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The Yemeni Ansarullah resistance forces made it clear from the outset that they had implemented a blockade in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the southern Red Sea only against ships belonging to Israel or intended for this country. Their only goal was and remains to stop the Gaza genocide perpetrated by Israeli biblical psychopathy.

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In response to the moral call to end human genocide, the United States, masters of the global war on terror, has predictably redesignated Yemen's Houthis as a "terrorist organization", launched a serial bombing of Ansarullah's underground military installations (assuming US intelligence knows where they are) and formed a mini-coalition of volunteers including their British, Canadian, Australian, Dutch and Bahraini vassals.

Without wasting any time, Yemen's Parliament declared the US and UK governments "global terrorist networks".

Now let's talk strategy.

In one fell swoop, the Yemeni resistance seized the strategic advantage by de facto controlling a key geoeconomic bottleneck: Bab el-Mandeb. It can thus cause serious problems for the global supply chain, trade and financial sectors.

And Ansarullah has the potential to double down - if necessary. Persian Gulf traders have confirmed, unofficially, that Yemen may consider imposing an "Al-Aqsa triangle", named after the October 7 Palestinian resistance operation that aimed to destroy the Israeli military division of Gaza and capturing prisoners as part of a massive prisoner exchange deal.

Such a measure would involve selectively blocking not only the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea route to the Suez Canal, but also the Strait of Hormuz, thereby cutting off oil and gas deliveries to Israel from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - although Israel's main oil suppliers are actually Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.

These Yemenis are afraid of nothing. If they managed to impose the triangle - in this case only with direct Iranian involvement - it would represent the Grand Design on cosmic steroids of General Qassem Soleimani of the Quds Force, assassinated by the United States. This plan has the realistic potential to collapse the hundreds of trillions of dollars derivatives pyramid and, therefore, the entire Western financial system.

And yet, while Yemen controls the Red Sea and Iran the Strait of Hormuz, the Al-Aqsa Triangle remains only a working hypothesis.

Welcome to the Hegemon's blockade

With a simple and clear strategy, the Houthis have perfectly understood that the more they lure the strategically deprived Americans into the geopolitical swamp of West Asia, in a sort of “undeclared war” mode, the more they are able to inflict serious pain on the global economy, which the Global South will blame on the Hegemon.

Today, Red Sea shipping traffic has fallen by half compared to summer 2023; supply chains are shaky; ships carrying food are forced to bypass Africa (and risk delivering cargo past its expiration date); As might be expected, inflation in the EU's vast agricultural sphere (worth 70 billion euros) is rising rapidly.

However, you should never underestimate a cornered empire.

Western insurance giants have fully understood the rules of Ansarullah's limited blockade: Russian and Chinese ships, for example, can sail freely in the Red Sea. Global insurers only refused to cover American, British and Israeli ships, exactly as the Yemenis wanted.

So the United States predictably turned the narrative into a big lie: “Ansarullah is attacking the entire global economy.”

Washington has put the turbo on sanctions (which is not serious since the Yemeni resistance uses Islamic financing), intensified the bombings and, in the name of the sacrosanct "freedom of navigation" - always applied in a manner selective - has bet on the "international community", notably the leaders of the Global South, who implore him to show clemency, that is, to leave the shipping lanes open, please. The goal of America's new, reframed deception is to push the Global South to abandon its support for Ansarullah's strategy.

Pay attention to this crucial US sleight of hand: Because, from now on, in a new perverse twist to Operation Genocide Protection, it is Washington that will block the Red Sea for the entire world. Washington itself will be spared: American shipping depends on Pacific trade routes, not those of West Asia. Asian customers and especially the European economy, already hard hit by Russian energy sanctions linked to Ukraine, will suffer even more.

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