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| Yemen has the ultimate weapon | |||
| 2024-02-07 | |||
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Sergey Savchuk [RIA] After the outbreak of large-scale hostilities on the territory of Ukraine, many hoped that the rumbling thousand-kilometer contact line would become an object lesson and a fuse for other hotheads. But then red poured over the edge from the Palestinian-Israeli cauldron, and then the Yemeni Houthis got into an all-out dance with sabers, which is why it became very crowded in the area of ​​the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip has been going on for almost six months
In attempts to explain this phenomenon, a forest of copies has already been broken and tons of theories have been put forward. The consistently degrading foreign policy of the United States, the shameful flight from Afghanistan, and the obvious inability to solve problems by force even in a confrontation with a much inferior army are cited as limiting factors. All this is true, and much more can be added here, but today I would like to talk about another little-known but important factor. The other day, foreign publications were full of publications saying that the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea are not only maritime logistics gates for the transshipment of goods and resources from Asia to Europe. Powerful cables snake along the seabed here, allowing for the exchange of information and business transactions worth multiples of the value of the goods in the holds of the ships passing above them. Below is a purely reference list of the largest cable routes that go around Yemen in the water column and go north. IMEWE (India - Middle East - Western Europe) is a 12 thousand kilometers long canal that connects Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, India, Egypt with Italy and France. Bandwidth 3.8 terabits per second. FEA (FLAG Europe - Asia) is a line 28 thousand kilometers long, which, like a thread, connects Japan, South Korea, China, Thailand, India, UAE, Italy, Spain and ends in the UK. Launched in 1997 and valued at a third of a billion dollars. Middle East North Africa (MENA) submarine cable route. One of the most recent, launched in 2014, has a length of just under nine thousand kilometers and ensures data exchange between Karachi, Mumbai and Sicily at a speed of 5.7 terabits per second. There are also 15 thousand kilometers of the Europe India Gateway (EIG). It provides connectivity between the UAE, Oman, India, Libya, France, Portugal, and the end point is the City of London. Fiber optic route using the 2+2 system, 16 telecommunications clusters worth more than $700 million. In 1999, one of the largest and longest submarine cables, SeaMeWe-3, was launched. A breathtaking 39 thousand kilometers and a state necklace in the form of Japan, Australia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, Portugal and Germany. Nearby is the twin brother SeaMeWe-4, which also includes Myanmar and Malaysia. These are only the largest, fastest and most expensive cables. And there is also G2A (Gulf2Africa) for communication between Oman and Somalia. RAMAN connecting Jordan, Oman and India. Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Iran use the Falcon cable bridge. The last one built is AAE-1 (Asia Africa Europe - 1), thanks to which millions of banking transactions are carried out between the Old World and the countries of continental Asia. And many others. Those who are interested can look for information on their own to understand the scale. To visualize and understand the motivations for geopolitical actions, it will be useful to look at the map, namely at the layout of the notorious cables. It is quite interesting, if only because disparate bundles and routes converge into a single data center in Djibouti. By a strange coincidence, it is here that the largest US naval base in the region has long been deployed, namely Camp Lemonnier - a permanent home for more than five thousand soldiers and officers. Their presence here and ensuring reliable uninterrupted operation of the telecommunications hub is critically important for dozens of countries included in the top twenty economies of the planet. And this is one of the thin but extremely strong threads that wraps around the throat of Europe and some Asian countries - Washington expressively tugs on it on occasion. After all, modern telecom is not about watching clips on your phone or playing tanks on the Network: modern digital communication technologies provide billions of financial transactions amounting to trillions of dollars a year, and the breakdown of two or three channels can lead not to the bankruptcy of individual companies, but to collapse entire state economies. But, as often happens, this game can be played together. Of the listed cable bridges, at least four extend into Yemen itself, and the physical route of the rest is no secret to the local military. There are doubts that the Houthis have the equipment and tools to carry out underwater sabotage, but the Iranians definitely have all this, experiencing severe heartburn from the sight of the American flag. Two years ago, when the Nord Stream terrorist attack took place, Vladimir Putin warned the Western community that this explosion had opened the lid of the proverbial Pandora's box. Because from now on, all critical underwater infrastructure, be it an oil pipeline or a fiber optic cable, becomes a legitimate target in a game without rules. And if three gas pipes exploded at the bottom of the Baltic for unknown reasons, then who can guarantee that one day, somewhere in the El-Mukalla area, a dozen or so telecommunication lines will not accidentally rub against the rocks. At that moment, this statement was taken most seriously by the British, who urgently sent warships with divers to check the underwater engineering infrastructure. The main reason for the most shameful failures of the United States in recent years has been butting heads with countries that are guaranteed to go to the end. This was the case with North Korea, where two aircraft carrier groups aimlessly descended; the Afghan Taliban turned out to be no less stubborn. Judging by the Pentagon's obvious reluctance to get involved in a direct war in the region, Washington and London came to the conclusion that in the event of a critical situation, the crabs of the Gulf of Aden could have very sharp claws. | |||
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 I miss the days of a North & South Yemen. I've never had their honey, though. It's supposed to be pretty good. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-02-07 22:28 |
| #5 Houthis are an easy demonstration project not to fuck with us. Except, Biden & Blinken & Obama |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-02-07 20:31 |
| #4 Yemen has nothing. Not even Wolfowitz would want to invade them. Just blockade everything but food and meds. Sink all their bass boats. Eventually, they will be down to trebuchets and slings. The shipping lanes will be safe. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-02-07 19:44 |
| #3 ^ All about making the abominable palatable. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-07 07:15 |
| #2 The psychotic "laws of war" enforced by the degenerate western "elites", which give an advantage to murderous sevages? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-07 00:46 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-02-07 00:14 |