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The Houthis, acting as instruments of the Iranian regime, have moved to close the Red Sea to Saudi commerce, mirroring the economic warfare the United States once directed at Iran and now risks suffering in return.
Such a blockade threatens to drive oil prices beyond endurance while exposing the fragility of American energy reserves already drained by prior commitments.
President Trump confronts a direct test: continued operations against Iran may lose Saudi bases and airspace, repeating the swift suspension of Project Freedom in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this year.
National sovereignty requires every commonwealth to place the security and prosperity of its own people above the ambitions of distant powers or the calculations of unreliable allies.
This principle echoes the Westphalian settlement of 1648, which ended the era of religious and dynastic wars by affirming that rulers answer first to the order and welfare of their own realms rather than universal causes.
When a nation allows foreign proxies to dictate the terms of its defense and economy, it abdicates the patriarchal duty to guard its household and commonwealth.
The faithful remnant must therefore reject every entanglement that subordinates American interests to Arabian security or Persian conflict.
They must demand an immediate return to energy independence, border integrity, and a foreign policy ordered solely by the survival of the historic American nation.
