Thanks for the update on the situation in the Red Sea at its connection with the Indian Ocean.
Isn’t it an important mission of the U.S. Navy to keep such passages open?
In case they need directions, the Iranian-backed Houthis Yemen’s have their base of operations at Sana’a, capitol of Yemen.
It appears the purpose of this Houthis effort is to fan up world pressure on Israel to stop exterminating Hamas, another Iranian front.
At the end of WW2 the US needed cannon fodder to stand between us and Joseph Stalin's Red Army. So, we created the Breton Woods System. We would use our naval power to ensure that anyone could go anywhere and trade anything world wide for the low, low price of having you side with us against the Soviet Union. It worked. Nations could now specialize and do what they do best and use the proceeds to buy what they needed. Nations that previously couldn't industrialize, industrialized. World trade boomed. Despite a huge rise in population, per capita wealth increased. A lot.
Since the end of the Soviet Union the US has generally taken the stance that it is no longer our job to police the world's oceans. The exception is piracy. The founding document for the current version of the US Navy lists one of our jobs as anti-piracy.
As I stated in my original post, the big problem is that the ships being threatened are not registered in nor do they pay taxes to the nations with navies capable of protecting them.
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