Tuesday, 31 December 2024
The Houthis get battered but always fight on
For months now there has been a separate war going on between the Houthi rebel forces in southern Yemen and a coalition of Israel, the US, Britain and other European partners. The Houthis fire a lot of rockets and drones and missiles towards Israel and towards commercial shipping in the Red Sea and within minutes the retaliation comes from the skies. Today, the last day of 2024, it was the turn of the Americans to bomb Houthi targets in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, and elsewhere. A month or so back, the Pentagon sent B-52s - the big beasts of the US Air Force - to batter Houthi targets in Yemen. The Israelis are retaliating on a regular basis. You might ask, what is left of the Houthi military infrastructure? Hasn't it all been destroyed by now? But no, it doesn't seem to take long before the Houthis launch a bunch of new missiles and drones. This war is never ending. As soon as the Houthis started seizing territory from the official government of Yemen, a Saudi-led coalition of Arab nations started bombing like crazy. But they achieved nothing exceot kill thousands of civilians, and in the end, gave up. Now it's left to Israel, the US and dear old Britain etc to take over the bombing role.It's one of those weird wars where no one wins or loses. The Houthis nmust have lost hundreds if not thousands of their fighters and a huge proportion of their rocket bases, air-defence sites and weapons stores. And yet they keep going, armed and rearmed by Iran. As a country, Yemen is a total mess, with hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced, many of them suffering from starvation or malnutrition, while the bombs keep falling. Someone should sort this out and let the people of Yemen lead a life devoid of terror and the threat of death. It's time the Houthis were stoppeed, once and for all.
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