US military in the face of the Houthis.
The arrogant US military is now being taught by the Houthis to behave at any time in the Middle East, as docile as a "pigeon", with one main word: cowardice.
The US military has already sent two aircraft carriers to the Middle East to help Israel in the field, but instead of producing the deterrent effect that the United States expects, the US military has become the object of ridicule and humiliation in the Middle East.
US military bases in a number of countries in the Middle East were attacked. For example:
On December 3, local time, 15 122mm rockets launched from Iraq attacked the US military base in Syria.
After landing at the military base at the airport in Harab algir in the Syrian province of Hasakah, a large American transport plane loaded with ** was hit by seven rockets with precision.
Similar news can often be seen recently, and it will be even more common in the future.
Of course, the actions that make the US military feel extremely insulting are still from Iran and the Houthis:
The U.S. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, which had just arrived in the Persian Gulf, was swept overhead by Iranian drones at low altitude, and was also ordered to land on alert and escort U.S. military forces, and the U.S. military's response was to "heed the warning."
The Houthis are even less polite. Sometimes they directly launched direct attacks on nearby US ships, and sometimes they intercepted Israeli merchant ships under the noses of US troops.
When the first batch of Israeli merchant ships was intercepted and seized, the first reaction of the US military was not to give the Houthis some color, but to refute the rumors of the Houthis, saying that this was not done by the Houthis, and I can prove that it was done by Somali pirates.
The Houthis slapped him in the face directly: Which eye did you see that I didn't do it?
Moreover, the slap in the face continues. Even the direct protection of the U.S. aircraft carrier battle group did not stop the Houthis from imposing a naval blockade on Israel.
On 3 December, two Israeli merchant ships were attacked by the Houthis with missiles and drones.
The Houthis, who are extremely willing to fight, are far away from Israel and separated by Saudi Arabia and Jordan, making it inconvenient to launch an attack. But now, it is clear that the Houthis have found a way to play their part, using Yemen's geographical advantage of choking access to the Red Sea to block Israel's Red Sea shipping lanes.
One of Israel's major weaknesses right now is its economy. Originally, the initial budget of the Israeli Ministry of Finance was based on the war lasting 8 to 12 months.
And without the full involvement of Allah, Iran or Yemen, the war in the Gaza Strip alone costs up to 200 billion shekels ($51 billion), equivalent to 10 percent of GDP.
But when you include other expenses and economic losses, it's much more than that. Treasury Secretary Smotrich said that Israel suffers about 1 billion shekels a day as a result of the war (2$4.6 billion). Counting indirect losses, the total daily losses are at least $400 million.
The Houthis have declared that all Israeli or Israeli-related vessels will be "legitimate" targets until Israel ceases its operations in Gaza. Israeli merchant ships can only circumnavigate the Cape of Good Hope, increasing their voyage by thousands to tens of thousands of kilometers, and the cost of transportation and time has increased greatly. It is clear that the blow to the Israeli economy, which has been severely affected by the war, has been effective.
The Houthi blockade of Israel's Red Sea shipping lanes is clearly adding to Israel's economic losses.
The Houthis have not only intercepted Israeli merchant ships, but have also launched direct attacks on US ships on several occasions. So far, there has been no counterattack by the US military against the Houthis in Yemen.
This time, the anti-Israel and anti-US organizations not only showed the courage to directly confront the US military, but also were very disciplined.
Regarding Iran's drone close to the US Eisenhower aircraft carrier, the US military only muttered two sentences, Iran's move is "unsafe and unprofessional". The U.S. also asked China to send a message to Iran: "Washington wants China to convey to Iran the U.S. concern about the escalation and deepening of the conflict." ”
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The United States has been struggling to hold on to the shelf of the world's only superpower, and it has been ridden in the face again and again, but it doesn't care about face. It was originally intended to scare people in the Middle East, but now it has become someone else's Liwei rapid recharge target.
It really can't be helped.
We have said many times that now the US military is the largest ** in the United States. Because of the financial mess and deindustrialization of the United States, the current US military cannot fight, dare not face war, and cannot withstand a war of medium scale or above.
This characteristic of the U.S. military was tested in the South China Sea showdown with the U.S. military in 2016, and was later tested and verified by our military exercises around the island of Taiwan.
Now, after repeated tests by Iran and the Houthis, there is even more no objection.
