Operation Prosperity Guardian, carried out in the Red Sea by a coalition of mostly Western countries, is making it difficult to provide assistance to Ukraine and Taiwan, British Air Marshal Edward Stringer in The Spectator magazine.

According to the second most senior officer of the British Air Force, strikes carried out against Houthi positions by the UK and the US will lead to the expenditure of resources that could be sent to Kyiv. He points out that during the first series of strikes alone, the United States spent 80 Tomahawk cruise missiles worth $1.5 million each, and the US Navy and Congress are already demanding that the government allocate funds for the purchase of new missiles.

This is money that will not be spent either on the needs of Ukraine, or on preparing the defense of Taiwan as part of an overall increase in readiness in the Indo-Pacific theater, or on directly countering Iran. These are all real problems of strategic importance, Stringer writes.

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