Guess who's the Houthi's new best friend? https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-pr...or-houthi-assault-on-global-shipping-eabc2c2b
Israel has been counting on the western countries such as the U.S. and U.K. to control the Houthi threat in Yemen via naval support forces. Now that Iran is providing hypersonic missiles to the Houthis to launch at Israel -- we may now see some direct action from the IDF to eliminate this menace. Keep in mind that Israel has seriously been cleaning up the neighborhood; Hezbollah is effectively toothless in Lebanon, Hamas is on its last legs in Gaza, and the Assad dictatorship is gone in Syria. Iran finds itself unable to directly retaliate against Israel. The Houthis are effectively Iran's last proxy in the area and I expect they will lean a harsh lesson shortly. Tel Aviv hit by missile fired from Yemen, Israel and Houthis say https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/middleeast/tel-aviv-hit-by-projectile-from-yemen-intl-hnk?cid=ios_app Houthi 'hypersonic missile' slams into Tel Aviv area, sixteen lightly wounded MDA said that ambulances, mobile intensive care units, and medicycle EMTs were dispatched to the scene. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-834308
Looks like the U.S. is striking the Houthis to prevent further missile launches at Israel. Somehow I think this is just one step of many in the weeks ahead. US strikes Houthis in Yemen, Arab media claims https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/2024-12-21/live-updates-834310
I said just last week or maybe the week before that the Houthis were going to get a rude awakening when Trump came on board because they fired on a U.S warship and the U.S./Biden did nothing because the warship was able to shoot the missiles/drones down- as if they don't count as an act of aggression if you shoot them down. If Biden takes action, well, better late than never. Too bad that he has put u.s. warships and the Israeli homeland in deep danger before getting around it. I would like to know what exactly the American rules for taking action are. Apparently an attack on a naval vessel is not part of the equation. Most likely the Navy had a plan but Austin would not approve it.
Israel has been striking the Houthis in Yemen directly as Iran supplies them with a new missile. Iran, Houthi missile innovation present Israel with a new challenge - opinion It seems our enemies are attempting to complicate interception by altering the trajectory of the missile mid-flight, making it harder to predict. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-835053
The Houthis have been warned. Cut it out or they are next. Israel, at UN, warns Houthis risk sharing the same fate as Hamas, Hezbollah https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...sharing-same-fate-hamas-hezbollah-2024-12-30/ Israel warns Houthis of consequences for missile attacks Ambassador emphasizes Israel's capability to strike Middle East targets UN expresses concern over regional stability amid escalating violence Dec 30 (Reuters) - Israel's ambassador to the United Nations issued on Monday what he called a final warning to Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militants to halt their missile attacks on Israel, saying they otherwise risked the same "miserable fate" as Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria's Bashar al-Assad if they persisted. He also warned Tehran that Israel has the ability to strike any target in the Middle East, including in Iran, adding that Israel would not tolerate attacks by Iranian proxies. Houthis have repeatedly fired drones and missiles towards Israel in what they describe as acts of solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli fire in Gaza. "To the Houthis, perhaps you have not been paying attention to what has happened to the Middle East over the past year. Well, allow me to remind you what has happened to Hamas, to Hezbollah, to Assad, to all those who have attempted to destroy us. Let this be your final warning. This is not a threat. It is a promise. You will share the same miserable fate," Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon told the U.N. Security Council. Speaking before the meeting, Danon told reporters: "Israel will defend its people. If 2,000 kilometers is not enough to separate our children from the terror, let me assure you, it will not be enough to protect their terror from our strengths." Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the Houthis that Israel was "just getting started" following Israeli strikes on multiple Houthi-linked targets in Yemen, including Sanaa airport, ports on the country's west coast and two power plants. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was about to board a plane at the airport when it came under attack by Israel. A crew member on the plane was injured, he said. Israel's elimination of the top leaders of the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah and the destruction of their military structure along with Assad's collapse represent a succession of monumental wins for Netanyahu. Briefing the Security Council meeting, Assistant U.N. Secretary General for the Middle East Khaled Khiari reiterated grave concern about the escalation in violence, calling on the Houthis to halt attacks on Israel and for international and humanitarian law to be respected. "Further military escalation could jeopardize regional stability with adverse political, security, economic and humanitarian repercussions," Khiari said. "Millions in Yemen, Israel and throughout the region, would continue to bear the brunt of escalation with no end." Russia's ambassador to the U.N., Vassily Nebenzia, while condemning Houthi missile attacks on Israel, also criticized Israel's retaliatory strikes on Yemen, as well those by what he called the "Anglo-Saxon coalition" of U.S. and British warships in the Red Sea, saying they were "clearly not proportional."
It's amazing the number of hostile actions on the empire's borders that are happening now. Not one big enough to be decisive, but each a cut here and a cut there, each costing money, time and attention. It's like the fall of Rome is happening again.
Yes.. the doom is closing in on the mullahs in Iran. They are running out of proxies to wage war for them.
Let me rephrase... no one enemy on the empire's frontiers is sufficient, so far, to topple it finally, but in aggregate all enemies are whittling away at the empire just like they did Rome. One would have to be utterly ignorant of history to think that somehow this empire is special and will escape the fate of some 200 that preceded it.