Middle East: As the ceasefire agreement in Gaza approaches its implementation, which would end this round of conflict if adhered to by the Zionist enemy, more evidence of America's crushing historical defeat before Yemen is becoming apparent.

This culmination marks a year of unparalleled technical, operational, and tactical superiority of the Yemeni Armed Forces, in a battle where all outcomes have been shockingly and glaringly counterproductive for the United States. It has faced an unprecedented failure in achieving its objectives, a collapse in deterrence capabilities, and complete incapacity to contain or even understand the threat, a situation whose impact will not end with the conflict’s conclusion, but will continue to haunt the US Navy and America's "deterrence" reputation for a long time.

New signs of America's defeat include reports by some US and Western media about the impact of the Gaza ceasefire agreement on the situation in the Red Sea. Reuters quoted maritime security and shipping sector officials and experts as saying that operations by Yemeni forces in the Red Sea might halt after the cessation of hostilities in Gaza, indicating that Yemen has successfully imposed and established a clear reality linking maritime operations with the situation in Gaza. This is now fully recognized by shipping companies, despite all US and Western attempts to distort this fact and claim that halting Yemeni operations depends on military mobilization against Yemen.

In this regard, the British maritime Lloyd's List magazine made an even clearer statement, saying that the announcement of a ceasefire “opens the door for the possible return of shipping traffic to the Bab al-Mandab Strait” and that "shipping sectors forced to reroute or choose to do so voluntarily no longer depend on maritime security or diplomatic negotiations to decide whether to return; instead, they await a signal from the Houthis themselves." This shows that the Armed Forces not only succeeded in affirming the relationship between the situation in Gaza and the Red Sea, but also confirmed their full control over the situation, becoming the true decision-makers for shipping companies, marking a historic defeat for the US Navy and Western forces who had tried for an entire year to control the situation. This confirms what the leader of the revolution, Sayyed Abdulmalik Badreddin al-Houthi, stated in his recent speech about the “decisive result” achieved by maritime operations in controlling the situation and enforcing a complete blockade on enemy-related maritime activities.

The shipping sector’s confirmation that Sana’a is the true decision-maker and that the linkage between halting the genocide in Gaza and stopping Yemeni operations is the foundation for ending these operations, has coincided with new admissions of defeat that the US Navy has never faced before. US Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro acknowledged on Friday in a farewell speech in Washington that Yemeni maritime attacks "are anything but routine." He added that the United States “is engaged in the longest continuous naval combat operations it has faced since World War II."

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, in remarks reported by the US military site Military, stated that the Yemenis "pose a particularly difficult challenge; they would be happy to expand the war with the US." He considered that "the idea of launching a major operation with large numbers of US forces on the ground in Yemen is not particularly attractive."

Speaking about the depletion of expensive defense munitions in the Red Sea, Sullivan remarked that the Yemenis "can quickly create much simpler things than those produced by the US. They may not be of the same quality, but they are certainly good enough to make a significant impact on the battlefield."

Last week, US Navy leaders officially revealed that the US Navy had used 220 missiles in the Red Sea from just three systems: the SM-2, SM-6, and ESSM, at a cost exceeding $650 million. They did not disclose details of the more expensive munitions or other costs, which US research centers estimated in November at over $4 billion.

In fact, US officials’ references to World War II as a benchmark to measure the confrontation in the Red Sea now seem like an attempt to downplay the reality and ignore the magnitude of the defeat. The US Navy has never before faced such a failure against a single entity it describes as a "non-governmental group." This situation far exceeds comparisons with World War II in terms of the nature of the confrontation and its outcomes.

The new American admissions have shed more light on the operational failure of the US Navy, revealing that its advanced tools could not keep up with Yemen's unprecedented challenge. US Navy Secretary Del Toro stated last Wednesday that "US Navy destroyers and cruisers need to leave the battlefield in the Red Sea to reload their missile cells," noting that this "creates a gap in presence and poses a real challenge, not only for the Red Sea campaign but also for any future war with China across the vast expanse of the Western Pacific," according to Military.

This admission helps debunk the misleading narrative that some tried to promote in recent months, attributing the US failure in the Red Sea to a lack of political will. These admissions confirm that the issues the US faces in confronting Yemen go beyond the White House's ability to resolve them; Yemen has surpassed even American capabilities, tactics, and technologies.

Translated by Almasirah English website