Last night, 73 strikes on 60 targets. Ex 16 iranian backed Houti rebel militant locations in Yemen. These are in retaliation for the attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea that began by the Houtis group on commercial vessels as well as us military vessels, UK vessels and other countries vessels in response to. They say they are stand ending with the ghazans in response to the israeli response to the attack on October 7. 

So there is that connection all the way back to what happened in Israel and Israel's ongoing response to the Hamas atrocities of October 7. But they were not, again just firing at Israel. They were firing at commercial shipping, some us shipping, some other international shipping. I want to give you a little bit of an education on who we're dealing with here. The Houthis are also known as Ansar Allah, which means supporters of God. 

It's an armed group that controls most of the populated areas of Yemen. It's only about a third of the landscape. The Houthis emerged in the 1990s. At that time, they had just a couple of thousand members, but rose to prominence in 2014 when the group rebelled against Yemen's government. So it was an internal civil war that was going on there, causing the government to step down and sparked a huge humanitarian crisis. 

The group then spent years with Iran's backing. Again, folks, this is all coming out of Iran fighting a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia in the Yemen civil war. So the Houtis and Saudi Arabia have been in conflict by the numbers. The Houtis are the only proxy of the Islamic Republic that have both land attack cruise missiles and medium range ballistic missiles. So that means their munitions are much higher than the other groups backed by Iran. 

I won't get into the particulars on what they have. They have drones, which they're using as well, the standing army. And there's no direct number on this, but it is estimated to be between 50,150 thousand soldiers. So this is a sophisticated military that has been doing these actions against the United States, Jordan. Yeah, and they've continued to expand. I mean, when they were initially a rebel group of 1000 who was against the Yemen government, the yemeni government. 

And Yemen has basically been a failed state and is still in a civil war. The civil war is not yet over. They have a separate governing body of the territories that the Houtis don't control. But this time around, rather than focusing their attention internally, they have decided to go external again, to use the term that Mike Pompeo used. These are just, again, contract terror groups for Iran. This attack that was just launched by the US and the UK has the risk of pushing us into a greater conflict because this administration is incapable and inept, and they don't put the interests of our country, security and the american people first. 

So if we go back to 2021, when the Biden administration took the houthi terrorist group off of the terrorist list, you look at the Biden administration gifting Iran with over $6 billion, claiming that, oh, they're only going to use this for humanitarian interest when everyone knows that Iran was using that money and is using that money to continue to fund these proxy groups like the Houthis and Hamas and others. 

And you look at the way that this administration forecasted this attack over the last few weeks, putting it out there in broad daylight that they were going to be launching this attack, which gave the Houthis the ability to go and stockpile and put their sensitive systems and their weapon systems in a place where the administration would not be able to actually achieve the kinds of effects that they claim to be trying to do, which is to damage the Houthis ability to keep attacking these ships and attacking a global commerce, essentially in the Red Sea. 

Look at the past. Saudi Arabia, with a lot of us support, and by the way, with no authorization from Congress, worked with Saudi Arabia in their war against the Houthis, which started in 2014. That war was waged for over ten years. Guess who won? The Houthis won, sadly, with the cost of hundreds of thousands of innocent yemeni civilians lives. But it ended only recently in a ceasefire that the Houthis negotiated with the yemeni government and Saudi Arabia. 

My point is for leaders in Washington to think that going and launching attacks against the Houthis, as happened yesterday, is going to deter the Houthis. I don't know, maybe they believe Santa Claus is real. One mistake and we've got a powder keg that is already affecting our global economy. One mistake here and we can have a mess. Like we said, they're the only terror group linked to Iran that has these intercontinental. 

Exactly right. If you don't have a plan going into a battle, and she would know better than any of us, if you don't have a plan going into a battle, it does not end, especially, and I think you put that on steroids when it's the Middle east. We know the president isn't talking to the secretary of defense, that's for sure. Bye. .