The Houthis cannot project force into the Bab al-Madab strait as much as Iran can into the Strait of Hormuz. Contested territory, not as mountainess, no deep tunnels filled with countless drones.
However, as we have seen you don’t need to project that much force in order scare off commercial ships. One drone or mine is all would take.
This would just another front the US would need to manage either directly or through our allies.
The Houthis arent even claiming a blockage of the strait currently (except for Saudi ships) probably to buy time to cement their positions.
Remember when the Suez Canal closed? This is that same shipping lane. At least we still have access to the Saudi East-West pipeline 🙃.
That’s the best ting that could happen for motivating the adoption of renewable power sources.
In the AI boom? My guess is they’ll open more coal mines. Ok I’m getting very pessimistic, sorry for that it’s a defense mechanism at that point.
Israel and USA are the main cause of this conflict and the aggressor. Both of them benefit of conflict.
What benefits do you see? I live in the US and I don’t feel very…benefitted.
Oil stocks are going up. When people think of the US, they think of rich brats with money, not people who are barely making it in life.
Add Saudi arabia in, the context of the houthis
We’re so fucking great. /s
Losers keep losing — art of the spiel.
This seems like a big deal. The Suez is tiny, yeah?
This one may warrant EU intervention
I can see European politicians spinning this as technically not getting involved in the Iran-American war or the Israeli genocide because its the Houthis and this is a critical trade corridor for Europe. This would require Trump to stfu and not loudly boast about “how Europe is finally jointing Team American in the fight with Iran” and pissing off every European who wants nothing to do with this war.
Don’t think that the EU is gonna do shit. Russia has been ratcheting their attacks against Europe and we’re busy preparing for that. Funnily the price of diesel in the US is approaching the regular price of diesel in Europe.
No European wants to die for the delusions of some demented pedophile in the US. This isn’t even a defensive war, Trump started it so he can’t even invoke Article 5.
EDIT: the Iranians haven’t even attacked any European ships, bases or nationals. This is not our issue.
These are the Houthis blocking Suez, not Hormuz. From the article it’s not clear if they are blocking all ships or only some.
They intervened the last time during the Genocide Joe coalition and failed
Yay!! It’s finally gonna be WWIII!!!
