Houthis May Have Checkmated Biden in Red Sea Standoff
Houthis May Have Checkmated Biden in Red Sea Standoff
theintercept.com
The Houthis May Have Checkmated Biden in Red Sea Standoff
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The US occupation of Afghanistan served to unseat the Taliban, only for the Taliban to take power immediately after the US pulled out. This is history repeating itself.
You can't unseat an idea.
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This is well put. The fact is the US has been trying to deal with Iran since '79 and none of their tactics work to unseat a purely ideological regime.
The Taliban is a great example too since the US fought them for 20 years to no avail just to see the regime they put in place go down in a day to a few bribes (allegedly).
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The Iranian Shah Khomeini was also Western backed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter%27s_engagement_with_Ruhollah_Khomeini
America wanted guarantees for oil since the old government they overthrew were starting to cut them off and Khomeini said " I gochu fam dw".
But he did not in fact got them.
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Literally the same strategy the US applied in Iraq, so not sure why anyone is surprised.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In the past week, the Houthis in Yemen emerged as an unlikely power player, successfully disrupting global shipping in the name of Palestinians in Gaza and goading the U.S. into launching a series of airstrikes in a failed bid at deterrence.
Over the past three months, the Houthis have attacked merchant ships passing through the Red Sea, an unexpected military intervention aimed at forcing Israel to end its U.S.-backed offensive in Gaza and allow aid into the besieged territory.
“The Biden administration seems to be hoping that degrading Houthi capabilities will coerce them to stop, but that doesn’t appear to be working,” Daniel DePetris, a fellow at Defense Priorities, a foreign policy think tank based in Washington, told The Intercept.
Once a small, ragtag army, the Houthis learned to hit back against much more powerful militaries over years of civil war and foreign intervention — acquiring knowledge they appear to be putting into practice against the U.S.
The U.S. played a key role in the civil war, heavily arming — and for a time giving direct assistance to — an air campaign by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that inflicted huge civilian casualties.
The Houthis have long been a polarizing force in Yemeni politics, but they have seized on anti-American sentiment in the Arab world and the seeming indifference of pro-U.S. regimes to the suffering in Gaza to elevate their geopolitical status.
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Yep, this is really the problem with ths US state department going soft on the Israeli government's warmongering.