Tag: Black Sea
The main significance of the Houthi attack is that that the era of ballistic missile warfare against ships at sea has begun.
Following what was widely seen as a humiliating failure to recruit developing countries for its war drive against Russia at the G20, the United States is preparing to further step up its involvement in the Ukraine war.
It is not clear if the West will give Russia any relief on its ability to export its own agricultural products.
Does the West’s despairing of Ukrainian military prospects imply a coming draw-down on the war? Or alternatively, a western strategic shift towards a different mode of attritional war against Russia?