The US Military Is 'Accidentally' Training Houthi Forces!

Right, so according the Houthis, the more the US attacks them, the stronger they are becoming, a thank you to Donald Trump for services rendered in helping to train the Ansarallah movement in a manner of speaking, having come from Houthi leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, who has framed the US war on Yemen - its not against he Houthis when they have no idea where the Houthis are, have little intelligence on Houthi locations are and even where they do know, are buried underground so as to make them untouchable via airstrike – as a useful training opportunity for his forces, strikes from whom on US warships and on Israel as the genocidal blue and white state continues to commit its atrocities in Gaza, will very much continue, the US not able to stop them. This has seemingly been ably demonstrated in recent days as once again the US targets Yemeni civilian infrastructure, targeting the poorest nation in the Middle East, as they have now been doing repeatedly for weeks and still changed nothing by doing so, as the Houthis continue their airstrikes on US shipping and Israel itself. Still, at least the Houthis have shown good manners and gratitude for the training their forces are getting at US hands.
Right, so the ongoing conflict between the United States and Yemen’s Ansarallah movement, more commonly known as the Houthis, has apparently taken something of a paradoxical turn, at least that’s they way Houthi leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi has put it, in that the more the US bombs Yemen, the stronger the Houthis become. In a recent speech, Al-Houthi framed American airstrikes as something of an unexpected gift, declaring that US aggression has allowed his forces to enhance their military capabilities, refine their tactics, contribute to their further development and rally greater domestic support. Far from crippling the Houthis, Washington’s relentless bombardment has only solidified their resistance even further, turning what was supposed to be a swift punitive campaign, in their heads at least and quite contrary to the previous experience of US aggression towards the Houthis, into something more along the lines of what was expected and predicted by more credible observers, that being a costly, unwinnable mess for US forces and a humiliation for Donald Trump.
The US launched its war on Yemen under the pretext of protecting Red Sea shipping from Houthi attacks—attacks that only began in response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and originally was only targeting Israeli shipping. The involvement of the US and UK got their shipping added to the list, but nobody’ else’s shipping was ever affected beyond the risk that was inherent in traversing waters where the US and the Houthis were taking pot shots at each other. The Houthis have made their position abundantly clear, time after time - they will continue blockading Israeli-linked vessels and striking Israeli targets for as long as Gaza is under siege by that state. If they leave, if they end their atrocities, the Houthis will end their attacks and that is the only thing that will end their attacks.
Yet rather than pressuring Israel to end its slaughter, the US has chosen to continue escalating militarily, bombing Yemeni cities, ports, and farms while failing to achieve any strategic objective. Worse still, American strikes have repeatedly hit civilian infrastructure, which has only driven increasing support for the Houthis amongst ordinary Yemenis and reinforcing the Houthis’ narrative that the US is not a neutral enforcer of maritime law but a violent enabler of genocide and that what they are doing is right and just.
Fundamentally, US strategy in Yemen is backfiring spectacularly. The Houthis are growing more capable, more defiant, and more influential with each American attack. Meanwhile, the financial and military costs to the US are unsustainable, and Washington’s desperation is becoming increasingly apparent—even to the point of censoring Houthi spokesmen on social media rather than addressing their arguments, which in and of itself is just hilarious. This US war on the Houthis is unwinnable, the rationale is hypocritical, and with war with Iran on the cards if Trump doesn’t get a deal done with them this weekend apparently, the only real outcome has been the unintentional strengthening of the very forces the US seeks to destroy and all for the sake of rogue state committing genocide.
So let’s look at this thank you America rhetoric coming from the Houthis first off.
"The more they challenge us, the more we advance our capabilities," has been the message sent out by Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, the Houthi head honcho, emphasising that US aggression has forced the Houthis to innovate, evolve and be challenged, making them a more effective fighting force, rather than one that is getting beaten. It is the ultimate smack talk against a US military supposedly the most powerful on Earth, yet for nigh on 18 months, the Houthis, without a navy, without the same resources, without the vast sums of money have gone toe to toe with the US and held them at bay, even driving them off at times.
Since the the start of American airstrikes, the Houthis have improved their missile and drone technology, striking deeper into Israeli territory and targeting US warships with greater precision. They have expanded their recruitment base, as Yemenis rally behind the resistance against foreign bombardment and they’ve gained regional and global prestige, positioning themselves as one of the few forces actively confronting both Israel and the US and doing so successfully to the point no amount of retaliation has had any discernible effect.
The US would have done well to consult its own history books on such things, because the lessons were already there. History shows that asymmetric warfare has a tendency to favour the defender. Just as the Vietnamese wore down the US on their soil, just as the Taliban outlasted Western forces in Afghanistan, again on their soil, the Houthis are now leveraging home advantage versus American aggression to harden their resistance and refine their tactics.
Meanwhile, the US is expending millions of dollars on seemingly a daily basis, certainly billions being blown in a matter of weeks as I’ve gone into previously in other videos, on airstrikes that do little more than destroy civilian infrastructure—farms, ports, and residential areas—because actual Houthi military sites are either well-hidden, mobile, or buried underground and as far as the war of words goes and the narratives carried by mainstream media, they ring hollow the more and more people become aware of what the Houthis are doing and why they are doing it.
