The geographical location of Yemen is really amazing, let's look at the map.
First of all, Yemen is right on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the gateway to the Red Sea. Originally, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait was very wide, and Yemen could not control the entire Bab el-Mandeb Strait, but coincidentally, on the side of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait close to Yemen, there is an island called Perin, which directly divides the Bab el-Mandeb Strait into two parts, the African side is a large strait, with a width of about 26km and a water depth of 330 meters, and near the Asian side is a small strait with a width of about 26km with a water depth of 30 meters.
When many people see this, do they think that the Great Strait is the main shipping route for ships?Actually, no, the big strait is very wide and deep, but there are many reefs, as soon as the ship enters the big strait, it may hit the reef, resulting in damage to the hull, no one wants to take the risk of hitting the reef, not to mention the delay, you have to call a tugboat.
Therefore, almost all ships in the world enter the Red Sea from the small strait, although the water depth of the small strait is 30 meters, less than one-tenth of the large channel, but this water depth is completely enough for ships to sail.
The small strait is responsible for 12% of the world's cargo traffic, and the control area of Yemen's Houthi just covers this small strait, which can only be described as providence.
After the start of the battle for Gaza, in order to support the Palestinian people, Yemen's Houthi directly made a trump card to cut off Israel's Red Sea route, you must know that Israel's Port of Eilat is in the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea, and all freight has to enter and exit from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Of course, in addition to the port of Eilat, Israel also has Ashdod, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Haifa these ports, but without exception are on the Mediterranean side, and the freight with Asia depends on the port of Eilat, if the Red Sea route is cut off, then it will have to detour through the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, enter Europe, enter the Mediterranean Sea from the Strait of Gibraltar, and then get off the goods from there, almost a big circle, time costs, transportation costs have increased dramatically, which is even worse for Israel's economy that is not rich.
In order to solve the problem of the Red Sea route, Israel asked his son for help, so Lao Mei summoned an escort formation of 10 countries to deter Yemen, but most of them are actors, who neither work nor contribute, Lao Mei herself also has a small ninety-nine, and she is unwilling to end up against the Yemeni Houthis, which is actually clear to the Yemeni Houthis, so they don't take the so-called 10-nation escort formation seriously at all, what should they do or what they do.
Yemen's Houthis are actually not as ordinary people think, very weak, on the contrary, the Houthis's military strength is considered to be T0 level in that area, before Saudi Arabia and the Houthis worked for 8 years, but their own advanced ** was confiscated by the Houthis, and now the Houthis have long-range missiles, drones, everything.
The United States has many military bases around the Red Sea, but now they are all in the shadow of the Houthi in Yemen.
Drawing a circle with the Houthi in Yemen as the center, basically most of the Middle East is within the range of Yemen's Houthi missiles.
Yemen's Houthis are not afraid of the United States at all, because since the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States is no longer willing to end up in person, and is only willing to support ** people, but before the ** people of the United States, Saudi Arabia has been beaten by the Yemeni Houthis, and there is no ** person who can fight with the Yemeni Houthis around, as for Israel, even Hamas can't be beaten, and the two commanders of his Golan Brigade are in Gaza City, let alone go to Hamas pro max Ultra's Yemeni Houthis have broken their wrists and will lose even more.
As long as the Houthis in Yemen have nothing to do and launch a few air missiles, they don't pretend to be anything, they are just empty shells, as long as the missiles are lifted into the air, the United States will have to launch Patriot missiles to intercept them, because the United States is not sure what this thing is, a $10,000 air missile for a $5 million Patriot missile, how can this deal be considered a big profit, if it is funny and add some laundry detergent to the air missile, it will be more interesting, anyway, the United States insisted that Iraq's laundry detergent was that they wanted to find mass destruction** As long as there is an air missile near the military base of the United States, the United States will have to be on full alert, and all of them will wear anti-biological and chemical suits.
Moreover, there is one thing to say, the group of ** businessmen in the United States actually like Yemen's Houthis very much, the more air missiles launched by the Houthis in Yemen, the more Patriot missiles and defense equipment purchased by the United States, it has directly become a closed loop, maybe the Yemeni Houthis don't have to pay, and the ** businessmen of the United States regularly send air missiles to the Houthis.