The attacks on ships in the Red Sea are only one manifestation of a regional conflict which won\u2019t easily be ended<\/p>\n
The reality is that the war in Gaza has already spread through the region. The question is how far it extends and how intense it grows. Those involved are calculating and calibrating; they have in mind small blazes, rather than a regional conflagration. But their confidence that they can take containable risks may prove misplaced<\/a>. Crises are feeding into each other, and the likelihood of missteps is rising.<\/p>\n Thursday night\u2019s US and UK strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen<\/a> were taken after diplomacy and threats failed to halt sustained attacks on commercial\u00a0vessels in the Red Sea and the naval taskforce protecting them. They were not token measures \u2013 the US says it launched 60 strikes at 16\u00a0locations, the UK that it hit two \u2013 but were intended\u00a0to re-establish deterrence and degrade military capability rather than destroy the Houthi\u00a0threat. The US blames Iran \u2013 which supplies and enables but does not control the Houthis \u2013 for assisting\u00a0the Red Sea attacks. But neither Washington nor Tehran wants direct conflict. For Iran, it\u2019s better to allow the rest of the \u201caxis of resistance\u201d to advance its position at minimal cost.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The attacks on ships in the Red Sea are only one manifestation of a regional conflict which won\u2019t easily be ended The reality is that the war in Gaza has already spread through the region. The question is how far it extends and how intense it grows. Those involved are calculating and calibrating; they have … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}