Biden does nothing as Iran-backed Houthis humiliate us
NY Post
The world’s lone superpower has been unable to protect one of the most important commercial arteries on Earth from a band of Third World rebels.
Welcome to the latest humiliation of a Biden administration foreign policy premised on not being overly provocative toward our enemies.
Shipping companies have announced they are going to avoid the Red Sea and Bab-al-Mandab, a narrow strait connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, after a sustained campaign of attacks from Houthi fighters in Yemen.
This is a blow to freedom of navigation — one of the jewels of the US-led order — and a tremendous success for the Iranian-aligned Houthis, who have leveraged drones, missiles and attempted seizures of ships to gain the upper hand over the world’s foremost navy.
We are not talking about a backwater but a key passageway for East-West commerce.
Nearly 12% percent of global trade passes through the Red Sea, including a prodigious amount of oil from the Persian Gulf.
