President Trump has an opportunity to wipe out the Iran sponsored Houthi rebels who continually attack Navy shios private ships. The Houthis have so far attacked U.S. naval vessels 174 times and commercial vessels 145 times since 2023. Joe Biden tied the hands of the Naval commanders by forcing them to get permissiom to engage the Houthi and the process took so much timt (Intentionslly?) that the terrorists were aloready long gone. President Trump reversed that rule and the commanders make their own decisions.
Joe Biden removed the Houthi as a terrorist organization. Trump wasted no time in changing their designation. President Trump has a history of dismantling terrorist groups. In his ffirst term Trumo gutted ISIS of 98% of it’s territory. The Houthis will be more difficult because they are a tribe and civilians will be injured or killed . Democrats +will use civilian casualtiesv against bTrump but they will mourn the terrorists. Trump should just write the Demoicrats for supporting the wrong country.
Trump said:
“Terrorists who oppress and murder innocent people should never sleep soundly, knowing that we will completely destroy them. These savage monsters will not escape their fate, and they will not escape the final judgment of God.”
Simone Ledeen, senior fellow at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law claimed:
“During the Biden administration, they took what they called ‘defensive strikes,’ defensive actions against the Houthis, but allowed them to continue operating. And President Trump has made it clear that will not continue. It already looks to be a more holistic operation that’s not just focused on defense, but on offense, and removing the threat in order to enable freedom of access to the Red Sea, which is what we Americans need.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“We’ve been in a protracted conflict in Yemen for years, and we don’t want to be, because they’ve been attacking us.”
“The normal way that the military is meant to operate is to push approval down to the lowest possible level, because you trust your commanders to make the decisions. They’re the ones that are on the ground. They’re the ones who are seeing the reality. And in many cases, if you’re waiting for approval from the White House, if you have a fleeting target, you miss them.”
The alternate route, around the Horn of Africa, cost ships an additional $1 million in fuel and adds roughly two weeks of transit time, according to the DIA report.
The Houthi rebels are a close ally of Iran, which supplies the group with weapons and logistical support often used to attack the shipping lane, as well as U.S. allies like Israel.
Since 2002, the U.S. has conducted more than 400 strikes in Yemen, later directly assisting Saudi forces beginning in April 2016, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Under former President Joe Biden, military commanders had increased oversight from the administration on what strikes they carried out, which sometimes hindered their ability to act in a timely manner, Ledeen told the DCNF.
Trump, on the other hand, expanded the authority commanders have to pursue special operations and other strikes without having to consult the White House first, giving the military the ability to respond quickly and with greater autonomy to tackle the Houthis, Ledeen explained.
Trump announced on Truth Social Monday that he would hold Iran accountable for any further attacks from the Houthis. Additionally, his administration re-designated the rebels as a foreign terrorist organization on March 4, after Biden removed the designation during his term.
“Within one month of taking office, the Biden administration reversed the Houthis’ designation,” the White House wrote in a January statement regarding the re-designation. “As a result of the Biden administration’s weak policy, the Houthis have fired at U.S. Navy warships dozens of times, launched numerous attacks on civilian infrastructure in partner nations, and attacked commercial vessels transiting Bab al-Mandeb more than 100 times.”
“Let nobody be fooled!” Trump said in his post on Monday. “The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN.”
