"Suspicion immediately fell on the Houthis...."
“Houthi hell are those guys?”
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"Suspicion immediately fell on the Houthis...."
Bah!
They know exactly from where the missile was launched and who launched it. They should have smeared them into paste by now with a counterstrike. They did not.
Our "rules of engagement" are defined to ensure that we lose this conflict.
Which means Iran (and Russia) will control all of the shipping through the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. That will not be good for the globalist elites. And oddly enough, that will not be good for the United States or Europe or China or Japan.
The horrible truth is that we may not be able to win this conflict. Our navy is in poor shape and does not have effective technology to deal with modern drone attackers and other antiship missiles. If the Houthis are allowed to setup enough Iranian drone inventories and Russian air defenses, our naval forces will simply be targets for swarm attacks to which we cannot respond.
In any case, commercial shipping is defenseless against missile attacks. It can resume only by permission of Iran. That is a bad thing.
Defensive strategies are losing strategies when underlying technologies change. We must learn from our enemies.