The West assumed Yemen’s Houthis couldn’t raise their game. They did.

Three ships attacked, a $30m drone downed and now they have submarine drones of their own. The Houthi rebels ain’t stopping! Right, so it’s now a month after the US and the UK decided to go to war against the Houthis in Yemen, who of course declared that they would stop all Israeli shipping in solidarity with Gaza, a blockade on Israeli shipping and despite being the poorest Arab nation going, with it’s own civil unrest and having been on the receiving end of Saudi attacks for years, they’ve made good on their threats, using drones and speedboats to drive off much larger ships and render the southern Israeli port of Eilat virtually redundant. The trouble is, we had the West going how very dare you stop Israel from ‘defending itself’ by committing genocide in Gaza, who do you think you are, you need to know your place, and so came Operation Prosperity Guardian, chiefly led by the US and the UK. All this achieved, was those same drone attacks being aimed at US and UK shipping and those two countries getting added to the Houthi’s Red Sea block list. Then came the strikes against Yemeni land targets to try and stop the Houthis, but that hasn’t worked either, because if the West thought this was all the Houthis, had they were sorely mistaken. Right, so with so many other things going on, it’s been a while since I covered the goings on in the Red Sea and the Houthi responses to having been bombed by the US and UK in response to their actions against commercial shipping heading to Israel. There had been no fatalities whatsoever caused by the Houthi drone strikes and their speedboat harassment, they’d created a whole new form of naval blockade, the first time in its history that such a blockade had been achieved without the need for a very expensive to maintain navy, such is the advantage the Houthis have in terms of geography, being able to cause chaos at the narrow Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, the Red Sea itself is none too wide either, and nor indeed is the Gulf of Aden, leading into the Strait. That’s a lot of Yemeni coastline to get past, for anyone wanting to access the Suez Canal, the shortcut for some 12% of global trade. The excuse was made, the Houthis are attacking all shipping, except they weren’t just that destined for and leaving from Israel. Still now there are stories about a ship from this country or that country getting struck by Houthi attacks, but it is not where the ship is registered that counts, it is whether it is bound for Israel or not and, thanks to our involvement in trying to stop the Houthis by force, instead of doing the right, just and frankly as can now be seen far easier option of stopping Israel committing genocide. As soon as Israel stop attacking Gaza, Yemen will stop attacking shipping. Stopping them by force hasn’t worked, killing Houthis, the first to actually die in this blockade of Israeli shipping hasn’t stopped them, they aren’t wired up that way, they’re quite prepared to die for the cause and it is costing us and the US a bloody fortune shooting down cheap drones with very expensive missiles. But if the West thought the Houthis were at the limits of their abilities and their armaments, funded by Iran as they are, the media does like to remind us of that, then we were sorely wrong. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I’m Damien Willey. I’m a former welder, but now I’m a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on ) I’m an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them. ►CONTACT: Email: @ ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you’d like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at Damo Rants Kernow Damo yemen,yemen houthis,houthis,houthis yemen,houthi,israel,yemen houthi rebels,yemen houthi,yemen israel,yemen palestine,yemeni houthis,saudi arabia,houthi rebels,gaza,houthis attack red sea,red sea houthis attack,houthis in yemen,houthis attack on israel,houthis israel,red sea attacks,rubymar,houthi attack on uk ship,reaper drone shot down,us reaper drone shot down,sea champion houthis,navis fortuna houthis,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,damorants