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The Houthis in Yemen have been quiet lately, claiming that they wouldn’t be bombing Israeli targets, or shipping in the Red Sea, while the ceasefire holds in Gaza. But in the last week, they announced that because Israel had instituted a blockade of Gaza, they would resume their drone and missile attacks on both the Jewish state and on all shipping trying to enter the Red Sea. The Trump administration then ordered the Air Force to launch a series of preemptive attacks, raining down bombs on the Houthis in their hideouts their bases, their port at Hodeidah, and their capital at Sana’a. The American attacks are supposed to continue for many days to come. An Iranian general, Hossein Salami, has threatened to “respond” to the American attacks, but this is mere bluster. After all, Iran promised to launch devastating attacks on Israel after Israel’s October 26, 2024 attack on the Islamic Republic; now almost four months have passed, and there has still been no Iranian retaliation.
The latest series of attacks on the Houthis — which will continue, apparently, until the Houthis cease to fire on international shipping — is meant to accomplish two things. First, the Americans are destroying stores of weapons that would otherwise have been used against both Israel and the ships that try to enter the Red Sea. Second, and even more importantly, the Americans are sending a message to the Houthis’ backer, Iran, reminding the Islamic Republic that its last ally still standing in the region, the Houthis, can be taken down by a sustained bombing campaign, leaving Iran to face the Americans and the Israelis alone.
These attacks are also a potent sign of America’s determination to do whatever it takes to ensure that the Islamic Republic never acquires nuclear weapons. Just days before the attacks on the Houthis began, Trump sent a letter to Iran offering to start negotiations about that country’s nuclear program; the Iranians rejected it; the next step by America was to launch the attacks on the Houthis, in order to remind Iran of what tremendous damage the Americans can inflict on its Yemenite ally and, by extension, on Iran itself. More on the attack, and the message it was meant to convey, can be found here: “‘Message to Iran’: US launches large-scale strikes on Houthis in Yemen, officials confirm,” Jerusalem Post, March 15, 2025:
The United States struck Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday evening in a message to Iran, at a time when the administration is proposing to open negotiations on its nuclear program, a US official told The Jerusalem Post.
The strikes will last “days, possible weeks” an official told Reuters….
As of March 16, there were 32 Houthis killed in the ongoing strikes.
Now the airport at Sana’a has been hit, and, one assumes, damaged enough so that the Islamic Republic of Iran can no longer deliver weapons by air to the Houthis. By sea will also be difficult, because in July, September, and December of 2024, Israeli planes repeatedly struck the port at Hodeidah, each attack more deadly than the next.
In a week, or two, as the attacks against Houthi targets continue, we will see if the Houthis are able to lob a drone or two at shipping in the Red Sea, as a sign of their resilience against the “American aggression,” or if they will think better of it, and by saying and doing nothing at all, will be silently signaling that “we’ve stopped our drone-and-missile campaign. Now please stop the bombing.” And America will have won.
Well Houthis fired another missile at Israel right after so I guess the message they got was how inept Trump was.
Always enjoy you exposing your ignorance and biased ideology! Does soros still give you a nickel for each post/reply or did you get a raise caused by the biden bunglers’ Inflation REDUCTION Act?
You can bomb their infrastructure, but they don’t care about their infrastructure. You can bomb their people, but they don’t care about their people. Until you can bomb their Korean (with critical examination) you can never win.
Oh ffs, all president Trump has done is make American citizens look like violent criminals.
Stop feckin interfering in foreign wars it hasn’t been effective in the past and won’t be effective in the future.
You are NOT the world’s policeman.
IF it was a WAR fought under the Leadership of PRESIDENT TRUMP and his TEAM, it would be like the short lived operations that decimated isis into waswas! The main issue with the houthis (not capitalized to show absolutely no respect) is they are like the other 7th Century barbarians! The ONLY solution to having a safe, normal World would be for all the muslims to simply live in muslim nations and NOT have ANY interactions with CIVILIZED Nations! That’s a tad harsh, but it’s REALITY! I know there are some innocent people living under the thumb of the tyrants and their ideology and hope that one day they will be in sufficient numbers to overthrow their rulers and establish a safe Nation that respects the rights of other nations and “infidels” to even live!! Until then, I’d simply make sure they did not enter Our Nation nor have the modern means of leaving theirs! Harsh, but so are THEIR solutions to OUR existence!
How well did that work out in the past?
This is purely an FAFO situation. They are no in the find out phase of what happens when you attack our ships, and they have attacked our ships.
Only 3% of American goods pass through the Red Sea.
they love death like jews love life , oblige them mercilessly , whenever , wherever , and as often as the need arises . what they did on oct. 7 to jews is what they would do to all infidels given the chance . death means nothing to barbarians . bomb them until there are more single women amongst the houtis than men . it wont stop them from screaming death to america , it may get their attention that there are more important things than being paid to murder jews . but then they are muslims , perhaps not .
Yemen will live in darkness unless they quit and make their own peace with israel.