After Operation al-Aqsa Flood, the Pentagon’s promise to protect the Israeli occupation from other fronts has seen the US military itself being targeted.

When taking into account the facts on the ground over the past six months, a general consensus may have been reached to justify a strong argument that the United States lacks any coherent strategy toward the events unfolding in West Asia.

On the other hand, the Axis of Resistance appears to have emerged with the vital element of wisdom in confronting the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza and making sure that this genocide will not persist under its watch.

The US and its proxy in the region, the Israeli regime, lack the foresight to grasp the developments made both before and after Operation al-Aqsa Flood by the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza.

It is difficult to argue Washington has a coherent strategy toward West Asia without revisiting US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s remarkably lengthy article for Foreign Affairs magazine in early October, which made it abundantly clear that President Joe Biden’s focus has swung to Russia and China because the West Asia region has become "quieter than it has been for decades."

President Biden’s “disciplined approach frees up resources for other global priorities, reduces the risk of new Middle Eastern conflicts,” he wrote.

Perhaps the most embarrassing segment of the 7,000-word twaddle was Sullivan's, who emphasized that “we have de-escalated crises in Gaza and restored direct diplomacy between the parties after years of its absence.” Nothing could have been further from the truth.

The essay presented an astonishing level of ignorance on the part of Washington. The same ignorance that enabled the Israeli occupation to turn the besieged Gaza Strip into a pressure cooker for 16 years, waiting to explode at any moment.

And if Gaza were to explode, what ramifications would that have for the region?

Five days after Sullivan assured us that the Biden White House has “de-escalated crises in Gaza”, Hamas launched the largest operation against the Israeli occupation since 1948, an operation that essentially sent a message to Sullivan asking him "On what planet you are living on?"

Also, shortly after Sullivan declared that the West Asia region was “quieter than it has been for decades”, the US found itself stuck between a rock and a hard place bombing Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. If anything, the US National Security Advisor offered a unique insight into just how ill-informed the Biden administration was on West Asia, despite repeated warnings that the heinous Israeli crimes against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank, and at al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied al-Quds was on the verge of spiraling out of control.

As Washington was busy pumping weapons to Ukraine in a bid to prolong an avoidable war with Russia while stocking up tensions between China and Taiwan, all so US arms and energy companies could reap the profits, the Palestinians were planning to avoid their extinction at the hands of a fascist government in "Tel Aviv".

Sullivan’s article was actually so awkward that Foreign Affairs magazine asked him to change it, but the original text can still be found on the internet.

Amid a shameful absence in the enforcement of international law, mainly due to US veto power at the Security Council, the Israeli regime was given the green light to commit genocide in Gaza, but there are parties one step ahead of the US and the Israeli regime.

These parties aren’t waiting for the International Court of Justice to reach a verdict in a couple of years of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, by which time death, famine, and disease would effectively wipe the Palestinians off the map from Gaza.

Yemen’s Ansar Allah takes enormous credit for enacting international law on behalf of the UN General Assembly, which has called on the Israeli regime to end its mass slaughter campaign against Palestinian women and children in Gaza.

Enforcing an embargo on Israeli and "Israel"-affiliated vessels in the Red Sea is not only courageous because Yemen is the poorest country in West Asia standing in solidarity with Gaza, but also because Ansar Allah had anticipated and made plans for a US military response.

The creation of a US-led naval coalition that Washington tried to frame as being an “international coalition,” despite a handful of countries joining in and other key countries refusing to participate, makes it anything but “international”.

The notable absence of Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who also share Red Sea waters, sends a strong message.

Washington was desperate for Riyadh and Cairo to join its sinking coalition, but Ansar Allah had the foresight that both countries would reject the requests, as it would have been a disastrous PR move in the Arab world for the Saudis and the Egyptians to publicly oppose measures being taken in solidarity with Gaza, regardless of who is conducting them.

Such is the scale of death and destruction in Gaza. No Arab state can really condemn Ansar Allah’s operations publicly. It is something that Washington failed to anticipate.

Reports did surface of an incident where the Saudis shot down a Yemeni missile or drone intended to target Israeli military interests, but that’s a debate for another day.

The US has failed miserably in its bid to deter Ansar Allah’s anti-Israeli operations by the admission of senior US officials themselves.

The now regular US and British bombings on alleged Ansar Allah sites are, in essence, only changing the pattern of the sand in the Yemeni deserts.

Despite being militarily inferior to the US and British militaries, Ansar Allah has managed to outmaneuver the two countries by launching relatively cheap drones and homemade missiles against Israeli, American, and British vessels and warships, with devastating effect.

Eight years of war on Ansar Allah certainly helped the Yemeni forces gain experience in warfare, but also, the government in Sanaa has displayed a splendid example of faith and willpower to fulfill what is a moral duty to stand with the oppressed.

Western leaders’ remarks and mainstream media reports that Ansar Allah is wreaking havoc in an international shipping lane or unleashing almost daily operations to gain regional popularity are both falling on deaf ears in Sanaa, because maritime data shows global commercial shipping remains unaffected by Ansar Allah’s embargo on Israeli vessels. 

But more importantly, how many Palestinian children must die before the West realizes this has nothing to do with popularity?

How high should the death toll of children be to shake the conscience of Western leaders? How many dead Palestinian children is too many?

