WILKERSON: China's Watching How Houthis Fought U.S. to Standstill for Months
Trump administration doesn't want Americans to know why the Houthis are attacking ships tied to Israel in the Red Sea.
The Chinese government is, no doubt, watching how the Houthis in Yemen — considered unsophisticated by Washington — fought the U.S. military to a standstill in the Red Sea as the Yemeni group defends Palestinians from Israeli genocide in Gaza, Lawrence Wilkerson, retired US Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, told “Dialogue Works.”
Wilkerson noted how the Trump administration has tried to present the group as a “band of criminals” intent on terrorizing merchant ships in the Red Sea for no reason other than to attack the West, which is pure bullshit.
The Houthis have made good on their promise to defend Gazans who face a brutal humanitarian blockade and daily massacres by the IDF. (When this is fire was agreed upon before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Houthis stopped attacking. When Israel abandoned the ceasefire and started bombing Gaza again, the Houthis restarted their campaign.
Wilkerson noted how politicians and bureaucrats in Washington look down on Yemenis as primitive and less-than-human, but he said the force has stood up to an entire carrier group and has fought it to a draw.
“Other countries around the world that have stood in fear of the United States must be looking at that and going, ‘Huh,’ he said, particularly the Chinese.
“If a carrier strike group is struggling like the U.S. is right now to stop the flow of missiles, imagine what would happen if you put a carrier strike group off the coast of China,” he said. “China's got some things that the Yemenis don't have,” including satellites, a larger array of hypersonic missiles, aircraft that can launch bombs, and submarines.
He said the U.S. should learn that there are limits to its military power.
Wilkerson also noted that the U.S. tries to tie Iran to the Houthis and indicates that Tehran can just tell the group to stop firing, as though Iran is the “pimp” and the Houthis are the “prostitutes,” which he said is not the case.
He said it is a relationship built on friendship and the Houthis would not like it if Tehran told it to stop the fighting.
Washington started its new campaign in Yemen on 15 March and the country has been bombed nearly every day. Reports indicate that reports are unclear about the total casualty figures and structural damage. The Saturday strikes targeted what the U.S. identified as a major military facility in the country’s capital Sanaa.
The Trump administration has tied the Houthis to the Iranians and said the military strikes have been “successful beyond our wildest expectations,” which drew a laugh from Wilkerson.
Yahya Saree, a Houthi spokesman, told reporters that the “American aggression will only increase the Yemenis’ steadfast and resilience, and that the confrontations over the last few days were only the beginning of what will be a gradual expansion of decisive operations in the coming days.”
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The Signal group chat that included top administration officials that focused on the first round of strikes seemed to show some disagreements within the administration about the need to fire upon Yemen.