Houthis on Camels Blow Up The New World Order

The 70-year run of the New World Order that claimed liberal democracy

through open market economics through universal communications and

common security agreements would end global inequality and conflict, took

a massive hit this week as Houthi tribesmen literally on camels blew up the

undersea telecommunications cables connecting Europe, India and Asia.

When the Soviet Union’s communist party collapsed in 1989, Stanford

professor Francis Fukuyama triumphantly declared the event as the “End of

History” and the launch of the New World Order as the highest form of

government would create equality, justice, and universal happiness.

The book’s conclusion was ironic, since Karl Marx as the founder of

communism had insisted that history could be reduced to a series of

economic revolutions where capitalism emerged in the wake of feudalism,

and then communism would emerge as the universal highest form of

government to create equality, justice, and universal happiness.

Houthi rebels have been attacking container ships and military vessels in

the Red Sea near Yemen since December in sympathy with Hamas after

its Oct. 7 raid on Southern Israel. According to the Department of Defense,

the Houthis over the last four months had conducted 100 drone and

ballistic missile attacks against ships from 35 different nations that cost an

estimated $10 billion in damages.

The newest Houthi attacks damaged or destroyed at least 5 of the 16

undersea fiberoptic cables that each day provide 17% of the world’s critical

high-speed-bandwidth route for data exchange and internet traffic to the

Middle East, India and Southern Asia.

It’s unclear how quickly the cables can be repaired, given the location of

the subsea cable and the escalating tensions in the area. Furthermore, the

fleets of ships that are capable of making such undersea cable repairs are

usually pre-booked by many months in advance for routine maintenance.

The data outages could affect financial transactions, international trade and

even stock prices. There are no reliable cost estimates for the camel-

mounted Houthi damages, but the costs could easily be $1 billion per day.