Shibhaljazeera Net | Red Sea
The British newspaper The Telegraph reported that the situation created by the forces of Sana’a in the Red Sea presents a dilemma for Western forces and reveals a significant lack of their naval resources.
The newspaper published a report last Thursday stating that “German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius decided on Monday that a German Navy task group (consisting of two ships) returning to Europe from the Indian and Pacific Oceans would not engage in the Houthi missile battle in the southern Red Sea. Instead, the group will head south around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa.”
The newspaper also mentioned that “earlier this year, the British Foreign Office prevented the British aircraft carrier (HMS Queen Elizabeth) from deploying in the Red Sea.”
The report considered these decisions to be “political.” However, it noted that the situation in the Red Sea “poses an embarrassment to NATO at this time.”
It added: “There are militias that reveal decades of resource shortages for our naval forces, which have been exacerbated by the wrong strategy and compounded by the inability to coordinate basic operational and tactical naval activities among different groups.”
The report concluded: “Russia and China must be looking at the Red Sea now.”