A U.S. and UK-led coalition has bombed the Houthis inside Yemen, and you ve seen on the streets all the worst people in the world, from the girl who thinks showering was invented by the patriarchy to the man waving the Taliban flag, are all up in arms and very upset, screaming about international law. And you re sitting there wondering, hey, what s going on? Enter Daniel, I m here to help.
00:00:00.400So a U.S. and U.K.-led coalition has bombed the Houthis inside Yemen, and you've seen on the streets all the worst people in the world,
00:00:08.160from the girl who thinks showering was invented by the patriarchy to the man waving the Taliban flag,
00:00:12.880are all up in arms and very upset, screaming about international law, and you're sitting there wondering,
00:00:19.460hey, what's going on? Enter Daniel, I'm here to help. What is going on?
00:00:24.860First thing you need to know is the Houthis are not Yemen. They're an IRGC-backed militant rebel faction that started the civil war years ago.
00:00:35.800They are a proxy of, you could say, Iran. It's really the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:00:42.100To know a bit about the IRGC, their key goal is to guard the revolution. They openly state they're not Iranian.
00:00:47.780They don't protect Iranian interests. Yes, they're Iranian-backed, but they're the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:00:52.540Their goal is to spread the Islamic Revolution of 1979 to the world.
00:00:56.920And in their own doctrine of the Quds Force, their international arm, part of the way they do that is they find cells of resistance,
00:01:04.860which they describe as any Shiite population anywhere, because, again, they're radical Shiite lunatics.
00:01:09.900And what they do is they fund them, and they train them, and they send them arms.
00:01:13.460They use them to create chaos and use that as leverage in the international community.
00:03:14.600Sorry, this isn't a war, you can do an act of war.
00:03:16.140Okay, the actual law here is the U.S. president has the authority, he's the commander-in-chief,
00:03:21.540he can authorize military strikes as long as he goes to Congress within 40 hours to explain it.
00:03:27.300Imagine if there was an invasion force floating towards America and the president had to get congressional approval to fire before they reach American shores.
00:03:39.480No, you would have to authorize kinetically and quickly.
00:03:42.240Instead of calling all the Congress together for a vote because they're going to land in the U.S. in an hour,
00:03:46.820you need someone to say, no, blow them out of the water now so they can't invade New York.
00:04:41.440As you see, terrorist organizations and drug cartels, criminal organizations,
00:04:45.240they thrive in places where there's chaos and lawlessness.
00:04:49.620So, Yemen, being the most unstable place in that region, naturally had a lot of al-Qaeda members gravitate to it and create a strong bed, right?
00:04:58.080This is where Anwar al-Awlaki had to be drone strike.
00:05:00.800Now, during the war on terror, the U.S. and the coalition forces were, in Yemen, essentially stabilizing the government.
00:05:06.920Once we did this whole, let's just run away and pull out and pretend the problem is solved,
00:05:11.300that's when we got the Yemeni civil war because, for years, the IRGC had been funding, training, and supplying the Houthi rebels with arms and ammunition.
00:05:20.380And when the coalition forces pulled out and you had an already unstable government with a heavily IRGC, Islamic regime, and Iran-backed militia,
00:05:29.060they were able to institute chaos and civil war.
00:05:31.720And then, once the Houthis gained enough territorial control, what did they start doing?
00:05:34.960They started launching missiles at Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
00:05:39.180Because, again, they're Shiite extremists, and those are Sunnis.
00:05:42.500So, gotta kill them all. That's what they do.
00:05:46.000Well, their actual slogan doesn't say anything to Saudi Arabia.
00:05:48.320The actual slogan of these Houthis, these vaunted noble defenders of whatever it is you're going to claim, is,
00:05:54.600Allahu Akbar, God is the greatest, death to America, death to Israel, curse upon the Jews, victory to Islam.
00:06:01.200That's their literal slogan. That is what they're trying to do.
00:06:27.640They started screaming about Yemen, and they got the Biden administration to stop supplying MBS and Saudi Arabia with the munitions to fight against the Houthis,
00:06:36.180and took the Houthis off the designated terror list, thinking, if we hug the terrorists and give them everything they want, they will love us.
00:06:43.080Their slogan, again, to recap, God is the greatest, death to America, death to Israel, curse upon the Jews, victory to Islam.
00:06:51.320So, that was their statement before Biden gave them a hug.
00:06:54.220This is their position after Biden gave them a hug.
00:06:56.620You cannot hug the terrorism away, no matter how hard you try.
00:07:00.500So, again, when the coalition forces pulled out of Yemen, it enabled the IRGC-backed Houthis to ravage the country.
00:07:09.340Now, they have control of certain parts of it, and they are getting much more supplies from Iran.
00:07:15.000They have high-grade missile technology, high-grade weapons technology, and they're using this to blockade and attack ships in the Red Sea.
00:07:21.340Most of them not even related to Israel, like palm oil shipments from Italy to India.
00:07:25.540This is who the Houthis are attacking to save Palestine, because they're lunatics, and they're not that smart.
00:07:39.380So, the coalition, which was led by the U.S. and the U.K., because they have real militaries, they said backing from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
00:07:48.580I guarantee you, Justin Trudeau is not leading the charge here, but what that does mean is this is a unified message from the Five Eyes countries.
00:07:55.200The Five Eyes, right, those five countries' names, they're behind this.
00:08:04.740Listen, I'm happy Canada's name on it.
00:08:07.200And, you know, it's like the group project.
00:08:10.220Yes, we're the kid in the class who didn't really do part of the group project, but the leaders decided to put our names on it, so we still get the mark.
00:08:16.220It's the best foreign policy moment of Trudeau's entire career.
00:08:20.320You have the Houthis, who have done their little jihad in the Red Sea.
00:08:25.720And now they've been punched in the mouth.
00:08:30.220Now, what the Houthis, and more specifically the Islamic Republic of Iran, and their international proxy are going to try and do, is try and win the narrative on Yemen right now.
00:08:40.900And they're going to try really hard to push some sort of victory or victimhood narrative for Yemen.