HOUTHI: US missiles raining down on Sanaa today after the Yemeni fighters target allied warships in the Red Sea. China is providing over the horizon targeting to the terrorists. pic.twitter.com/NPtMTL3H85
— @amuse (@amuse) April 20, 2025
They said it was a pinprick. A limited strike. Just a few targets. But Sanaa burned under the weight of American missiles again today. The sky lit up like a storm of steel. The Ras Isa oil terminal went up in flames. More than seventy dead. At least one hundred seventy injured. And for what? To send a message that has already been ignored a hundred times over.
The Red Sea has become a graveyard of diplomacy. The Houthis are not backing down. In fact, they are escalating. They struck at allied warships again this week, as if daring Washington to respond. Washington did. The response was brutal. Precision? Maybe. But the wreckage still bleeds. The bodies are still counted. The hospitals still overflow.
What the headlines bury, and what officials refuse to admit, is what may be fueling this from the shadows. Beijing. Whispers from intelligence circles say China is quietly providing over-the-horizon targeting support to the Houthis. Not openly, not officially. But enough to tilt the battlefield. Enough to keep the fire burning. And the timing is no coincidence. With the U.S. stretched thin and divided at home, the door is wide open for proxy chaos.
Ask yourself why a ragtag militia suddenly has the precision to strike moving warships. Ask why their targeting improved overnight. Then ask who gains from more chaos in the Red Sea. The answer won’t come from the State Department.
This is about control. This is about routes, oil, and leverage. The Bab el-Mandeb strait sees nearly 10 percent of the world’s trade. Disrupt that, and you don’t just choke off shipping lanes. You send ripple effects into global energy markets. Into supply chains. Into inflation. Into the daily cost of living.
This is not just Yemen’s war anymore. It is part of the wider unraveling. The world order that held together with duct tape and brute force since the Cold War is fraying at the edges. The superpowers now operate through proxies and shadows. Meanwhile, civilians die in the open.
Washington claims this is about stopping terrorism. That sounds noble, until you remember that the U.S. has now bombed at least ten different countries in the past two decades under the same banner. Each time, the situation worsens. Each time, the blowback grows stronger.
And now here we are again. New bombs. Old excuses. Same blood on the sand.
If China is backing the Houthis, even indirectly, then we are playing a far more dangerous game than the Pentagon admits. This is how wars used to start. With alliances made in secret, missiles launched in silence, and the public told after the fact.
Sources:
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2025-04-17/yemen-houthis-attack-fuel-port-17500449.html