By Pepe Escobar
The Cradle
January 31, 2024
When there is a general change of conditions,
It is as if the entire creation had changed
and the whole world been altered,
as if it were a new and repeated creation,
a world brought into existence anew.
— Ibn Khaldun
Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance forces have made it very clear, right
from the start, that they set up a blockade in the Bab el-Mandeb and the
southern Red Sea only against Israeli-owned or destined shipping
vessels. Their single objective was and remains to stop the Gaza
genocide perpetrated by the Israeli biblical psychopathy.
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As a response to a morally-based call to end a human genocide, the United States, masters of the Global War Of Terror
(italics mine), predictably re-designated Yemen’s Houthis as a
“terrorist organization,” launched a serial bombardment of underground
Ansarallah military installations (assuming US intel know where they
are), and cobbled together a mini-coalition of the willing that includes
its UK, Canadian, Australian, Dutch, and Bahraini vassals.
Without missing a beat, Yemen’s Parliament declared the US and UK governments “Global Terrorist Networks.”
Now let’s talk strategy.
With a single move, the Yemeni resistance seized the strategic
advantage by de facto controlling a key geoeconomic bottleneck: the Bab
el-Mandeb. Hence, they can inflict serious trouble on sectors of global
supply chains, trade, and finance.