I wonder why they didn't mention the US 30 million dollar MQ-9 drone the Houthi's shot down? The Rubymar incident was in the same video as this MQ-9 clip. Maybe too embarrassing I guess.
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I thought FJB’s handlers fixed the Houthi problem - by removing all reporting of it in the MSM
There is no humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, except for the remaining 10,000 Hamas fighters trapped in Rafah.
The Houthi attacks are not affecting Israel. They are affecting most of Europe and probably a lot of Asia. So those affected countries who don’t give one wit about Israel’s problems are, of course, protesting Israel.
On a different note, you build your military and its equipment to go after a particular predicted threat. I suspect that the vessels and equipment/ammo that is currently deployed in the Red Sea is tuned to a different sort of threat profile than what the Houthis are presenting.
Also, as someone said recently, it’s more efficient to shoot the archer rather than the arrow. So far, it looks like we’ve shot at more arrows than archers.
Pulling back to the ten-thousand-foot level, the Houthis have uncovered a huge vulnerability in our globally connected supply chains. A cell phone, for example, has some thirteen hundred parts from dozens of countries traveling along thousands of miles of sea routes. Stop just one of those parts from reaching the factory and it can’t ship cellphones. There are at least five more choke points where someone who has nothing to lose can plant a few mines and bring global trade to its knees. It isn’t a few mines or missiles that can kill global trade, it’s the insurance cost to the ships.
Just don’t call them terrorists. The u.n. says that hurts their feelings......
I wonder why they didn't mention the US 30 million dollar MQ-9 drone the Houthi's shot down? The Rubymar incident was in the same video as this MQ-9 clip. Maybe too embarrassing I guess.
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Any word on whether the Rubymar is still afloat?
Most of those countries are in their own quandry, as they have no means to effectively affect the shipping disruptions unless they want to join in on attacking the Houthis. Missile defense ships are a scarce quantity. Plus many are probably trying to placate their Muslim populations...
since the suez canal opened, europe-asia trade has utilized the canal at the northern end of the red sea and the bab al mandab strait at the southern end of the red sea.
the southern end of the red sea is flanked to the east by yemen. the houthis operate largely from yemen.
houthis have recently increased terrorist operations against ships carrying goods between europe and asia at the bab al mandab strait and neighboring areas.
much of the specialized military arms needed for the houthis to attack the ships are financed by iran.
the houthis often use a sniper type strategy: attack once and then move immediately. repeat as needed until objective is attained.
the neighboring saudis are for whatever reason unable to control the houthis operating in yemen.
a large scale invasion from a non-neighboring country would involve problematic logistics.
attacks on commercial red sea ships have the first immediate effect of increasing war insurance for ships and goods on the ships.
many smaller import companies cannot afford the extra war insurance for their goods, since this would drastically increase their costs.
smaller import companies are compelled to reroute goods shipments around cape horn (at the southern tip of africa). this involves an added shipping delay of about 4 weeks.
a typical shipping time (company dock to company dock) is 60 days. adding 28 days for cape horn detour yields about 90 days.
smaller import companies are being pressured to absorb delivery delay penalties incurred by shipping around the horn. effectively, smaller import companies’ working capital will be reduced by ~33% (and sometimes more if empty shipping containers are not available for use at the point of loading).
shipping container shortages are affected in a complementary manner, and this also increases logistical problems and logistical delays.
as a result, smaller import companies are being pressured towards bankruptcy.
as a result, larger shipping companies will take over (in a manner similar to mergers and acquisitions for non-shipping businesses) the niche currently occupied by smaller import companies.
this all will result in more supply monopolies and eventually in higher consumer prices. it will also result in more fuel costs which will result in more pollution and higher consumer prices.