In the face of the Houthi "provocation" (neutral here), the current US military is not even a paper tiger, and has become a sick cat, a weak chicken, and a rookie.
Counting how many fighter-bombers, how many surface ships and underwater nuclear submarines, how many missiles, and how many spy satellites the US military has, the US military still looks like a behemoth, but so what?The U.S. military is now cowardly.
The United States has always practiced hegemony, and US hegemony is directly based on its strong military strength, and the strength of the US dollar is first and foremost based on the strength of the US military.
If the lion shows old age and decrepit on the grassland, it will be targeted, onlooked, and tempted by the hyena, and once the hyena confirms that the lion is indeed weak, the lion will become the hyena's lunch (dinner is also fine).
**If the boss exposes his strength to the outside world, it is also very dangerous, and those who have to go against the grain, as well as the seemingly obedient little brother under him, are beginning to have ideas.
The law of the jungle dominated by the United States is to speak by strength. As the boss of the United States, its own strength is no longer good, so why should others listen to you?Why do you want your dollar to continue to rub oil from the oil revenues of the Middle East, and really think that you are moved by the nonsense of "universal values"?
It can be said that the US military will not show cowardice unless it is absolutely necessary, and in this way, it will be difficult to bring its own team in the future.
The United States really can't pretend to be any longer, and the degree of decline in its strength is even more serious than we imagined.
Originally, it would be good if the strength of the United States could complete a key offensive in one direction, but he chose to attack China and Russia in two directions at the same time: he wanted to defeat Russia in one fell swoop through the military war in Ukraine and the launch of comprehensive economic sanctions from allies. As for China, the economy is the main battlefield, and China's development is contained through first-class warfare, scientific and technological warfare, and financial warfare.
As a result, neither goal has been achieved on the eastern and western fronts, but on the contrary, it has been held back by the two fronts, resulting in an emptiness of power in the Middle East, and the changes in the Middle East that are causing the United States the most headache today have appeared.
At present, the United States has no choice but to face a situation in which it can cope on three fronts, with its already overstretched strength.
It is very difficult to have a few successful cases in two-front operations, let alone a three-front operationAs long as this situation is formed and consolidated, it will be a game of inevitable defeat, and the result will be that the United States will accelerate bloodletting, accelerate its decay, and accelerate the death of US hegemony.
We say that "just a few days after the changes in the Middle East began, the biggest suspense has lost its suspense" and "What kind of magical script is this: before the official start, the ending is basically doomed", including reasoning from this perspective.
And Israel, which the United States wants to serve wholeheartedly, is a particularly unconscious master, who not only treats the United States as a licking dog, but also thinks that the United States is a perpetual motion machine whose energy will never be exhausted. Relying on the support of the United States, when the Islamic countries in the Middle East began to reconcile and fell into isolation, they also attacked in many directions in the Middle East and made enemies everywhere. The attack and blockade of the civilian population of Gaza has also made him a public enemy of the whole world, and he has lost all his politics before he has won a military victory. What Israel is doing today not only locks up its own future, but also makes it more and more difficult for the United States to get out of the Middle East.
It didn't take long for the world to see how weak the United States really is now.
Needless to say, the Shiite "arc of resistance" is becoming more and more confident in the future, that is, the Sunni Arab countries of the GCC that were originally united around Saudi Arabia will also reassess whether the United States is still worth relying on, reflect on the strategy of balancing diplomacy between the United States and the eastern powers, and the entire Islamic world will increase its determination to turn to the East.
As a result, the great Sino-Russian-Islamic alliance, which the United States is most worried about, has turned from a theoretical possibility into a practical feasibility, and the process of integration of the Eurasian continent has become more and more operable. In this way, maritime hegemony will face a real challenge.
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The evolution of the situation in the Middle East is becoming more and more out of the control of the United States and is developing more and more in the direction that the United States least wants. First of all, no one is afraid in the Middle East, and there will be no way to control the field, and then it will enter a death spiral, and the US military will not be able to stay in the Middle East, and the end point will be the end of the dollar's oil settlement status.
Losing the Middle East is tantamount to losing world hegemony, and this is something that the United States does not dare to think about.
No matter how high Israel jumps, it will not change the overall situation. The United States is now struggling desperately, and it is difficult to break this situation.
