Pay wall, but there is enough to get the gist. America is well equipped for naval warfare, pax americana and the allies are being challenged, not on the high seas, but in the smaller ones and littoral areas, commerce choke points. If anybody started cutting cables they will be sunk on site. Navies are supposed to protect commerce, undersea cables too, but whose commerce are they protecting in the red sea, mostly China's trade with Europe would be my guess and oil trade to China. If not for European trade and industry we should have little interest, Egypt should be interested though, they get a lot of revenue from the Suez canal, support them and others with a vital interest in keeping it open.
With EVs, renewable energy and especially onshoring manufacturing and other industries, I suspect this area of the world will have diminishing vital interest to America and Europe, though their Asian trade will continue through the area. In his own way Joe is diminishing the importance of global trade and there will be less need for overseas military bases or presence, if fewer interests are at stake. At one point America or Americans owned a lot of the world and are now down to 25%, so not so much is required to protect global interests and the investments of the 1%. Like the British, the navy was not required when the empire was no more.
The war against the Houthis is part of an escalating struggle for the seas
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