The US and Britain began launching strikes Thursday against Houthis-linked targets in Yemen — just days after the Iran-backed rebels carried out their largest attack to date on shipping vessels in the Red Sea.
The Houthis had targeted 27 commercial ships to date.
The most recent (on Tuesday) Houthis attack used 18 drones and three missiles from sites in Yemen.
US and UK aircraft, ships and submarines hit more than a dozen targets.
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It is actualy quite hard to gauge whether the Middle East situation is better/ worse than it has been over the last 5, 10, 20, and 30 years. Too much info and coverage and real-time ‘human interest drama’ recently appears to overwhelm any sense of the proportion of the chaos, whether localized or widespread, involving militants only, government forces (whatever that means), or general population unrest.
The current ME situation is definitely worse under Biden than Trump. Biden is right to respond to Houthi aggression as the US is responsible for keeping sea lanes open for shipping. The Houthis got something of a pass when they were (ineffectively) launching cruise and ballistic missiles at Israel but once they shut down shipping lanes and launched mass drone strikes on US boats it was only a matter of time before a response came.
Ultimately though I am not sure that the Houthis care. Being fanatics they don’t seem to mind this outcome so I suppose the US and allies will need to degrade their military with prolonged strikes. We won’t break their will just their ability to cause problems.
Current Middle East status: US gives money to Iran, Iran builds drones, Iran sells drones to Russia for profit, Russia uses drones to attack Ukraine, Ukraine uses US supplied missiles to shoot down drones, US gives Iran more money. Can we pretty please stop the Obama foreign policy of naïve rapprochement with Iran?