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If you wanna unite the world powers against you, the easy way to do that is to target international shipping
Exactly, the spice must flow
World powers lol. Lost to goat herders in Afghanistan. Can't even afford the war in Ukraine.
The only reason they're not invading Yemen is because they know it's gonna cost billions of dollars and they'll lose anyways.
I'm sorry but if the West / the USA aren't world powers in your book, then who is?
Lost. To. Goat. Farmers.
World powers is an incredibly overplayed term when everyone can now launch drones and missles from a huge distance. Sure people can't invade America but America sure as hell can't just invade everywhere either. America will only invade places where they can steal huge amounts of natural resources that offset this cost. Not Yemen.
America can easily win one war but they can't win at every place at once
An American ship can defend a few kms but it would take a whole military invasion to prevent the Houthis from launching across the entire country since they got long range missles.
Not to forget Ukraine is slowly getting ditched too so the "world powers" are losing that one as well.
Winning and losing is nebulous concept since ww2. The initial goal in Afghanistan was destroying al qaeda's base of operations and killing bin laden. All accomplished, so 'win'? The whole nation building was a nice idea, but who really cares about the goat farmers as long as they don't harbor terrorists.
As for Ukraine, please tell me how Russia thinks it's (still) winning, support does seem to be waning for Ukraine support. But Russia has lost almost double the amount of tanks the US has in service alone.
Even if they win, it will absolutely have been a pyrrhic victory that gutted their armed forces, ruined their economy, and made them dependent on China, Iran, and NK.
BTW, a US destroyer (with some airborne radar support) can defend a thousand km in each direction and low earth orbit.
Al Qaeda still exists. ISIS still exists. Taliban still exists.
Yea the 2 million dollar missles can take down a 5-15k drone. Hope you're bankrolling israel's genocide buddy. This defense is gonna be EXPENSIVE.
Russia will win if they hold out until American and EU support stops which (sadly) seems to be reaching a breaking point because funding a genocide seems more fun for the West than stopping one.
They said Russia ran out of everything two years ago. Now America is running out?
Is there a world? Yes. Are there certain countries that have the ability to project power globally? Yes. What part about this do you not understand?