It says something for Trump that he saw, after one month, that he had made a mistake and stopped the Red Sea campaign. From Kit Klarenberg at kitklarenberg.com:
On May 12th, the New York Times published a forensic autopsy of the failure of the Trump administration’s renewed hostilities against AnsarAllah in the Red Sea. The probe teems with extraordinary disclosures, spelling out in stark detail how the combined air and naval effort – launched with enormous fanfare and much bombastic rhetoric from US officials – was an even greater debacle, and devastating defeat, for the Empire than hitherto thought. The cataclysm’s scale may explain Washington’s sudden determination to reach a negotiated settlement with Iran.
Perhaps the most striking revelation is that Trump’s blitzkrieg against Yemen was initially planned to be a long-term, large-scale engagement, culminating in a ground invasion using proxy forces. General Michael Kurilla, Commander of the Pentagon’s Central Command, which covers Central, South and West Asia, had been in favor of all-out war with AnsarAllah ever since the Resistance group’s righteous anti-genocide Red Sea blockade commenced in late 2023. Reportedly though, Joe Biden was wary that a “forceful campaign” would elevate God’s Partisans “on the global stage.”
With Trump’s re-election, “Kurilla had a new commander in chief”, and an opportunity to up the ante against God’s Partisans significantly. He pitched an eight – 10 month effort, starting with saturation bombing of Yemen’s air defense systems, before a wave of targeted assassinations of AnsarAllah leaders, directly inspired by Israel’s pager attacks on Hezbollah’s senior members in September 2024. Kurilla’s grand operation was eagerly supported by elements of Trump’s administration, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
It feels good being in God’s Fifth Column.
Was it due to the cost or the fear of a sunken carrier?
Some say DJT is fine with Israeli ships being targeted.
I wouldn’t hit the hopium pipe that DJT isn’t owned by the chosenites and no seat on the mythical Rapture Express if you don’t love Israel.