Two U.S. Navy destroyers fought back this weekend against missile attacks aimed at American ships in the Red Sea.
“U.S. Navy destroyers USS Stockdale (DDG 106) and the USS O’Kane (DDG 77) successfully defeated a range of Houthi-launched weapons while transiting the Gulf of Aden, Nov. 30 — Dec. 1,” U.S. Central Command reported in a news release on its website.
“The destroyers were escorting three U.S. owned, operated, flagged merchant vessels, and the reckless attacks resulted in no injuries and no damage to any vessels, civilian or U.S. Naval,” the release said.
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With that as the backdrop, Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council Ilan Berman wrote an Op-Ed posted by Newsweek, saying President-elect Trump needs to make the Houthi issue a top priority and noting that Red Sea trade has dropped 90 percent in the past year, which has impacted more than 65 nations.
Egypt alone, he wrote, has lost $6 billion in trade.
“Worse, the Biden administration seems to have basically acquiesced to the current state of affairs in the Red Sea,” he wrote, noting that after Trump labeled the Houthis a terrorist group during his first term, Biden reversed that when he took office in 2021.
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