Trump goes full throttle for Houthis

Trump has now sent a second aircraft carrier to start hitting the Houthis big time. While the Houthis deserve everything they get for literally disrupting the world's container-ship deliveries around the globe with drone and rocket attacks, even two mighty US carriers will prtobably not be able to eliminate the Houthi threat. This rebel group in Yemen have managed to construct an underground empire of arms manufacturing which cannot be reached by ordinary bombs. How they have done it is not clear but I guess with Iranian construction assistance. Iran has likewise buried all their most sensitive and lethal weaponry under mountains, including of course their clandestine nuclear programme. So, however many bombs dropped by the aircraft on board the two carriers, the bunkered drone and rocket building production lines will probably survive the onslaught. Only a full-scale ground operation could eliminate the Houthis and that's not going to happen. Bombing from the air is always the favoured option but as past operations by the Saudi-led coalition of Gulf states have shown, airtsrikes never win victories, they just cause massive damage and, inevitably, civilian deaths. Unfortunately, groups like the Houthis have learnt to become super-resilient. And with continuing help from Tehran, they will carry on their attacks on shipping.