MASSIVE Military Failure in Yemen Costs US BILLIONS!

Right, so the Houthis of Yemen have continued to strike Israel, continued to strike US warships and all despite attacks being launched against them and do note I mean against them and not on them since Trump has had more success at striking innocent civilians celebrating Eid than any Houthis, not that he cheered it any less loudly. Heck if he was any more delighted he might tariff those penguins again and in his brain he might think he has to before long because for as much as he thinks the US might be winning against the Houthis, the truth is a long way from that.
The truth is that in 3 weeks, the US has spent almost $1bn fighting the Houthis and have achieved nothing. The strikes from the Houthis continue, their significant arsenals remain largely unfound and those that have been have often been more reinforced than originally thought.
Not only is the cost of fighting the Houthis enormously unsustainable though, the US arsenal in its most cutting edge weapons is being depleted, so should arms be needed elsewhere, for example there is a threat by China against Taiwan at the moment, they will have increasingly less and less to retaliate with as Trump repeats the mistake of the past of trying to take out the Houthis with warfare – it never worked before and it isn’t working now.
Right, so it has now been reported that the United States has almost $1 billion in just three weeks bombing Yemen in a desperate attempt to stop Houthi attacks on Israel and US warships—yet the campaign has achieved almost nothing. Despite relentless airstrikes, the Houthis, as they are best known, Ansarallah, to give them their proper name, have not been deterred, their military capabilities remain largely intact, and their attacks in solidarity with Gaza have only reinforced that, very much continuing as they have. Worse still, the US is expending precious munitions, losing high-value drones, and killing civilians—all while defending Israel’s genocide in Gaza, which is itself funded and armed by Washington for the most part as we all know.
So all these weeks of striking the Houthis has not just been a military failure, it has also need an extortionately expensive strategic disaster. What could that $1bn have been better spent on, especially as tariffs bite on basically every single import into the US now for ordinary American consumers. The Trump administration, has poured vast resources into a campaign that has no clear objective, was so arrogant they didn’t think they’d have to, the Houthis always underestimated even now, despite 18 months of backing Gaza to significant effect, no viable exit strategy either except to give up, go home and take the expense of it all on the chin, and no measurable success. Meanwhile, the Houthis continue to shoot down US drones, strike Israeli targets, and humiliate American propaganda efforts with their resilience.
Since the US launched its latest round of strikes shortlyu before the end of the Gaza ceasefire, in response basically as it was to a Houthi ultimatum to Israel to let aid into Gaza, which they haven’t done, the Gaza Strip having been starved of resources now for a month, it has burned through $1 billion in missiles, jet fuel, and intelligence operations—yet the Houthis remain undefeated and defiant. US officials have privately admitted that the strikes have had "minimal success" in degrading Houthi capabilities and the stats are there to back up these reported failures.
Houthi arsenals remain well stocked, with reports suggesting they have far more by way of weapons caches than the US has found and those that have been found have been more heavily reinforced and taken more strikes to take out than had been planned for.
Of particular concern to the US is the amount of advanced US munitions that are being depleted, with no clear plan for long-term sustainability. A quote from The Cradle on this matter reading:
‘Launched on 15 March, the offensive has relied on costly precision munitions like Tomahawk missiles, JASSMs, JSOWs, B-2 bombers from Diego Garcia, and additional aircraft carriers and fighter jets. Despite this, the YAF continues to launch ballistic and cruise missiles and drones, including downing at least 17 US MQ-9 advanced drones – each carrying a price tag of $30 million.
Pentagon officials acknowledge that while some of the Yemeni leadership and military sites have been targeted, the nation retains significant weapons stockpiles and fortified bunkers. One source noted Yemen's continued ability to strike Red Sea shipping and evade damage.
They've taken out some sites, but that hasn't affected the Houthis' ability to continue shooting at ships in the Red Sea or shooting down US drones," said one of the sources briefed on the operation. "Meanwhile, we are burning through readiness—munitions, fuel, deployment time.’
And of greater concern and damning the US most of all in view has been the fact that aside from the odd Houthi cache being found, civilian areas are being bombed because the US doesn’t know where Houthi leaders are, leading to indiscriminate killings that only fuel Yemeni anger and support for the Houthis themselves.