The Pentagon has admitted it lacks sufficient intelligence to effectively degrade Houthi capabilities, meaning most strikes are speculative at best, indiscriminate at worst and the casualty rates as a result of US aggression speaks for itself, ten airstrikes by the US on the Yemeni capital of Sanaa yesterday for example, leaving dozens dead, not a Houthi between them though, because that isn’t where they are and all the US can do is unleash brain cell deficient attack dogs like Pete Hegseth, saying things are about to get even worse in Yemen, despite not knowing where their actual enemy is. How is the US conducting itself any better than Israel when it is attack after attack on civilians?
All this is collective punishment against a civilian population and there are plenty of other examples in recent days to back that up, other recent attacks having hit the port of Hodeidah, a critical lifeline for humanitarian aid as well as Yemeni trade. Agricultural land in Sanaa has been deliberately targeted, worsening Yemen’s already dire food crisis and of course there are all the strikes on residential neighbourhoods, killing civilians and further enraging the population, driving support for the Houthis up all the more.
These are not precision strikes on military targets, they are acts of desperation, collective punishment, war crimes revealing a Pentagon that has run out of ideas and is now resorting to the same appalling acts of depravity they consistently provide cover for Israel doing.
As the US attacks Yemen though, not only do the Houthis carry on striking Israel, but they of course retaliate against the US.
Once again in the last 24 hours, the Houthis have attacked the US aircraft carrier the USS Harry Truman, again reminding the US and sending the message that not only are you helping us to improve and get better and better the more you attack us, but we’re not afraid to take on your biggest military assets. The US response is to send another aircraft carrier, to which you can only imagine the Houthis will rise to the occasion and say challenge accepted.
If you want another way of looking at how Houthis forces have improved, just look at where they were when they first came to the aid of Gaza versus now. Back in November of 2023 when Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping began, that was as far as they could reach and they attacked shipping with rubber boats and cheap as they came drones and missiles. Now, not only can they reach as far afield with more advanced drones and hypersonic ballistic missiles as Israel and the Arabian Sea, they’ve developed naval tactics they never previously needed in order to counter not just commercial shipping, but those US warships and doing it all from hidden launch sites that remain by and large undetected and unreachable. 18 months and how far they’ve come, its no wonder they are making their appreciation for the favour US forces have done them is it?
Each US strike prompts a Houthi counter-escalation and still they have no effective answer to it, strikes on civilian areas driving more support to the Houthis and exposing more moral bankruptcy of western states jumping to Israel’s aid.
In fact it would now be fair to say the US are getting pretty desperate about all of this. In a story that is frankly as hilarious as it is completely believable, it seems Elon Musk’s Twitter has decided to suspend the account of Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree, he who has become the face of the Houthis in effect. But if you think that is where increasing support for the Houthis goals is coming from, you really have to wonder who is advising US officials, because this changes nothing except show how petulant the US government is, Musk himself intrinsically involved with the Trump administration.
This is not how a confident superpower behaves. It is the action of a frustrated child, picking up his ball and going home with it, one that is on the losing end of an argument and seeks to silence its opponents, but in the most futile and petulant manner going.
Whilst Saree might be gagged on Twitter though, the Houthis as a whole are still speaking out in all manner of ways and on all manner of platforms, having recently been calling out the mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli detention, so often without charge, they have slammed the forced closure of UNRWA schools, depriving Palestinian children of education and have called out Israel’s expansionist "Greater Israel" ambitions in Syria and beyond to their faces, saying this is what is happening, this is what the West is enabling, we’re calling it out, what are you going to do about it?
The US war on Yemen is a strategic, moral, and financial disaster for them and the Houthis are absolutely right when they say the US won’t win. It has consistently failed to stop Houthi attacks on Israel in solidarity with Gaza, they have by the Houthis own words strengthened their military and political standing. The US have killed civilians and worsened humanitarian suffering in Yemen, yet the support for the Houthis is still there, because this is a matter of faith and righteousness, instead of economic or military advantage and what will be harming the US most is the fact this is costing them billions with no end in sight, nor any discernible success to point to.
The solution for the US is as simple as it is costless: Stop bombing Yemen and pressure Israel to end the Gaza genocide. Give up the Trump dream of owning Gaza and recognize that the Houthis cannot be defeated militarily. Numerous states including the US have failed at this before, they will fail again now.
Until then, the US will keep sinking resources into an unwinnable war—while the Houthis keep thanking them for the free training.
Speaking of which the innovation of the Houthis just keeps growing, having now managed to render US airstrikes even more futile and useless than they were originally. How have they done that without much of an air force of their own to speak of? Well check out this video recommendation as your suggested next watch to find out more. Please do hit like, share and subscribe if you haven’t done so already so as to ensure you don’t miss out on all new daily content as well as supporting the channel at the same time 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.