We start today with a one-two video punch.
The Houthis of Yemen are playing pirate in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, allegedly targetting Israeli shipping but doing a bad job of it.
The US Navy has been slow to react because, for reasons Peter Zeihan has explained time and again, the US playing World Police as a pragmatic Cold War policy and the Cold War ended in 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union.
Since then, Globohomo's faction of Empire rose ascendant and so long as there was sufficient lucre for the Thralls of Empire in the United States this would go on in a fashion suitable for everyone's benefit. (And benefit they did.)
So what's with the pause on reactions?
Simple enough, this time: the Pentagon is waiting to see what the Gulf States and Iran do, and in the meantime--and this, I admit upfront, is speculation on my part--I think that certain mercenary companies are getting inquiries about taking on a contract to deal with this piracy issue. Keeping two carrier groups on station ain't cheap, and protecting any merchant vessel not bearing a US flag--and that's the majority of them--is not a US Navy priority now.
In short, worried states and corporations are going to return to tradition and start cutting checks to Soldiers of Fortune- like this guy here.
Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater
Until exactly what is to be done is settled, that media silence will remain in place and only those who follow international shipping in particular and events related to Gaza generally are going to hear much at all- which is not to say nothing and no one, but rather that Normies aren't going to know or care until they see that pirates are fucking with their ability to buy stuff.
This, by the by, is why the Houthis are fucked unless they step up their due dilligence and ensure that only Israelis are hit by the pirate attacks. Not foreign crews. Not foreign vessels. Their intelligence to date has been dogshit, having them to attack uninvolved third parties several times and now forcing shipping disruptions that threaten to affect China, India, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Phillipines, Vietnam, all of Europe, all of the Americas, and--believe it or not--even Russia.
Good job, morons. Turn the world against you. This is how the Barbary Pirates ended up getting murked into extinction.
Once a decision is made, and actions against the Houthis are taken--and don't expect the US military to be the ones to do it; the Houthis pissed off the Japanese- that's not a good thing--it will go down with the support of the whole world because they fucked with uninvolved parties.
And meanwhile, the very objective behind it all--the support for Gaza--is not only driven out of the minds of those same people, they associate Houthi piracy with street-level banditry in their own countries (no, blocking the roads and impeding commerce as a protest doesn't endear you to anyone; without tacit State support, this doesn't not work), which will end up with tactic support for Israel as a result.
And you better believe that Israeli Narrative Warfare agents are on this beat right now. No one cares about events half a world away when their finances, already thinned, get fucked with even harder due to some concrete action by some jackass making their bad lives worse.
This is a major Frame Game fail, and I only wish Frame Game was over there to beat some sense into their leadership. Instead, we can look forward to them getting turned into chunky salsa with public approval.
Idiots.
No wonder Israel wins so many wars against its neighbors.
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