The West is in complete denial that the Houthi movement is one of the most battle hardened and effective factions against US style war tactics in the World. Their ability to procure, build, and strategize and their experience fighting US tactics in sea and air they’re punching heavily above their weight limit. It’s seriously impressive.
Part of this denial is the heavy investment in the military industrial complex which has effectively destroyed war economics from the US point of view, but nobody wants to admit that it’s more expensive field an $11M Aegis launched SM-3 vs the Quds-3/Quds-2. While the Quds-3/Quds-2 has no public dollar amount that I can find, it’s unlikely to cost more than a Iranian produced Zolfaghar or Qadr missile which western analysis peg at $0.5 to $1.5 million dollars.
Oh and you launch multiple interceptors per ballistic target if you want to intercept, so the economic comparison is for perfect interception with no backup.
The US likely loses more money by having war ships in target range of the Houthis than the Houthis spend yearly on their weapons production.
The Houthis are the only Iranian proxy
The iron-clad rules of Western corporate publishing:
- You must always call Hezbollah or Insar Allah Iranian proxies.
- You must never call Israel or Ukraine US proxies.
Ukraine US proxies
not for much longer if trump has anything to do with it.
Maybe. I don’t think anyone knows what Trump will do, including Trump himself. He’s all id and no ideology.
I think they struck one or two aircraft carriers with ballistic missiles.
The USSR is part of the reason why Yemen, the poorest Arab country, has hypersonic weapons technology. Yemen literally has nothing to lose.
“What I’ve seen of what the Houthis have done in the last six months is something that — I’m just shocked.”
I’m not surprised. Yemenis are unlike their neighbors. They have a long history of being industrious and builders. The only thing they lack is plenty of natural resources. Otherwise Yemenis can do anything they set their minds to. They got their hands on missile technology when South Yemen was socialist and allied with the USSR, and after unification they kept developing their capabilities.
US Navy got caught lying about it the first time, I am sure they did.
It’s incredible to see how the legacy of USSR lives on today and continues to fuel liberaton.
i bet this is why they drumbeat and so heavily decry on “TERRORISTS!!!” to exclusion of any kind of reasonable arguments like: that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter; particularly when it comes to a genocide.
it’s a bit like the democrat’s decrying “TANKIES!!” to shut out all criticism that lost them the election; except decrying “TERRORISTS!!!” does win, unlike the democrats.
An excuse to sell even more US weapons overseas? $$$$
