JD Vance says Suez is only important for European trade. It was both right and wrong at the same time, says one of the major strategy

• Vice President’s comments appeared when Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor -in -Chief Atlantic OceanOn Monday, war plans had been sent after adding to a group chat that appears to include JD Vance, Defense Minister Beit Higseth, and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio. Analysts said that Trump’s decision to strike indicated that his administration has become increasingly focused on fighting Iran, ideally without causing high energy prices.

A militant group backed by Iran has sparked corruption in the Red Sea, a major transitional point for global trade, for more than a year. The Trump administration decided to intervene and firing air strikes on the Houthi rebels in Yemen on March 15, but the Vice President JD Vance initially described the plan as a “mistake” in a text conversation with senior national security officials, saying that this step had saved Europe and was a difficult sale of the American people.

Vans’s comments appeared when Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor -in -Chief of the Editor -in -Chief Atlantic Oceanand open Monday that war plans were sent after adding to a group chat that seemed to include Vans, Defense Minister Beit Higseth, and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio. According to Goldberg, this was followed by a wonderful discussion of politics when Vans broadcast his fears a day before the strikes.

Suez Canal Attract 12 % to 15 % of all global maritime trade, but only 3 % of American trade passes through the artificial waterway that connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea.

“[Forty] He wrote: “There are real risks that the audience does not understand this or why it is necessary. The most powerful reason to do this is, as Potus said, is to send a message.”

Marco Bebtik, who advises institutional investors on political geography as a strategic head of BCA Research. He said that Suez is waving on the horizon for European trade from American trade.

But the American logical basis for treating turmoil in the Red Sea also involves the Trump administration’s strategy towards Iran, which experts say it helps in training, providing and providing intelligence to the Houthi rebels. Besides clear human concerns, preventing the broader conflict in the Arabian Peninsula is the key to the global economy, given the potentially destructive impact of the rise in oil prices.

While it is unclear, what are the fine numbers that Vans refer to, 40 % of the trade between Asia and Europe travels across the Red Sea, according to January 2024. Note From Allianz.

“Energy prices are the most vulnerable factors, as 12 % of the savior oil and 8 % of liquefied natural gas pass through the Suez Canal,” Allianz Books, “caused energy prices in Europe to remain very volatile.”

However, Papic said that Vans was a brief for the assumption that the United States could force Europe to obtain a bill to protect the Red Sea shipping corridors. Suez is a tremendous comfort that ships can travel between Europe and Asia without wandering in the good hope of South Africa, but he said it is hardly necessary.

Baba said: “It is a kind of doing one of the neighboring bodies to burn the grocery store, then search for those who did that and sent the bill to the owner.”

However, the trip surrounding Africa adds nearly 10 days or more to Asia-Urub trips, According to To the Atlantic Council. Ships also spent a longer period of time when the Houthis disrupted the Red Sea shipment for the first time in late 2023, and the research tank showed that global charging capacity was about 20 %.

“In the long run, these things can become a problem,” said Matt Jerten, the chief political and political strategy in the United States in BCA Research.

In government collective chat, Vans ultimately indicated that he was on board. Higseth admitted the vice president’s concerns about “European Free Loading”, describing the continent’s inaction as “compassionate.” The Minister of Defense said he felt that it was the appropriate time to act, however, given “President Donald Trump’s” directive to reopen the freight corridors. ”

At the time of publication, the White House did not respond to the request for comment.

Who are the Houthis?

The US Navy has been responsible for protecting free maritime navigation since 1956 Suez crisisGerten indicated, when US President Dwight de Ezenhauer forced the former colonial powers in the United Kingdom and France to collapse when Egypt took control of the waterway.

Therefore, one was expected to expect a strong American response when the Houthis began targeting military and civil ships in the Red Sea. The group of rebels, which controls the capital of Yemen in Sanana and many of the West in the country, where most of the population exists, is that itself is part of the “Axis of Resistance” in Iran against Israel, America and the West.

According to the BBC, the Houthis have Targeted More than 100 commercial ships with missiles and drones between the beginning of the Israel war with Hamas in late 2023 and the time of the ceasefire in Gaza in January.

The Biden administration ordered strikes, but has struggled to form a wider coalition in the Middle East and Europe to address the crisis. GERTKEN suggested that the Biden team is “paralyzed” due to fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East, which caused an inflationary shock to oil prices in the narrow election race. Vans expressed similar concerns last week.

He said: “I am not sure that the president realizes how consistent with his message to Europe is at the present time.” “There is another danger to see a moderate rise to severe oil prices.”

But Jewertin said that Trump’s decision to strike indicates that the new administration, after it started with Ukraine as its first foreign policy priority, is now focusing on fighting Iran. In the text series, Higseth said, pending the attack on the Houthis, who risked to allow Israel to act first, and prevent the United States from reaching “this starting with our own conditions.”

“It is not really surprising at all that we are building towards some great taste with Iran,” said Jerkin.

He added that it is better to fight with the Yemeni -Iranian agent in the Red Sea instead of the other side of the Arabian Peninsula in the Strait of Hormuz, where approximately 21 million barrels of oil travel daily, which represents five of the total oil in the world, represents. per US Energy Information Management.

Gertken said that attacks on tankers or, and worse than that, are a wider contradiction in the decisive waterway, can stimulate the recession, the damned narration of negative growth and high inflation.

“The stock market can really send to a tail,” he said.

Apparently, some of this differentiation and integration in Washington was discussed on the text.

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