Recently, Yemen's Houthis have gained prominence.
Because they do what they say, if they say they will blockade the Red Sea, and if they say that they will not let the US and Israeli merchant ships and troops pass, they will really not be able to get through, and they will really dare to fight and can really achieve results.
In addition to a large number of drones, the Houthis also have a lot of high-tech anti-ship missiles and ballistic missiles.
On January 24, Yemen's Houthi spokesman Yahya Sareya issued a statement saying that on that day, Yemen's Houthi rebels clashed with a number of U.S. ships protecting two U.S. merchant ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. In addition, some of the Houthi ballistic missiles still hit the target, despite attempts by the US ** ship to intercept them.
Some people ask, why are the Houthis so "fierce"? Completely ignoring the world hegemon?
Because the United States and its lackeys are particularly good at forcing the "moderates" into mortal enemies with them.
The Houthis started out as a group of young Yemeni intellectuals, who were very moderate and naïve, just as "Taliban" meant "university students", just as Hamas was actually a "charity" composed of ...... group of academics
History is ridiculous, and the current state of an organization has little to do with their origins.
The Houthis have a relatively long history** and belong to the Shiite group of Islam in Yemen, which was originally established to revive the Zayd faction, a branch of Shiism. In 1990, when North and South Yemen were reunified, 35% of Yemenis were Shiites, and most of these Shiites were Zaidists, who opposed the United States and the West meddling in Yemen's internal affairs, and opposed making Yemen a colony of the United States. In 1992, in the northern province of Saada in Yemen, Hussein al-Houthi of the Zay'd sect founded the Young Believers, the predecessor of the Houthis.
After the outbreak of the Iraq War in 2003, Yemen** followed the United States**, and the "young faith" protested on a large scale against the policies of Yemen** at that time, which was suppressed by **. The following year, Yemen's ** leader invited Houthis to the capital for talks, but he declined the invitation. After that, Yemen** arrested him, and in September of that year, the Houthis were killed by ** army, and the "young believers" were subsequently renamed "Houthis", which are now Houthi.
To tell the truth, Houthis himself is actually a very "democratic" intellectual, and he really hopes to change Yemen by participating in the elections as a member of parliament. He also wrote a very sincere letter to Yemen** that year: "I am not against you, I appreciate your great achievements, but my sacred sense of national responsibility drives me to oppose our enemy ......United States and Israel. ”
But **'s Yemen** killed him directly, and also posted his killed** out of the ......Then, "Houthis" was directly sanctified in the flesh, and countless Yemeni young people regarded him as a role model and spiritual leader, fighting against the ** faction to the end, and never dying.
At the beginning, Saleh in Yemen suppressed the revolution internally, followed the United States externally, and brainlessly followed the United States on the issues of Iraq and Afghanistan. Although he was corrupt and brutal, he had strong control over the military and government, and the Houthis were forced to fight guerrilla warfare in the ravines. Later, the United States felt that Saleh was too strong and difficult to control, so in 2012, he was ousted and gave up his position to Deputy Hadi. After Hardy came to power, he was unable to balance the interests of all parties, his foundation was shallow, taxes could not be collected, and the army owed wages. All sides saw an opportunity, with the Houthis breaking out of the ravine in early 2013 and capturing the Yemeni capital in 2015, taking control of much of Yemen.
Later, the Houthis continued to grow in strength in the anti-American struggle and became the largest armed force in Yemen, and the United States and its ally Saudi Arabia bombed them many times, but the Houthis not only were not destroyed, but they also became stronger and stronger, richer and richer the more they fought, and their territory became bigger and bigger. It was fought until Saudi Arabia sued for reparations, signed an agreement to recognize their existence.
Later, the Houthis began to crisscross in international diplomacy, unite the forces that can be united, and the Shiite boss Iran got on the line, becoming the strongest combat effectiveness in the "Resistance Front", from its establishment to the present, the Houthis have been fighting with Yemen** and Saudi Arabia for a long time, and have been fully trained in actual combat in the face of air strikes by the US military for a long time. At the same time, the Houthis are focusing on developing their military arsenal, especially in two areas: missile range and naval capabilities, which they now have the ability to reach Israeli-occupied areas with missiles or suicide drones. In addition, it has the ability to target any ship passing through Yemen in the Red Sea, and is known as "the most modernly equipped guerrilla force".
The leadership of the Houthis has maintained a very "hard and simple" style, and after the generals have made anti-American speeches, they often wear slippers and ride home on ordinary people's motorcycles, and they have to rush to ...... people's faresSpiritually and physically, the Houthis are already the most modern army in the entire Middle East.
In 2022, the Houthis held a shocking military parade, in which one team was composed entirely of disabled soldiers with limbs, and the Internet compared that army to the "Immortal Army".
Let's think about it, what kind of organization, cohesion, morale, and popular will can give birth to such an army?
Many people look at the Houthis with the old ideology and think that they are just a religious force, but in fact, they even have a "Politburo", and on this basis, they have surpassed 90% of the world's regimes.
Do not underestimate their organizational form, strategy and tactics, they have even developed their own "Ten Principles of Military Struggle", they know how to use the power of Iran's "resistance front", they know how to "ensure the safety of Chinese ships" in the Red Sea crisis, they have learned a lot, such as "making more friends and less enemies".
It is very telling that a regime can rise in the face of adversity, survive the strangulation of internal and external enemies until now, and can defeat imperialism and its lackeys, and can not only uphold justice for the Palestinian people, but also play the "best value" for its own country and nation.
Therefore, it is not surprising that today the Houthis are able to take the lead in blocking the Red Sea and focusing on the US-Israeli merchant ships and **, completely ignoring the most powerful imperialism in fact.