I have found
all that is happening in the Middle East interesting. There is what is
happening, and then there is the framework through which you view what is
happening. For some of my fellow Christian the rise up of war in the Middle
East is the first rumblings of the final tribulation and the immanent return of
Christ. For others, it is just a flare up of antisemitism taking the
opportunity to lash out at “innocent” Israel in whatever way it can. To still
others, it’s just another Friday, that is, they have seen so much conflict in
the Middle East that this conflict barely even registers on their list of cares
or interests, at least until it causes them to pay more for fuel. When that
happens then they are interested, moderately. Different people are looking at
this all very differently.
But I think
we are seeing more and more of the signs that the American Empire is in its
last days. Of course, this line of thinking is not unique to me in the
slightest, many have written about it. Vox Day himself has seen this day coming
for a least a decade before many of us were aware of the trends. But many
others are writing about it as well.
What we
appear to see happening is America is being taken down by “a death of a
thousand cuts.” Since the withdrawal from Afghanistan two years ago we have
seen the flare up in Ukraine, all sorts of low level conflicts and government
change overs in Africa, then the war Israel, and now this war in Israel is spreading
to Yemen and into one of the world’s most important shipping lanes. Chaos
appears to be increasing across the world.
In all of
these conflicts the will of the United States has either been thwarted, or
directly challenged. In Israel, for example, the United States has had what
appears to be very little success in curbing the extent of Israel’s operations
in Gaza, even though this war could have detrimental effects for the US
presence in the region. In Ukraine, the backing of the United States only
ensured that far more Ukrainian men died than was ever necessary. Without the
US, Ukraine would have backed down a long time ago, it probably never would
have even be brash enough to keep bombing in the Donbass, which is what precipitated
the current war. In Africa several western friendly governments have been
replaced. None of these events on their own is enough to topple an empire like
the United States, but put together they show the trend towards decline is
heating up. America’s ability to enforce its will is waning, and now it is
being challenged on its ability to maintain order in the Gulf of Aden,
“THE leader of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels has vowed to
target American warships if President Biden orders missile strikes against its
forces.
Militant leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi also warned that US
troops will face a warzone "harsher than Vietnam" if they dare step
foot in Yemen.
Rebel chief al-Houthi said today: "We will not stand
idly by if the Americans are tempted to escalate further and commit foolishness
by targeting our country or waging war against it."
He continued in a televised speech: "Any American
targeting of our country will be targeted by us.
"We will make American battleships, interests, and
navigation a target for our missiles, drones, and military operations."
It appears to be a direct response to claims that US
President Joe Biden is drawing up plans to strike Houthi sites to put an end to
the erupting chaos in the Red Sea.
Biden has moved the Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier to
the Gulf of Aden, just off the coast of Yemen as he draws up plans to intervene
directly against the group.
Yesterday, the US announced a naval task force of 10
countries - "Operation Prosperity Guardian" - which intends to gather
a fleet of warships to restore order to the region.”[1]
From what I
understand responding to attacks like this on international shipping lanes is
one of the legitimate reasons for using military force against a nation like
Yemen. But that begs the point, it matters not whether it is legitimate for the
United States to respond, what matters is that the United States is being
challenged in this way in the region. The US is obviously not as feared as it
once was. Which means its ability to maintain order, or as the Chinese would
say, maintain the ‘Mandate of Heaven’, is vanishing.
The American
government and its leaders only have themselves to blame for this, because they
have lost so many wars in this region and weakened themselves so thoroughly,
that it is becoming clearer to more and more people around the world that the
United States is weak and vulnerable. It is likely that the enemies of the US see
this more clearly than the rest of us. The rise of the economic challenges from
Russia and China, and the Brics nations is showing that the US is weak on the
economic front. The inability for the US to achieve its will of forcing Russia
to backdown in Ukraine shows that militarily they are not to be feared as they
once were. Blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. The empire is
teetering, and now an already over extended American military and navy has to
deal with another threat to its ability to establish order.
It has been
interesting to see in the Australian media this last week conservatives
criticising the left leaning Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for not sending a warship to the Middle East[2] to join up with the American
coalition. The conservative media establishment in Australia is as about neo-conservative
as you can get. There is not a war they don’t want to be in. But I wonder if
their increasingly shrill comments about China, and Russia, and other issues
like this, come from a deep-seated understanding of what is happening? Are they
cognizant of the fast decline of the US and are they pushing more and more for
conflict, to try and reassert some semblance of power? One has to wonder.
Either way,
when Russia started to succeed in Ukraine it was obvious to some of us that
other nations would follow suit and assert themselves on the world stage for
their own interests. The attacks in Israel show that Hamas has likely been emboldened by a weakened America. Yemen looks
to have come to the same conclusion. I think this trend will continue. We will
see more and more American satrapies move away from direct support of America
and more and more direct enemies or challengers take this opportunity to assert
their will in the world. The days of the pax-America are now behind us, or at
least they nearly are. We are now in the intermediate phase between the
unipolar world empire of the United States, and the rising multipolar world.
We are in
World War 3. This does not mean that this war will look like what the first two
did. It simply means that the world powers are colliding, through their proxies
and the world order is in the process of change. Hang on to your hats everyone.
The ride is very likely to get more intense from here on in. Especially if the
Houthis manage to sink a significant US vessel in the Gulf of Aden.
The threat
of Yemen is not Yemen in and of itself, in my view. Rather, it is the message
that such a nation standing up to America and Israel sends to the world:
America’s enemies spot an opportunity to break out from US control. This will
mean chaos will increase for many parts of the world. As a Christian, I would
encourage you to pray that peace may be maintained wherever you live.
List of References
[1] Ioan
Cleave, 2023, https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25119316/yemen-arzone-worse-vietnam-houthi-chief/
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