US-British Strikes on Yemen Seek to Provoke Wider War with Iran (TheNewAtlas)

-US-British strikes on Yemen have predictably only escalated regional tensions;

-Yemen has been targeted for years not only by US-British backed Saudi air and missile strikes, but also a multi-year, Saudi-led ground invasion, neither of which impacted Ansar Allah's military capabilities;

- US-British strikes on Yemen have only made passage through the Red Sea more dangerous, delaying by many months the possibility of commercial shipping returning to the route;

- US policy papers have laid out the ultimate objective for the region is removing Iran as a competitor through regime change using covert action within Iran while undermining Iranian allies across the region;

- Rather than attempting to de escalate and stabilize the region, it is clear the US is determined to do exactly the opposite, ultimately hoping to draw Iran into a direct confrontation;



While the general military analysis is correct Brian gets it wrong where he says that the US is using Israel as an excuse to get at targets in the Middle East. The US has been captured by pro Israeli neocons and their politicians are targets of a massively lobbying and blackmail campaign. While there are overlapping Israeli and US geo-strategic interests in the region the US, and UK, are puppets of their sponsors and blackmailers. There is no real need for either the US and UK to be involved in the region. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, January 24, 2024.]