Houthis Thwart the US-UK Military Dictatorship on Global South By Simon Chege Ndiritu!
(2024-03-29 at 00:17:02 )

Houthis Thwart the US-UK Military Dictatorship on Global South By Simon Chege Ndiritu!

A multipolar world is taking shape even in the military realm, as can be inferred from Houthis ability to curtail the United States and United Kingdom goal of propping up Israeli genocide in Gaza at all cost. Houthis persistence and continued ability to inflict damage on Israeli, American, and British vessels transiting through Bab el Mandeb until Israel lifts its medieval blockade on Gaza shows that the western empires military dictatorship can be resisted by small countries. Meanwhile, the western empire desperately seeks diversion from its failure in the Red Sea.

Diversion; from Military Operation to Humanitarian Concern

The United States and United Kingdoms ill-fated "Operation Prosperity Guardian" is turning out so awfully wrong that the western media prefers to ignore it, hoping the rest of the world will forget. A passing view of the main western media outlets, France 24, CNN, and BBC on the 19th and 20th March 2024 shows that they did not display the exploits of the western empires military, either in Ukraine or the Red Sea like they cheered the destruction of all former victims of the empire.

Instead, the European section of this propaganda machine; France 24, and BBC attempted to assume a moral high ground, by hypocritically raising the awareness of the dire food situation in Gaza, which is caused by their governments blind arming of Israel. France 24, featured a report by UNICEF stating how it was wrong to let children in Gaza to starve, and accentuated the story with a photo of a starving African child; for an extra boost of sympathy.

Similarly, the BBCs homepage in extreme right column carried a story of how the entire Gaza now faces starvation, something that could not be published in such a position just a few weeks ago.

The CNN steered clear of Gaza and Ukraine and could not even popularize Bidens botched campaign to airdrop a few food packages to Gazans (here), which ended awfully with some packages falling in the sea, others in Israel, and others killing Gazans. Noteworthy, the United States provides millions of times more bombs to Israel than food to Gaza, and none of its bombs have missed its target by the margin seen in the airdropped food packages. This comparison shows the strong determination of the United States to aid Israel in exterminating Palestinians, and that its food airdrop is for public relations.

The main lesson that comes to the fore is that United States of American and British commitment to eliminating Yemenis resistance to their sponsored genocide has not born fruits.

Therefore, the days of the West achieving every narrow-minded goal using its military are over. It is also clear that western global dictatorship will not only be resisted by military superpowers like Russia and China but also by small countries with sufficient missile and drone technology. "Operation Prosperity Guardian" has spectacularly failed and its architects; Washington,D.C. and London have proved unable to defend their merchant vessels and Israels in the Red Sea.

Surprisingly, it appears that the security of vessels transiting through the area is inversely proportional to the military deployment by countries owning them (these vessels). The United States and the United Kingdom, which have heavily deployed their naval forces in and around the Red Sea have faced the most significant attacks from the Houthis, while vessels from other countries have been transiting peacefully.

The Houthis meticulous selection of targets has denied the United States and United Kingdom propaganda impetus of portraying the groups attacks as indiscriminate.

It may be dawning on the Western Empire that it may have to force Israel to suspend its medieval blockade on Gaza. This realization can explain President Bidens mumbling a declaration to establish a floating pier for vessels to "deliver aid" to Gazans (here).

However, such a pier may be designed for smuggling Gazans out in what Israeli hypocrites call voluntary immigration. Nonetheless, Operation Prosperity Guardian has failed so badly that Lindsey Graham, the empires military windsock pointed back to Ukraine, appearing flaccid and demanding mobilization of more young Ukrainians to add wind to the wests failing military campaign (here). However, Houthis are not yet done.

On March 19th, Houthis spokesman announced (here) about Yemenis attack on a United States commercial vessel MADO, news that the United States media ignored before the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Organization (UKMTO) confirming.

The attack constituted a trend where United States vessels have been targeted recently, one of which resulted in casualties. Earlier, the United Kingdom even lost a commercial ship, Rubymar, a bulk Carrier that was struck by Houthis on the 18th February (here) and received significant damages making the crew to abandon it. The vessel sank several days later.

Later, a United States owned vessel, Gibraltar eagle, was also struck by Houthis in the recent past (here). Meanwhile, the United States and United Kingdom navies have failed to lift the Houthis blockade on the Israeli port of Eilat which, reported, losing over 85% of its revenue since the Yemeni group started operations (here).

The simple message that should be clear now is that the United States and United Kingdom must abandon their hegemonic arrogance of trying to achieve haughty goals like militarily advancing Israeli genocide and others. The Houthis remind that a new world order is here, in which diplomacy is needed to balance the legitimate interests of all.

Houthi attacks also have desirable secondary effects in global geopolitics, especially in freeing long-term United States hostages and isolating the latter.

The Houthis have capabilities to inflict significant damage to participants, which has dissuaded some and limited the United States ability to diplomatically mobilize vassals, relative to earlier campaigns against Iraq and Afghanistan.

The past United States imperial wars of plunder saw many countries joining, including Germany, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, and Poland as there was no risk of meaningful retaliation, but the Houthis are different.

For instance, Australia declined to send its vessel to Operation Prosperity Guardian (here) for fear of losing them. However, the same (Australia) sent it thuggish Special Forces to Afghanistan to kill Afghans and drink beer from their prosthetic limbs (here). Other United States allies declined to participate or only gave marginal support (here), while Germanys participation came later, and entailed an embarrassing maneuver involving trying to shoot down United States drones.

Participants of the current operation are cautious of the risks involved, and the Houthis have repeatedly reported targeting United States and United Kingdom naval vessels, statements that cannot be ignored.

Also, navies involved are primarily securing their shipping vessels as opposed to helping the United States military posturing, even when the United States of American contingent is stretched thin and unable to provide meaningful protection to American shipping vessels (here).

The United States Central Command, which is not in charge of the central United States, but the Middle East, has been reduced to issuing threats and statements that have not deterred Houthis, after several months of military deployment and savage bombing of Yemen.

As things stand, the pentagon can either continue its military posturing and risk even more attacks, or urge Israel to meet the Houthis demands and halt the Genocide in Gaza. Houthis have reminded the United States that it cannot always get its way in the global south, and needs to take demands from smaller countries seriously.

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