This topic is not about trump sh***ing his pants but about the catastrophic Houthi offensive, coming as a consequence of the disastrous war in Iran. The Americans lost the war, and the repercussions are still rolling in. About a third of the world's oil supply goes through the two straits, and if the Iranians and Houthis decide to put the squeeze on, the EU as well as a few Asian nations will have to go and rescue the Americans, which will be very costly, both in lives and Euros. They should only agree to do so if trump agrees to fire Hegseth and then resign. "For all the setbacks suffered by Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” over the past year or two, its forces retain an ideological fervor and an esprit de corps that is sorely lacking on the other side. The Gulf states’ failure to work together against the Houthis has been catastrophic, and it echoes Trump’s own failure to devise a plausible or coordinated strategy against Iran. Although the Houthis already had the ability to threaten shipping in the Red Sea, the capture of the Bab el-Mandeb “means you can literally sit on the coast and fire at passing ships,” April Longley Alley, a Yemen expert at the Washington Institute on Near East Policy and the former political adviser to the United Nations special envoy for Yemen, told me."
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