Trump: I have issued instructions to launch decisive strikes against the terrorist Houthi group, and I say to the Houthis, now is your time.
New York – Rashad Alkhader – Homemad News
Raids on Sana’a and several Yemeni governorates began Saturday evening and will continue for days, perhaps weeks. These operations undermine previous deterrence principles and are based on a clearly defined plan with specific objectives that will ultimately undermine the Houthis’ power and pave the way for a large-scale, multi-faceted ground operation that will not end until this military entity, which has grown too powerful, has shifted its obsessive dreams from asserting internal control to threatening international interests. It acts as a mercenary force, employing the results of its escalatory rhetoric to ease the blockade on Iran, as a more important arm after the successive collapses of its various arms. The Houthis are on the brink of collapse, an indisputable reality. The region is rewriting its history between before and after Saturday’s raids, under a more violent and aggressive administration that bypasses all diplomatic mechanisms and the punitive strikes pursued by the Biden administration. It is imposing a zero-sum policy devoid of incentives or concessions: all or nothing. Either the Houthis surrender, or the bombing continues until the last weapons depot is destroyed, and the last commander remains on the ground or in camouflaged caves. The Truman aircraft carrier and its bombers, capable of penetrating mountain fortifications at great depths, and Trump’s uncompromising, edgy rhetoric, present the Houthis with a difficult test, without the luxury of choice or compromise: surrender their weapons and exit the equation entirely, or be drowned in hellfire, by sea and from the sky. The next step will come from the ground, where the battlefield is preparing for an engagement between armies. Saudi media devotes all its broadcast hours to unprecedented, festive coverage of the bombing operations. They celebrate this operation in unprofessional political language, breaking with Riyadh’s traditional reserve and opening the door to a public blessing and perhaps coordinated action to encircle the Houthis from all sides. Meanwhile, the Houthis are waiting for an opportunity to play their last card: bombing Saudi Arabia and striking American oil interests below the belt.
Washington has informed Russia of the operation, which means we are entering a phase of file exchanges: a peace biased in Moscow’s favor in Ukraine, in exchange for weakening Iran and forcing it to give up its nuclear deterrent, as well as its missile system and the sale of its proxies in the region.
Will the Houthis attack Saudi Arabia on Iranian orders?
The answer is open to the results of closed-room dialogues, bargaining, and deals. However, what is certain is that the Houthis are no longer what they were before the bombing, which pushes them toward more adventure and more suicide.
