Tension in the Red Sea; America between the hammer of China and the anvil of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
By escalating the tension in the Red Sea because of the “holy pact” with Tel Aviv, America bought a new problem for itself, unlike Beijing. On the one hand, he placed his interests at the expense of Ansarullah’s goals, and on the other hand, he was exposed to Saudi, Egyptian, and Western pressures.
In various military colleges and think tanks in the United States, soldiers and officers are taught the necessity of avoiding a confrontation with a country whose people are armed, and Yemen is an example. But the Pentagon, which has realized that it is not possible to confront the Yemeni people in their land, is now faced with the advice that it should stay away from the Yemenis even at sea, because the escalation of tensions in the Red Sea and the confrontation with the Yemeni armed forces have put the Western economy under has made an impact and the only beneficiary of this confrontation is China.
Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, today (Sunday, January 21), published a note in this regard and wrote that since the beginning of the American-British attacks against Yemen’s Ansarullah on January 11, the number of operations reached 5 until last Friday. American military experts admit that in Currently, Ansarullah cannot be forced to stop targeting ships. This means that the bombings in Yemen have not yet deterred this movement, which controls most of Yemen, and has almost closed Bab al-Mandab and the Red Sea to international shipping. This prompted US President Joe Biden to announce last Thursday that attacks against Ansarullah would continue until they stopped bombing the ships.
In the continuation of this note, it is stated: America’s strategy failed and this failure is evident in the following cases:
First: The Pentagon failed to destroy Yemen’s military arsenal, especially the missiles and drones that occasionally target commercial ships.
Second: It seems that international shipping companies no longer trust the support of the United States under its joint strategy with England called Operation “Welfare Guard”, which is why more than twenty international companies have decided to divert their ships through South Africa. change, as if the world has returned to before the opening of the Suez Canal.
On December 19, 2023, the United States launched a multinational operation with the purported goal of protecting shipping and trade in the Red Sea, called Operation Prosperity Guardian, and claimed that concerns about continued disruptions in global trade following Ansarullah attacks in the sea were the main reason for this. It is a coalition. Meanwhile, Sana’a has announced that the Yemeni armed forces only target Israeli ships and ships whose destination is occupied Palestine, and this is Yemen’s natural right in territorial and international waters.
SOMA: Washington is under intense pressure from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the former because revenues from the Suez Canal have fallen at a time when Egypt’s economy is going through a deep and complex crisis, and Cairo wants to convince the White House that ships that belonging to or bound for Israel’s ports must go through South Africa. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia fears that the Red Sea will become a confrontational zone, especially after Iran decided to deploy some of its warships in its waters. At the beginning of this month, Iran introduced the Alborz destroyer, which is equipped with cruise missiles and a military support ship.