According to the British newspaper The Guardian, the United States will create a joint fleet of Arab countries in Bahrain in the near future to defend the Red Sea straits.
Yemen's Houthi group has been attacking ships in the Red Sea since late November, and its first target, the Galactic Leader, was captured by the Houthis and has yet to be released. The Houthis took advantage of the terrain and carried out attacks on ships passing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea. The Houthis claim that their military operation is to counter Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and that all ships sailing to Israel will be attacked. Analysts believe that the real targets of their attacks are allies such as the United States and Israel, and that large quantities of relief supplies must be transported to Israel by sea.
Compared with the Lebanese Allah Party's attack on the Israeli military, the Houthis have attacked merchant ships in the Red Sea much harder, and the Red Sea Strait is known as the world's main route and is one of the world's largest ** shipping routes. Four of the world's five largest ships have declared a grounding of the Red Sea route since December 15 last year, which has caused them huge losses. Both companies are European state-owned enterprises and are considered allies of the United States and Israel, which is why they are being attacked by the Houthis. So far, more than 20 commercial vessels have been injured in the attack. As a result, the European side began to blame Israel and the United States, that they continued to attack Gaza, and that they failed to hold the Red Sea straits.
The Americans are under tremendous pressure to guarantee that they have enough power in the Persian Gulf to force Iran to support the Palestinians and send them to the Red Sea. In particular, the US ** team focused on "escorting" rather than on the Houthis.
According to the consistent style of the US military, if local armed forces like the Houthis dare to provoke the United States, then they will absolutely send troops to annihilate them as soon as possible. But now, the US team is very cautious about its actions in the Middle East, and it can even be said that it is cautious.
Iranian drones have warned the United States not to act rashly, but they have obediently obeyed orders. Now, just one Houthi rebel has made the Americans scratch their ears and cheeks, and even the US ** team itself does not dare to guarantee whether it can hold this route, and calls on dozens of countries to form a joint escort fleet. It can be seen that the combat effectiveness of the US ** team is not very strong.
Another worrying thing is that when the US fleet learned that the Chinese Navy was escorting ships in the Gulf of Aden, it was trying to invite China to join the joint fleet they had formed. However, the Chinese Navy also has its own mission and does not necessarily have to listen to the opinions of the Americans.
The military operations of the Houthis can attract a large amount of military forces and supplies from the US ** team as well as Israel. The U.S. forces now have only 70,000 troops in the Middle East, while the Houthis have 800,000 troops, most of them on the ground. The combat effectiveness of the American ** team is not very strong, especially when facing the guerrillas. If the U.S. ** team goes to the desert of Yemen to fight, won't it put their own head in it, that's why they say the word "escort".
However, this is only a way to contain and strike at the US-Israeli forces in the Middle East, and the United States and Israel will soon face a situation in which they will be attacked on both sides and on both sides, and their strength will be further weakened and disintegrated. This is definitely a huge trouble for the United States!