USA & Britain have moved at least 24 combat ships off the coast of Yemen

The British and US military have moved at least 24 combat ships into the seas off the coast of Yemen, ostensibly to protect the so-called global shipping lanes. This is a lie.

Yemen has clearly stated that, one, that they are only targeting ships serving Israeli interests, and that all other shipping is under no threat.

And two, that Yemen is willing to cease all military operations against Israeli shipping as soon as Israel stops its massive deadly attacks on Gaza and the West Bank.

It is ONLY Israeli shipping that is under threat, and it is ONLY Israeli shipping that USA and UK naval forces are deployed to protect.

But by escalating the situation in the Red Sea, they are putting at risk ALL shipping passing through the Red Sea and Suez Canal, which accounts for 12% of all global trade and 30% of all container shipping, as well as about 8% of world trade in both oil and LNG, for a total annual value of over a trillion US dollars.

As things stand now, only Israel-linked shipping is at risk, and even that risk can be completely eliminated by the cessation of Israeli attacks on Gaza and the West Bank.

But if the USA attacks Yemen, they will respond, and also have the capability to sink US Navy ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

And once that happens, the Red Sea becomes an active war zone, and then, all bets are off, along with all shipping in the Red Sea, and 12% of all global trade. Think about it…

The economies of the EU nations are already in serious decline. The US national debt stands at over $33 TRILLION, and the era of the US dollar’s reserve currency status in global trade is closing fast.

A 12% overnight decline in global trade would almost certainly lead these economies into economic depression equivalent to the Great Depression of almost 100 years ago.

Economic wars and military wars are two sides of the same coin. Yemen has a major economic advantage based on their geography to influence and even threaten global economic activity, and have proven their ability and willingness to use it.

And it is by no means certain that the Western armada assembled along the Yemeni coast can even defeat Yemen militarily without unacceptable and unsustainable losses.

According to Fabian Hinz, a research fellow at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, Yemen is known to possess two types of larger anti-ship ballistic missiles.

The Asef, which has a ranger 450 km range, and the Tankil, which has a range of 500 km.

These missiles can travel at speeds up to Mach 5, and carry warheads of between 300 to 500 kg. (By comparison, Chinese anti-ship missiles with 600 kg warheads have been dubbed Aircraft Carrier Killers.)

The range of these missiles allows Yemen to cover not only the southern third of the Red Sea, but all of the Gulf of Aden and much of the Arabian Sea as well.

With the exception of the USS Indianapolis and the USCG ships in the Gulf of Oman, all of the USA/UK naval ships in the graphic above are already within range of Yemeni missiles.

After almost ten years of ethnic war against the USA and a Saudi-led coalition, Yemen remains an undefeated and powerful fighting force, still in control of about 20% of Yemen, in the northern and western parts along the Red Sea.

Though a recent ceasefire was brokered by China and based on Saudi – Iranian rapprochement, the situation in Yemen remains volatile, exacerbated by Israel’s recent attacks on Gaza and the West Bank.

With the USA threatened escalation, the global military and economic risks increase by orders of magnitude. Yemen demands are clear and precise: Stop the attacks on Palestinians, and the threats to Israeli shipping will cease.

Escalate, and Yemen’s response will be asymmetrical and world-changing. To any who might scoff at the idea of a rebel army in an impoverished 3rd world country being able to take on the US military.

I would simply remind them of the fact that the USA has failed to achieve any meaningful victory in any of the wars it has started over the last 30 years.

The choice is clear – either end the Palestinian tragedy, or unleash a global catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.

The US government has announced its ill-advised decision to choose the latter option.

It is up to all good people in the world, and US citizens in particular, to prevent this global and suicidal miscalculation from taking place, or suffer the consequences.

Sputnik / ABC Flash Point News 2024.

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