The USA had been involved in the Saudi Arabia/Yemen conflict for over seven years, supplying weapons to the Saudis, but still unable to win the fight. In fact, many people around the world had been saying that there was a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Yemen involving refugees then, more serious than in Ukraine, but the whole world just closed its eyes feigning ignorance with the situation, just because that was being ignored by the MSM. Out of the news, out of mind seems to be the case.
After the peace deal on March 10, 2023, between Iran and Saudi Arabia brokered by the Chinese, things quietened down for a while after Iran's support for the Yemenis were no longer needed to fight the Saudis.
Hostilities between Israel and the Houthis erupted with the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in October 2023, during which the Houthis began to show its support for Hamas, and with the USA supporting Israel, the Houthis began to attack USA and Israeli shipping.
The USA may be thinking of having boots on the ground in Yemen, which will be another Afghanistan version 2. The lesson still not registering in the minds of the USA leaders is the believe that might is always right, which does not always equate to victory. Lesson have obviously not been learnt from the Vietnam and Afghanistan War. Then, the USA, with its aerial power, had been bombing the Vietcong day and night, with more than seven and a half million tons of bombs dropped on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, the largest aerial bombardment in military history, and yet still without securing a victory.
The Houthis are just as tenacious as the Vietcong, and with weapons support from Iran, they are unlikely to back down, threats or not from Trump. The USA is not in a strong position in terms of weapon manufacturing, not with China sanctioning the export of essential metals for making bombs and other weapons like drones.
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Trump can act gung-ho and put boots on the ground in Yemen. Everything in Trump's mind is so easy, as easy as going bankrupt six times. Go Donny go, just do it and get a taste of the Vietnam that he himself avoided, using his bone spurs as the excuse to avoid military service. And he is now the Commander-in-Chief! What a turn-up for the books!
Please do not forget that Mexico will pay for the wall he gloated during his first term. Now, who is footing the bill? Trade wars are easy to win, yet the USA is still having huge trade deficits with China and China's trade surplus is touching a record US$1 trillion. What about his mission to get Kim Jong Un to de-nuclearize, which ended in abject failure. Try again would be laughable.
Trump gloated about ending the Ukraine War within 24 hours and what is happening to his boasting? Call it a glitch to make things more beautiful, like the leaks in his administration about bombing the Houthis. And the beauty of it all is that 51% of the Hillbillies still voted for him. But I would say that most voters are between the devil and the deep blue sea, without a credible choice or being given a 'Hobson's Choice'.
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