US Push For Houthi Ground Invasion BACKFIRES Spectacularly!

Right, so since Israel’s wrecking of the Gaza ceasefire, the United States and its allies have waged a relentless but ultimately pretty futile campaign against Yemen’s Ansarallah movement, the Houthis, pouring billions into airstrikes and naval blockades—only to be outmanoeuvred at every single turn by a far less well armed, far less powerful force who are despite that, tactically far more clever. The Houthis have been utterly undeterred by all this apparent Western military might and have instead retaliated with precision, striking US warships, downing advanced drones, and making multiple strikes on Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport. Now however, having faced humiliation at sea and in the air, the US is plotting an even more desperate escalation - a ground invasion of Yemen, which will apparently be spearheaded by UAE-backed militias still holding out in Yemen since the end of the war with Saudi Arabia and tacitly supported by the Saudi’s at that, the UAE essentially a puppet government of the House of Saud anyway.
This strategy is not only reckless and pointless and all for the benefit of Israel and none for anyone else, but it is doomed to fail. The Houthis have spent nearly a decade defeating Saudi Arabia and the UAE in a brutal war which the US also took part in, and nothing that has happened since, especially since the Gaza genocide began implies otherwise. Worse still, Washington’s actions have exposed the hypocrisy of its allies. Saudi Arabia, while publicly hesitant to join a full-scale ground offensive, has already launched airstrikes on Yemen, even as its officials meet with Iran at the same time to strengthen ties there. Meanwhile, the US is bribing Riyadh with promises of a civilian nuclear program—a privilege they are arguing the toss over with Iran, again all for Israel’s sake—in exchange for cooperation in crushing the Houthis resistance.
The stakes could not be higher. A US-backed ground invasion risks reigniting a catastrophic regional war, now potentially spreading across the Arabian peninsula, further destabilising the Middle East, and deepening the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, itself triggered by the last war on them—all to protect Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Yet despite all the machinations happening around them, the Houthis remain ever defiant.
Right, so since the collapse of the Gaza ceasefire at Israel’s hands, the US and UK have launched over 900 airstrikes on Yemen, targeting what they hope are Houthi military sites, but that have mostly targeted civilian infrastructure and port facilities. The goal was simple, or so the West thought - degrade the Houthis’ ability to attack Israel-bound ships and US warships in the Red Sea, but time after time it has been proven to be and abject failure on all fronts as the Houthis just keep coming back swinging, for US warships and Israeli targets, notably Tel Aviv, most often since the ceasefire, Ben Gurion airport. The results in short have been expensively and militarily disastrous for Washington.
For all these strikes on Yemen, the Houthis always retaliate. They have carried out 78 drone and missile strikes against US and British naval vessels, including the USS Harry Truman and the newly arrived USS Carl Vinson now, along with their support craft. Even more devastating has been their success in downing now 21 MQ-9 Reaper drones, each costing the US $33 million. The latest two of these brought down within 24 hours of each other, just adding to the staggering financial and strategic loss for the Pentagon.
The Houthis have also expanded their reach beyond the Red Sea. In retaliation for US strikes on the port of Hodeidah, the most recent of which has been the most devastating strike on Yemen since Houthi retaliation against Israel in support of Palestine began, which has killed 80 people and wounded 150—they launched missiles at Ben Gurion Airport, demonstrating their ability to strike deep inside Israel and keep doing so even in the face of such horrendous and depraved act against them and the innocent people of Yemen. Each escalation by the US just keeps exposing the futility of what they’re doing, to no benefit to the US itself, because bombing Yemen only strengthens Houthi resolve and their strike on Israel will continue for as long as they keep committing genocide in Gaza.
Unable to defeat the Houthis from the sea or the air, military assets buried deep if the US can even find them, lacking intelligence on Houthi positions as they so often do, the US is now preparing for a ground offensive, part of the reason Hodeidah was attacked to the degree it was, aiming to seize the port, which is seen as a vital lifeline for humanitarian aid for the people of Yemen, which it is, but having looked at Gaza, since when have US and UK forces really given a stuff about aid being blockaded to those who need it? But the port is also seen as a key Houthi target, a place they receive arms shipments from Iran and these coastal areas are where the Houthis are believed to target shipping from most of all.
The plan for Hodeidah involves UAE-backed militias and remnants of Saudi-aligned forces still operating in Yemen since the 2022 ceasefire. The objective being to take control of the port, cut off Houthi supply lines from Iran and push them away from the coast, where they have harassed US and Israeli-linked shipping.
