LOS ANGELES.–U.S. and British military officials look increasingly bogged down in the Red Sea, Gult of Aden, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, fending off ballistic missile and drone attacks by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists. Biden no longer only funds the Ukraine war with the Kremlin but now can’t stop unremitting Houthi attacks on shipping in the great international waterways og the Mideast and Horn of Africa. Responding to more Houthi missile and drone attacks, the Pentagon lauches nearly daily strikes on Houthi missiles, launchers, rockets, drones and ummaned surface and underwater vehicles. Pentagon daily strikes come from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group currently stationed in the Red Sea. None of Biden counteracts on Houthi targets have stopped the Iranian-backed terror group from stopping attacks on commercial shipping.
Since Nov. 19, 2023, Houthis have launched 57 attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Eden. Biden has no diplomatic leverage to deal with ongoing Houthi attacks, all part of Iran’s “axis of resistance,” apparently responding to Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare war. Houthi rebels, like the Somali pirates, have been engaged in lawless activity for years. Houthi rebels have been at war with Saudi Arabia since 2015 attacking Saudi’s Riyadh international airport and Aramco oil refineries. Houthi’s attacks his a crescendo in 2018 prompting former President Donald Trump to cancel former President Barack Obama’s Iranian Nuke Deal May 8, 2018. Since taking office, 81-year-old President Joe Biden has tried to reestablish the Iranian Nuke Deal, handing Iran billions in frozen assets to Tehran.
Biden finds himself mire in a reckless, wasteful proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin, when he should be work feverishly to end the war with ceasefire and peace talks. Biden has so badly damaged U.S.-Russian relations that the Kremlin considers the U.S. a mortal enemy. Generations of U.S. presidents since WW II worked feverishly to establish cooperative, pragmatic relations with the Kremlin. Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine with the Kremlin has all but wrecked U.S.-Russian relations. Instead of randomly bombing Houthi targets, the U.S. could use the help of the Russian Federation to stop Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Biden could use Putin’s help in resolving crises around the globe. Now that Biden funds proxy war in Ukraine, the Kremlin is now a mortal enemy with the U.S., no longer a strategic partner.
Creating enemies of the Kremlin has been a colossal blunder by Biden, not realizing how U.S.-Russian relations has actually helped U.S. national security. So, in backing Ukraine militarily, Biden ended generations of U.S.-Russian relations, used to solve crises around the globe, but, more importantly, to maintain world peace. Ending the post-WW II order, Biden opted to fund proxy war against the Kremlin at the expense of U.S. foreign policy and national security. Putin would be extremely helpful in stopping Iran from supplying arms-and-cash to Houthi rebels. We’ve certainly seen in the past 48, 72 hours an increase in attack from the Houthis,” Pentagon Spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said Thursday at a briefing. “We never said we’ve wiped of the map all of their capabilities,” Singh said, making excuses why Houthis can’t be stopped.
Singh made clear that the Pentagon is in a pitched battle with Houthis in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden to keep international shipping flowing. “We know that the Houthis a large arsenal. They are very capable. They have sophisticated weapons, and that’s because they continue to get them from Iran,” Singh said, not explain why the Pentagon has not gone directly after Iran. Without Putin on the U.S. side, Biden has made U.S. diplomacy next to impossible, now dealing with a two-front war, one in Ukraine, the other in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Biden refuses to attack Iran directly, knowing it could open up another front, spreading the Pentagon even more thin. If Biden is given four more years, there’s no telling how many conflicts the U.S. could be waging. If another front opens in Taiwan, it could paralyze the Pentagon from defending U.S. national security.
Fighting already in Ukraine and now in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, the Pentagon finds itself wedged between competing interests. Biden can’t manage U.S. foreign policy through linkage with a combination of U.S. adversaries or allies. He’s painted U.S. national security into a corner, only relying on traditional U.S. allies that can do nothing to stop emerging threats. As long as Biden alienates Russia and China, the world has become a dangerous place for U.S. interests. Consequences of unstoppable Houthi/Iranian attacks on global shipping have been disaster, forcing many ships to go around the Cape of Good Hope, a far longer and more costly route to avoid the ever-dangerous Red Sea. If Biden would end the Ukraine War and get back to normal diplomacy with the Kremlin, he’d find a real partner with Putin helping to reduce dangers on the high seas.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
