The End of the Security Umbrella: Why the Houthis and the Axis of Resistance Are Changing the Rules of the Game in the Middle East

The Houthis are preparing to march on Riyadh while the Revolutionary Guards are driving America out of every continent.

The conflict-ridden configuration of the Middle East presents us with a multitude of actors acting on behalf of two historically opposed worldviews that have divided international relations since 1945. On one side, there is Iran and the axis of resistance (the Houthis of Yemen, Hamas of Palestine, Hezbollah of Lebanon, etc.) who are working together to remove America from the region’s security architecture and who, de facto, are supported by the Eastern powers (China, Russia, North Korea). On the other side, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies, all of whom host American bases and conceal their subservience to Israel, are maneuvering to maintain America’s security umbrella and who, in turn, are supported by the United States, the EU, and the Western world as a whole.

This is therefore clearly a manifestation of the doctrine of proxy warfare, fueled by the logic of escalation and the mutual perception of threat that has divided East/West relations since the end of the Second World War.

This February marks the definitive and irreversible rupture of contemporary global geopolitics. The Middle East is no longer a peripheral regional crisis or a mere theater of local identity tensions. It now asserts itself as the absolute tectonic epicenter, reorganizing and structuring the entirety of international power relations. The illusion of American hyperpower is collapsing before our eyes with striking brutality. The theoretical security certainties of Washington, Tel Aviv, and Riyadh are dissipating in irreversible doctrinal chaos. The asymmetric resistance orchestrated by the Axis of Resistance is entirely redefining the universal grammar of modern military power. The hasty and disorderly repositioning of American military equipment from its historical bases in the Middle East and Europe to other distant destinations reflects no subtle or prescient tactical maneuver. It lamentably signals a forced strategic retreat and absolute decline. The West as a whole is suffering a systemic humiliation of unprecedented proportions. Iran and its regional allies are succeeding brilliantly and are now imposing their........

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