But this plan ignores all the lessons of recent history. From 2015 to 2022, a Saudi- and UAE-led coalition—armed and supported by the US—waged a brutal war on Yemen, only to be humiliated by the Houthis. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi suffered heavy losses, with the Houthis repeatedly striking Saudi oil facilities and even UAE cities with drones and missiles. The war ended not with a Saudi victory but with a negotiated truce that left the Houthis in control of much of Yemen.
Now, the US wants to revive this failed strategy, betting that a proxy ground force can succeed where direct Saudi and Emirati intervention could not. But the Houthis are far stronger today, with more advanced missiles, drones, that they very much claim to be developing themselves these days, so not supplied by Iran if true and years of combat experience fighting these same forces, who have been persisting in the desert as the Houthis technology has advanced. A ground invasion would likely devolve into a bloody quagmire, I can’t see the Houthis being beaten, but almost certainly with more innocent civilians paying the price, but a price the West seems prepared to pay.
The most glaring contradiction in this US-led scheme though is the role of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Saudi Arabia have publicly denied plans to join a ground invasion, yet Saudi warplanes have already bombed Yemeni border areas following those US airstrikes on Hodeidah. At the same time though, Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman was meeting with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a historic Tehran visit, signalling Riyadh’s attempts to balance relations with both Washington and Tehran, with the Ayatollah apparently saying the nations of the Middle East should be sticking together.
Such it seems are the multiple faces of the House of Saud. Saudi Arabia knows that openly joining a US-Israeli war on Yemen would torpedo its diplomatic thaw with Iran—a relationship it has carefully rebuilt since 2023 when China mediated between the two states and got them talking again. Worse still, siding with Israel against the Houthis—who frame their struggle as a defence of Palestine—would be a political disaster in the Arab world, where support for Gaza remains overwhelming. That said, Saudi leader Mohamed bin-Salman has said before he cares nothing for the plight of the Palestinian people because it is not his war, but that his people do care and he has to be mindful of that. He is a charmer that guy.
But then there comes another facet to this, with the US apparently now trying to bribe Saudi Arabia into compliance with them and with israel, who it should be noted Saudi Arabia to this day do not recognise, have not normalised ties with, offering the Saudis a civilian nuclear program—which of course at the same time is something being vehemently denied to Iran as the US and Israel press for the end of their program, all despite international nuclear watchdogs saying there is no nuclear weapon being developed by Iran it is all peaceful and in fact as I covered the other day, Iran has recently made sever key breakthroughs in the field of nuclear medicine and the fight against cancer, such is the nature of some of their program. This double standard underscores the hypocrisy of US policy: while Iran faces threats of military strikes over its nuclear activities, Saudi Arabia is being rewarded potentially with a nuclear opportunity, for aiding Israel’s genocide by taking on the Houthis for the US, but will they? Do the US or Iranian ties matter more to the Saudis right now?
The US and its allies have tried to frame their war on Yemen as a necessary response to Houthi “aggression.” But the reality is that every Houthi strike has been retaliation—first for Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, then for US and British bombings. The recent massacre in Hodeidah, where US strikes killed dozens of civilians, was met with an immediate Houthi response: missiles on Tel Aviv and US warships.
The Houthis have made their position clear: they will not back down. Their leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, has repeatedly stated that their operations will continue until Israel’s siege on Gaza ends. Unlike Arab governments that have normalised ties with Israel while Palestinians die, the Houthis have put their words into action—costing the US billions and exposing the limits of Western military dominance.
And so now we’re looking at the US throwing more bad money after bad, stumbling into a conflict it cannot win. The Houthis have already defeated Saudi Arabia and the UAE once before, they will not be crushed by a half-hearted US proxy invasion when they’ve grown even stronger in the intervening years. Every bomb dropped on Yemen strengthens their legitimacy, every drone shot down emboldens their resistance, and every civilian killed fuels their cause.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s hesitation and both sidesery – is that a word? reveal the cracks in Washington’s Middle Eastern ties outside of Israel. The Houthis stand with Palestine, while the US, Israel, and their allies stand on the wrong side of history.
If the US proceeds with a ground invasion, it will just trigger another Middle Eastern war, more regional chaos, and further proof that Western imperialism can be defeated by determined resistance. The Houthis have outsmarted the US at every turn, I can’t see this being any different, but if you have another theory tell me all about it in the comments below.
Meanwhile that war bill fighting the Houthis just keeps ratcheting up, the sums of money in public cash being blown fighting them and getting nowhere is eye-watering and the bill in those MQ-9 reaper drones on their own has passed half a billion dollars and has only grown since in the last few days. Check out the economic disaster fighting the Houthis is bringing to the US as their futility in fighting Yemen continues in this video recommendation here as your suggested next watch. Please do also hit like, share and subscribe if you haven’t already done so, so as to make sure you don’t miss out on all new daily content and help support 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.