HOUTHI’S RADAR SITES STRUCK….WAIT….WHAT… RADAR SITES?

The US military “retaliated” against the Houthi radar sites in Yemen after the Navy’s second missile attack against them in a week. Yes, I said that correctly. “Houthi Radar Sites”! Does that statement confuse you? It should. How in the world did the Houthi rebels acquire “Radar Sites”? Well, here is where the story gets interesting and if you are a supporter of the current US position on Iran, you may want to go read something else.   

Yemen. A county that is below the level of “collapsed Nation State”. In fact, other than international recognition, I’m not sure Yemen is really even a country by definition. A slice of land that has been in conflict from the day it was invented. North vs South. Sunni vs Shia. One Clan vs another. Poor? Yemen makes “Poor” sound manageable. It’s a land of forgotten history. A place where herders serve as the local government and the rules / laws are based upon how many guns one has in their clan.  

As hard as it may seem to believe, Yemen took a turn for the worse a little over two years ago. When the Persians decided to open another proxy hotspot with the Suni flagship, Saudi, Yemen came back on the scene. Now, Yemen had the West’s attention for several years before the Iranian proxy event given Yemen was a training and operational base for some of the most radical Sunni “Terrorist Groups” in the world. It was the perfect laboratory for groups looking to strike out at the “nonbelievers” of the world. Before that, Yemen was a cold war topic caught between the Soviets and the West. In the end, Yemen has been the tool of several movements with the Persian exploitation being the most recent.   

Houthi:

Need to know who they are? Simple. They are the Shia side of the Sectarian conflict in Yemen and thus they are supported by Iran.

As I was reading some of today’s postings by the so called “experts” on the region, I once again had to shake my head at the core issue they all seemed fixated on. “Iran is supplying the Houthi groups with “sophisticated weapons”. Not sure how many years you had to spend reading books at Georgetown University or how many cocktail parties you had to attend with the US Department of State to come to that conclusion, but the point was off target just as much as the missiles that were fired at the US Navy. By the way, the UAE Navy was not as fortunate as the US Navy as you can see with the picture I’ve attached to this post.

Yes the weapons used by the Houthi groups are from Iran. Yes, Iran is openly supporting the conflict, now more than ever. Their exposure to being involved in Yemen has become very evident compared to the early phase of their proxy fight there. Here is the real question that is not being asked, at least not at a level that anyone in the West really cares to ask.

How is it that the West / US / can allow this to happen in Yemen? Iran. The county the US had such a resounding success with on the nuclear weapons issue? Iran, the country that still calls for the destruction of the “Great Satan” ….. you know…. The US!  How can it be that weapons of capable of interdicting shipping in a strategic location of the littoral  lanes near Africa, look at the map if you are confused,  can not only be shipped to Yemen, but allowed to be set up and become operational? Why would Iran support this when they are trying so hard to forge a new alliance with the Western world?

Iran is not trying to forge anything with the West. The current leadership in Iran hates the West now more than ever. Why? Because the Moderates in their country convinced their leadership that the nuclear arms deal would lead to free markets and access to world banking networks. It would lead to them not having to give up their nuclear weapons program, but it would allow them to mend their devastated economy. Well, as much as the US has tried to make that pledge happen, it’s not happening to the level the real leaders of Iran are happy with. They didn’t get it all their way and it didn’t happen as soon as they crossed their fingers and signed some laughable agreement on nuclear weapons development with the clueless UN watching over them.

The real leadership of Iran has placed far too much value on the sectarian conflict in the region and keeping the Southern border with Saudi in crisis is vital to their overall plan.

How easy it must have been for them to see the value in openly shipping arms to Yemen knowing all along the US had virtually destroyed its relationship with Saudi. Would the US dare intervene in Iran’s exploits with Yemen? No! How could they? It would mean they would have to admit they were wrong on the entire Iranian initiative and the Iranian leadership knew all too well the ego of the current US President would never allow that to happen.  

What the US taxpayers experienced this week was a nation that the US President secretly released Billions of dollars to, remember that line about the most “transparent Administration in the history of the US”, providing a group of warlords the ability to attack the US Navy!  Does someone want to explain to me US Foreign Policy again? I’ve been working on that mystery for almost eight years now.  

So, today, the US fired back! Tomahawks struck the radar sites in Yemen. Radar sites that shouldn’t even be there! I have to wonder what the conversation was in Riyadh when this report came in. Did we tell the Saudi’s we were going to strike the sites?

When these sites were hit, who was operating them? Now, there is a very important question and let me explain why.  Does anyone believe these radar, launch control sites were actually manned by Houthi fighters? Think about it. A group of unemployed misfits and Mercenaries from somewhere else in the region being trained to the level that they could track, lock on to and fire upon a US Naval ship, not to mention hit a UAE ship just days earlier. All of this accomplished with an upgraded weapons system that has a very limited training program. If someone died in the US’s counter-strike today, where were they from? Persians? Where they Persians? Do anyone think the US administration will ever admit this? You can bet they know. The Intelligence in Yemen is there. The Saudi’s ability to gather human intelligence in Yemen is more than enough to answer this question. But then again, did the Saudi’s share that information? Just how damaged is the US relationship with Saudi?

Once again, today’s actions fly below the tabloid radar in the US media. “Donald Trump grabbed someone’s butt”…… “Hillary lied to the FBI”.   The Gong Show version of the US Presidential elections is all anyone in the US is drooling over.

Oh, by the way, Iran Navy moved into the waters off the coast of Yemen today.

Where is this all heading?

Worse yet. Does anyone care?

The loved ones of those who were almost struck aboard the US Naval vessel do.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall of the Kremlin tonight.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/10/13/US-strikes-Houthis-after-attacks-on-navy-ship.html