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The US doesn't seem to care. The UK is in the same camp. Ansar Allah knows one dead child is too many, which is why it is naturally winning the hearts and minds of freedom-seeking people around the world, and also why on the streets of Sanaa, where the sea of people protesting in support of Gaza every Friday is so huge that video cameras are unable to capture the entirety of the demonstration.

This is while the US heavily militarizes the Red and Arabian Seas, sending insurance prices for commercial shipping to skyrocket and delaying Christmas parcels from reaching their destination.

It backfired on Washington, which lacked any wisdom and had no strategy apart from entering the Red Sea with its guns blazing. The US National Security Advisor has effectively made this quite clear.

Anyone sending Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies was advised to put their orders in quicker this year.

The Iraqi Resistance stood in solidarity with Gaza by bombarding US military bases illegally stationed in the country because, like many around the world, it viewed the US as directly complicit in the genocidal Israeli war.

The attacks hastened negotiations between the government in Baghdad and the US to end the American occupation.

The strategy of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq was also filled with intelligence. The debate between some segments of Iraqi society is that if the US military presence in the country is an “advisory role” as Washington claims, then it should be considered as such.

But if the US uses force and returns to its “combat role” which it did during the era of ISIS, then it is considered an occupation because ISIS sleeper cells can be tracked down by the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), which led the battles against ISIS after the US-trained Iraqi army collapsed in the summer of 2014.

That argument has now been put to rest following deadly US attacks on Iraqi soil, assassinating Iraqi military commanders, which certainly does not fit the criteria of an “advisory role mission”.

What the US failed to grasp was that under the Iraqi constitution, the PMF has a legally binding duty to target an occupation, regardless if it’s an American occupation or an ISIS occupation.

The US military, on the other hand, with its presence in the country being an “advisory” one, has no right to violate Iraqi sovereignty. This was evident when President Biden was very hesitant to strike back at the attacks on US bases.

The US has been violating Iraqi airspace on a regular basis in any case, but the straw that broke the camel's back was the attacks on PMF positions and the airstrikes that killed senior PMF commanders after the death of three American soldiers at Tower 22. 

The irony is that the Iraqi Resistance movements responsible for the attacks on the illegal US bases in Iraq and Syria were not even affiliated with the PMF, which was formally integrated by Parliament into the Iraqi National Armed Forces.

The Iraqi Resistance got what it wanted. Talks have been initiated by Baghdad and Washington on the withdrawal of the US occupation, while the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has entered its “second phase” of launching drones at vital Israeli interests.

The second phase includes a blockade of Israeli vessels in the Mediterranean Sea. The implementation of this embargo appears to be on the way with many attacks from Iraq striking Haifa and its port, which is on the Mediterranean.

The Israeli occupation could potentially find itself facing a maritime embargo on all fronts, with Ansar Allah being effective in the execution of its operations in the Red and Arabian seas.

Syria, which has been plagued by a decade of foreign-backed terrorism and a US occupation, has played its part, with Resistance movements targeting Israeli military interests in the occupied Golan Heights. The US wasn’t expecting that front to open.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has been meticulously intelligent in its resistance operations. Starting on October 8, it has waged daily sophisticated operations that have seen Israeli settlers displaced in droves from northern Israeli settlements for the first time in history.

Hezbollah always seems to have that secret factor of the element of surprise.

Whenever reports emerge of an operation waged by the Lebanese Resistance, even Israeli media cites the regime’s military pundits as saying it is scary.

July 2006 was a long time ago, and the war that "Tel Aviv" waged on Lebanon then was perhaps the first time the world viewed Hezbollah as a formidable force, despite the warnings signs already emerging in the year 2000.

Nevertheless, only Hezbollah knows what weapons it possesses. The movement always appears to be one step ahead of its enemies, so the Kornet (used by Hezbollah in July 2006) would naturally be the last weapon that the Israeli military would be afraid of today.

In the current phase of the battle, which isn’t even a full-blown war, Israeli forces have gone into hiding.

The US informed "Tel Aviv" to focus on Gaza, promising the regime that other fronts would not open against the occupation, and it has failed miserably at that pledge with American forces themselves coming under attack.

In Gaza, it would appear that "Tel Aviv" has learned nothing from its wars on the coastal enclave and its 2006 war on Lebanon.

The Israeli military can kill women and children, along with reducing residential buildings to rubble, but always makes the mistake of stating goals that it cannot achieve.

Hamas prepared for all Israeli scenarios, and just like the 2006 war on Lebanon, after six months of relentless air and ground assaults on Gaza, the Israeli captives haven’t been returned, Hamas is nowhere near being “wiped out”, nor will they “be eliminated” according to US intelligence, and the idea of killing all Hamas leaders is a pipedream.

In urban warfare, there is a simple rule. Any military trying to occupy another people’s land needs to hold on to an area before moving to the next one. The invading Israeli occupation forces have not been able to execute this simple military strategy for more than five months now.

Three months ago, "Tel Aviv" announced it had finished operations and eliminated Hamas in northern Gaza, the next day there were fierce clashes between the armed wing of Hamas, the al-Qassam brigades, and Israeli ground forces in Jabalia, northern Gaza.

Today, fighting wages on in different parts of northern Gaza despite repeated Israeli claims that the north has been cleared of al-Qassam fighters. The same applies across the entire Gaza Strip. There hasn’t been a single Israeli military achievement in Gaza that "Tel Aviv" can boast about.