A Coalition of the Unwilling Fails to Coalesce
A Coalition of the Unwilling Fails to Coalesce
While the shippers pass a no confidence motion in their state funded protection racket
[CMF/Operation , by YesXorNo]
Published: 2023-12-24
The Blockade of Gaza Israel
Anṣār Allāh (the armed Yemeni independence movement labelled in the west as the Houtis) have continued their compliance with the Genocide Convention by moving from shooting ineffective missiles up the Red Sea at Israel to giving Israel a little of its own medicine.
Israel's imposition of a blockade on Gaza since 2006 has been a 15 year long policy of collective punishment to which the world has paid only limited attention. Anṣār Allāh's version, attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea bound for Israel, immediately received significant attention from the US of A.
The US asked 39 nations to "send a warship to the Red Sea" to essentially act as a coallition of the willing against whatever the US thinks needs attacking. The US mechanism was to use an existing program run out of their base in Bahrain which has been combating piracy in the region, and turn that into a international naval attack fleet under US command.
The uniform response was, anti-piracy sure, attack fleet under your command, fuck off!
[The votes are in on converting the CMF into Operation Prosperity Guardian with non-US warships.]
The responses were so underwhelming that Reuters had to re-title their article on it from "U.S. Red Sea taskforce gets limited backing from some allies" to a watered down version of a "What you need to know" article with "What is U.S.-led Red Sea coalition and which countries are backing it?".
But, nobody sent the memo of the re-titling to republisher MSM which left the limited re-titling effort short of an ally.
Having achieved 1 warship, US Sec. Defence Austin proudly declared that "more that 20 countries had agreed" to participate in the attempt to convert a state funded business protection racket into an attack fleet.
Participating in the "communications mangement" approach to informing the public, Australia's Minister of Defense responded that the nation had "almost tripled" its participation in the existing operation, which amounted to increasing the number of military desk jobs in Bahrain from 6 to a whopping 16 and the number of ships from 0 to 0. Of course, the Australian opposition party declared the government lilly livered cowards, because international policy is a plaything to the scare mongering racists. The Australian Liberal/National opposition recently delcared their racisim in their No campaign to referendum on Australia's First Peoples being acknowledged in the nation's Constitution).
From State Funded Protection to Failed Attack Fleet
The US attempt to funnel even more cash to its military industrial complex was denied by various vassals as Yemen analyst Hannah Porter described the Anṣār Allāh missiles as not a threat but a "propaganda move". But, some of the beneficiaries of the state funded insurance scheme known as Operation Prosperity Guardian began re-routing their ships around the Cape of Good Hope for they obviously have no hope in the US's ability to combat the threat or put out the odd fire on a ship.
The threat from Anṣār Allāh could have been neutralized by supporting a ceasefire in Gaza, but the US has vetoed one vote and stayed the course by ensuring no ceasefire language is included in follow up resolutions to the UN Security Council. While the US is preserving the threat and responding with a call for an attack fleet, which amounts to even more funds for their funders, the shippers are passing the cost onto the consumer so that they essentially pay twice.
The US Secretary of Defence's call for a coalition of the willing amounted to a nothing-burger of the unwilling. While its obvious who is paying the bills, one is left wondering who is running the propagana operation?
So, three cheers for the brave vassals who chose to thumb their noses at ex-Raytheon leader Austin's call for warships (excepting ever compliant Britain). And boo-hoo to the international shipping and oil cartels for not being grateful for the ineffective US protection racket!
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Sources
Australia to send small personnel deployment but no warship to Red Sea [Australia declines US request for Red Sea warship, sending personnel instead], Matthew Doran, ABC News, 2023-12-21
U.S. Red Sea taskforce gets limited backing from some allies [aka What is U.S.-led Red Sea coalition and which countries are backing it?], no author, Reuters, 2023-12-21
US military operation in the Red Sea sparks tensions between Madrid and Washington, Miguel González, El Pais, 2023-12-23
Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), the public relations '.com' site
Combined Maritime Forces, US Navy
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