The strategic expert, Major General Muhammad Abdul Wahed, considered that the West did not fail in confronting the Houthis, but it wants to be present and control the Mandab Corridor, the best and most important in the world after Malaga and Hormuz.

Major General Abdul Wahed said: “12% of the volume of global trade passes through the Mandab, and a large portion of oil passes through it to Europe, and therefore the conflict is a geopolitical conflict between the United States of America and the West against China and Russia.”

He pointed out the existence of strategic motives due to which the West sent American forces despite the refusal of many countries to enter this alliance, including Western countries, and he undertook another mission to be present in the region despite the possibility of merging this mission with the “Atlanta” mission to combat piracy, which is present in the region.< /p>

Rules of Engagement

The expert stated that this solution was not resorted to because the West only wants to exist, and that it has rules of engagement with the Houthis, perhaps in agreement with Iran, and there are red lines that the two parties have not crossed.

Abdul Wahid considered that if the West wanted to launch painful strikes, it would have struck elements in the Houthi leadership, but he knows full well that striking the leaders is a red line, and the Houthis also know full well that there are red lines for striking Western targets, such as hitting American warships.

New rules imposed by Iran

The expert considered that “there are rules of engagement and everyone maintains them, but what is strange is that Iran imposed new rules of engagement in the battle and moved the conflict from the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf to the Red Sea and the Strait of Bab al-Mandab. This is intelligence, and it fights through its armed arms.”

Separating the conflict from the Gaza issue

Major General Abdul Wahed also spoke about the West’s success in separating the conflict in the Red Sea from the main issue and its causes, which is the Gaza issue, but with his fear of the development of the crisis and that China and Russia can support the Houthis, especially with anti-aircraft missiles and drones, in very large numbers, as he put it. The expert.

Abdul Wahid considered that the conflict in the Red Sea is the most dangerous of all and also more dangerous than the front in Gaza because it may develop into a major international war, and this will constitute a danger because the European presence in the region is harassing the Chinese trade movement there and that China will not stand idly by.< /p>

He concluded: “The European mission mandate in the region also includes the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Strait of Hormuz, and this is very dangerous and portends an international conflict.”