From the moment the Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out, a miraculous mechanism was formed: the more local benefits Israel gains in the Middle East, the more strategic interests the United States loses in the world. Moreover, what the United States loses is strategic interests, and Israel gains only tactical benefits, and the ratio of the losses of the former to the gains of the latter cannot be calculated in quantitative terms.
The theoretical maximum of Israel's local interests in the Middle East is to occupy all of Gaza, but the United States may lose its global hegemony as a result.
Therefore, the current United States is obviously very bitter in the heart, but the Americans cannot control the destiny of the United States. The United States has accompanied Israel to become the finger of thousands of people, and it continues to act as the Israeli army's ** for the innocent people of Gaza, providing Israel with all kinds of advanced **.
This is the result of being controlled by capital without a concept of state, and this is the consequence of being the largest actual controller by Jewish capital.
As the Palestinian-Israeli situation has developed, Israel has not yet obtained what it wants, while the United States wants to permanently lose what it does not want to lose.
For the United States and Israel, this is almost the worst of all possibilities. Especially for the United StatesIt is possible to lose not only interests in the Middle East, including the oil base of the US dollar, but also in Europe and in the Western Pacific, where the United States may lose major strategic interests and fall into greater strategic passivity.
In the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, there have been signals that the United States does not want to see, which made NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg begin to say frustrating words, saying in an interview:Everyone should be prepared for bad news from Ukraine.
The United States and Europe are becoming more and more powerless to support Ukraine in fighting a first-man war. The number of shells required by Ukraine alone will not be sufficient. Deindustrialization in Europe and the United States has led to limited production capacity.
Now that Israel is competing with Ukraine for the limited resources of the United States, Ukraine has become a bitter child (there must be something hateful) that grandma does not love and uncle does not love.
The United States will not be able to untie the knot in the Middle East for a while, but Ukraine is likely not to last long.
Ukraine has lost most of its industrial capacity and military industry, and it can no longer take care of itself, and the United States and the West cannot give Ukraine the financial and material support it needs, so it can only bow its head and admit defeat.
Once Ukraine falls into despair, it completely understands that "being a friend of the United States is deadly", it is better to be an opponent of the United States, will it break the jar and break it, and how will it embarrass NATO?
Russia has what Ukraine needs, and if Ukraine turns to Russia one day, then the United States and the West will become a joke.
On the Western Pacific side, even though 60% of the U.S. overseas military forces are deployed here, because we are in charge, it is the only one of the world's three key strategic sectors that remains stable as a whole. From north to south, on the Korean Peninsula, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea (especially the Taiwan Strait), and the South China Sea, the United States, which does not even dare to fight back against the Houthis in the face, cannot move at any point.
Before the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United States could also use key offensives to cover up the all-round passivity brought about by the rise in the east and the fall in the west. After the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United States could not even continue its key offensive and switched to an all-round defense. However, the United States cannot afford such long-term attrition, so if the United States cannot solve the Middle East situation, it will not take too long, and the United States will become a key defense. Between the world's vital strategic interests, it has to choose which ones to give up.
The United States has only five bottle caps, and it can no longer cover ten bottles, so it has to do subtraction in order to reduce the blood loss point in the United States.
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Now the United States, the world's military bases add up to hundreds of them, open the map, the US military is still everywhere, but at any point, the US military does not dare to attack, fearing that it will not be able to clean up the situation and be passive, and now it does not even dare to counterattackThe US military has lost mobility and has lost its initiative. Such a global layout is limited to wanting everything, and it is easy to becomeEverywhere there are children, everywhere there are dead children.
Those politicians in the United States cannot accept the fact that the United States has begun to decline from the bottom of their hearts, let alone face the rapid decline of the United StatesThey make decisions not from strength, but from the psychology of the "boss empire" who is addicted to it and cannot extricate themselves.
Such a change in power in the United States, coupled with such a mentality of the Americans, is particularly conducive to the acceleration of the decline of the United States.
Next, the world will have a good show. Of course, the best part is in the Middle East. The Middle East threatens to become a large-scale rollover scene where the U.S. military is frequently teased.
Now the United States is afraid of whatever it wantsA surprise is the main one, plus a thrill.
The problem is that the eastern powers in the Middle East have not yet officially made a move, and even Iran is still calmly playing the ** man mode.
There is not much time left for the United States, but the Americans are not without a chance to turn the tables, and the ** people who have been infiltrated and cultivated in various countries for a long time will become the only hope for the United States.