Italian Maritime Site warns: US under close Yemeni surveillance in Red Sea

WORLD, Jan. 28 (YPA) – An Italian maritime affairs website, Blokonomi, reported that the United States has effectively come “under the radar” and close surveillance in the Red Sea by Yemeni forces, which it said possess proven intelligence and operational capabilities.

According to the report, Washington now gives significant weight to Yemen in all of its regional calculations, especially as Sana’a has repeatedly demonstrated an exceptional ability to strike and target vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden with high precision

This development places the global maritime system at a critical pressure point, with repercussions that extend well beyond the immediate geographic theater, as shipping and insurance companies are the first to absorb the costs of a US escalation whose consequences remain uncertain.

In this context, Martin Kelly, head of advisory at EOS Risk Group, said Yemeni attacks have exposed the fragility of the global maritime system.

He noted that the system can be pressured through limited, high-impact incidents that nonetheless generate seismic, transcontinental effects—turning any future US gamble against regional forces into a high-risk move with potentially existential consequences for the arteries of the global economy that pass through the region’s strategic chokepoints.

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