Three U.S. military personnel injured in attack by Kataib Hezbollah

When does BI-Dumb start WW3???

The real issue is how weak Biden is now looking on the World stage with this.

His "Operation Prosperity Guardian" did not unite other countries to fight the Houthi rebels that are attacking the ships.

I can get why they may not want to unite, necessarily, under the American flag.  But why not?  They look for the USA to always lead on these things.

So, now it seems they do not trust the USA enough to rally behind them.  I get that they want to remain independent and not under USA command.  But it looks very bad that Biden could not gather a more unifying coalition.

Even France which agrees there needs to freedom of navigation has decided not to join the USA.  Italy will not join and says they will 'prioritize protection of their ships'.

Norway ais sending 10 naval officers, the Netherlands is sending 2, and Denmark is sending 1 officer.

This is the result:

Biden's failure to get America's allies to fully join in the effort to protect shipping traffic from Iran-backed terrorists has resulted in a "lack of details and clarity over what countries are doing" that "has added to confusion for shipping companies, some of which have been re-routing vessels away from the area after the attacks," Reuters noted.

This was one guy's take on it:

This outcome was, of course, entirely predictable. 

President Biden has alienated, surprised, angered, and disappointed America's allies at almost every turn. There was the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that led the U.K. parliament to formally hold Biden in contempt, his failed efforts to deter Putin from invading Ukraine that saw him only push China and Russia closer, and many other less severe situations in which Biden received rebukes from America's allies that makes it logical for such allies to doubt his operation in the Red Sea.

It's hard to blame countries for not wanting to entrust their vessels and troops to Biden's chain of command after he handed Afghanistan to the Taliban and used Russia's invasion of Ukraine — after he insisted U.S. sanctions would serve as a deterrent — as a scapegoat for his domestic political crises.

This time around, it's worth noting that the reluctance and refusal to join the U.S. coalition could be due to Biden's inability to deter attacks on U.S. troops in the Middle East. 

Despite bringing significant fighting power to the region to supposedly back up his command of "Don't" to those who would escalate hostilities, Biden has not deterred ongoing attacks on U.S. personnel stationed in Iraq and Syria by responding with meaningful force. 

The countries choosing not to jump at the opportunity to fall under U.S. command for the operation are likely not wanting to bind themselves to a leader, Biden, who has largely refused to use the resources at his disposal to put down the attacks against his own forces. 

The guy cannot get out of office quick enough.  I lay a lot of the blame on the guys that are running him and their bad advice on everything.

But when they make you look weak and indecisive on the World stage, that is very bad.

He is the wrong person to be in charge at any time; but he, for sure, will be the wrong person to be in charge if things get worse in that area.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/us/politics/war-israel-iran-hezbollah-yemen.html

The killing of a top Hamas leader in Lebanon and mysterious twin explosions in Iran heighten fears of a regional war that could draw in the United States.

But the assassination of a top leader of Hamas in Lebanon on Tuesday, and the deaths of scores of people in mysterious twin explosions in Iran on Wednesday, threatened to bring the Middle East — and the United States — closer to the brink of a regional war, which the Biden administration has tried to stave off since Hamas’s deadly attacks against Israel on Oct. 7.

Just hours after the bombs went off in Iran, the United States and 12 of its allies issued a written warning to another militia group in the region, the Houthis of Yemen, who have been mounting near-daily missile, drone and seaborne attacks on commercial vessels.

So far the United States has held back from retaliating against Houthi bases in Yemen, in large part because it does not want to undermine a fragile truce in Yemen’s civil war.

More mainstream folks now are seeming to be concerned about this.

It could get very interesting.