Yemen’s Iranian Allies On the Move, Hezbollah’s Setbacks, & US Moon Ambitions

• Ansarallah’s advances in Yemen appear to be a positive development for Iran and its network alliances – however the organization has previously held this territory, it extends (perhaps overextends) the organization in terms of operations and logistics, and may feed into US objectives rather than oppose them;

• The US is waging war on Iran to disrupt energy exports from all of West Asia – closing additional maritime transit points only enhances US energy dominance strategies;

• Hezbollah is currently facing setbacks as Israeli forces encroach further into Lebanon – enabled by the US-backed 2024 collapse of Syria;

• All of these conflicts are being fought to diminish Iran’s network alliances in addition to Iran itself;

• Tech CEO Eric Schmidt admits that Ukraine is losing the innovation race against Russia but appears oblivious to the fundamental factors causing this deficiency;

• US ambitions toward the Moon may include a desire to hold the “high ground” at the top of Earth’s gravity well and to disrupt Chinese plans to develop an Earth-Moon economic zone;

References:

RAND Corporation – Dangerous But not Omnipotent (2009):
https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/…

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