Adding to the grotesque spectacle, and I do mean grotesque, Donald Trump released a video on his Truth Social account gleefully boasting about US strikes on the Houthis, the clip he posted however being one of civilians gathered for Eid celebrations being slaughtered.
They will never sink our ships again! He said. Well these people never were. They were innocent Yemenis and you deliberately targeted them and cheered it. Absolute sociopath.
It’s interesting that he mentioned they won’t be sinking any more ships though, because the Houthis haven’t have they? At least not US warships, or at least that’s what the US have claimed isn’t it? Its been rumoured, heavily denied, but has Trump believed the hype or did he let slip something we don’t know?
It's not the only questionable bit of propaganda being put out at the moment either. Mainstream media sources have been making the claim that the US has been making more progress against the Houthis than US politicians are evidently claiming, having floated a story, which several publications have done their own versions of, claiming Iran are pulling out of Yemen, because the US is winning there. So when were Iran ever in Yemen then? Surely we’d have had reports of Iranian deaths in Yemen if that were the case? We’d have had threats from Iran against US and UK forces to not strike their people there, but theres been none of that and nobody has laughed harder at this story than the Houthis themselves—its very difficult for people to leave Yemen when they were never there in the first place.
The truth is that while the US spends billions, the Houthis keep hitting back harder:
Aside from those 17 MQ-9 Reaper drones aforementioned that have been brought down since US-Houthi conflict began, three being blown out of the sky just this week, bringing total losses to $90 million worth of drones this week alone, a significant chunk of that US $1bn waste.
Just this morning there was a ballistic missile strike on a supply ship to the USS Harry S Truman, meaning not only are the Houthis taking out US ordnance or being left largely unimpeded when deployed against them, but they can make the supply chain problems the US already have, even worse by taking on their supply routes too, showing significant vulnerabilities in US military logistics in the Red Sea.
And of course Houthis attacks have carried on this week, an attack on Israeli military site in Tel Aviv demonstrating not only can they deal with the US attacks and respond to them, but can carry on with their long range strikes on Israel at the same time.
Each US strike, each line of propaganda, each false claim, strengthens Houthi resolve, while draining American resources and the Trump administration is going to find this harder and harder to justify amidst all these failings.
One way we know the US does this though, is to claim its strikes are to "secure Red Sea shipping"—yet commercial traffic has plummeted because insurers see the Red Sea as safe and are preferring to incur the greater costs of going around Africa instead. Besides which, the Houthis had only pledged to target Israel-linked ships and hadn’t actually enacted any of that, before Trump ordered airstrikes on Yemen, so any such claims as this should fall on deaf ears, the only reason the US took up arms against the Houthis again, after they downed tools during the Gaza ceasefire, was to defendIsrael’s genocide in Gaza and supporting its continuation.
Therefore this military waste can be thought of in completely alternative but far more honest terms. The US is spending $1billion every three weeks to protect Israel whilst they block food aid to Gaza.
The US is wasting money, lives, and credibility in Yemen—for no gain. The Houthis cannot be bombed into submission, it has been tried before, it has always failed and every civilian death brings more support to their cause.
Nothing here whatsoever shines any positivity or light on what the US and others aiding them like the UK are doing.
The US is defending a genocide—spending billions fighting the Houthis to shield Israel while Gaza starves.
The strikes are ineffective—Houthi capabilities remain strong, US stocks are depleting and at some point reality will have to bite even for the muppets in Trumps regime. There is no strategy, there is no victory, the only solution is to stop the bombing, end the Gaza genocide, get Israel out of Gaza and the Houthis will stop. There is no other solution, but how much more public money the US will blow before being forced into this realisation remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, where the stories of US ships being sunk by the Houthis are back in conversation, crippling them they absolute can and have done and it shows the Houthis have identified another crippling vulnerability in the US naval forces too. Get all the details of that story in this video recommendation here as your suggested next watch. Please do also hit like, share and subscribe if you haven’t done so already, so as to ensure you don’t miss out on all new content published daily as well as supporting the channel which is very much appreciated, holding power to account for ordinary working class people and I will hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.