Donald Trump won’t even be sworn in as the 47th president for another two months and the world is already a safer place. When word of Trump’s smashing re-election victory spread around the world, the effects were immediate. The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have been harrying the shipping lanes in the Red Sea for months now, called for an immediate ceasefire when they learned that Big Orange will soon be back in charge.
The Houthis have been launching missile and drone strikes on commercial and naval vessels for over a year. They’ve launched 80 attacks on commercial vessels since October 2023. They managed to sink two container ships and killed four sailors.
When Joe Biden unfroze billions of dollars in funds for Iran through an executive order, the terrorism-sponsoring mullahs immediately flooded the Houthis with cash and weaponry. Under the weakness of the Biden-Harris regime, US Navy warships have been chased out of the Red Sea by the Houthis—who are landlocked rebels. They’re not even an actual nation-state, let alone a superpower.
The leadership of the Houthis obviously seems to remember what happened to ISIS during President Trump’s first term. ISIS got smashed like a bug on a windshield when they encountered Donald Trump’s FAFO approach to foreign policy.
A Houthi spokesman announced the day after the election, “Our operations in international waters were purely defensive, and we announce their final cessation.”
The Iranians, who are financing the Houthi attacks on international shipping, also remember that America is not to be trifled with when Donald Trump is running things. They remember their general who got fricasseed by a ninja-sword drone while he was sitting in traffic. They don’t want to see any repeats of that, so they’re already calling their dogs off.
