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Houthis enforce embargo on ships heading to or leaving Israel
(peoplesdispatch.org)
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they have helicopters, drones, small ships, antiship missiles... They will be fine.
You’re being very liberal with your definition of “helicopters and small ships”, those are small civilian craft. Not Mi24’s and corvettes.
Yet it was enough to capture Galaxy Leader
Watch this Yemeni celebrating the capture of Galaxy Leader: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0NQr46M4H8/
Note: Galaxy is pronounced Jalaxy in Arabic
That was a pretty impressive operation, though again they had the element of surprise because no one expected the movement to begin raiding ships.
Plus overpowering 25 crew members who all have no combat experience or any weapons is a bit lopsided.
Who will stop them?
The Saudis and Emiratis who spent 6 years losing to them, or Israel that can't defeat Hamas or Hezbollah, or the US who is running out of weapons? The Yemenis want to bait the US-Israel into a losing war with them.
"Israel ready to act against Houthi rebels if international community fails to, national security adviser says" https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/09/middleeast/israel-houthi-yemen-warning-intl-hnk/index.html
The UN defensive force that I referred to earlier. That's the entire point of that task force... to protect shipping in the Red and Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean. They don't need to exterminate the Houthi Movement, they will just more closely keep an eye on shipping as it passes through the strait.
That's already what's been happening, as there have already been news stories of US, French, and Chinese ships downing missiles being fired from Yemen, and air patrols have been increased.
Okay, but what for-profit shipping company would take the risk? How much damage do you think the Yemenis can do to all the world's navies gathered? None at all? Maybe check with USS Cole.
I think the best response here, is to just ask you to watch it play out. You may be surprised.
Yemen has already been able to outright capture two and strike two so far. This isn't a hypothetical, "what will Yemen do", it's what they're already doing.