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The Saudis have carried out punishing strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, trying to offer their support to the internationally recognized government of Yemen,
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which has tried to push back against the Houthis.
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But in much the same way we saw Iran fight, the Houthis are doing the same.
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They don't have the military capability or the weapons to match
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Saudi Arabia's military.
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What they do have are drones, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles, and they're able to use those very effectively to cause the disruptions we're seeing here.
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Not only are the Saudis in trouble, the world is in trouble.
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Drones have changed warfare forever, and I believe the Houthis can beat
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Saudi Arabia, period.
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I mean, they're doing it right now.
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In Saudi Arabia, that's a whole different conversation.
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Obviously, an airport was hit, catastrophe in Saudi Arabia, but there's a lot more where that came from.
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Let's tell you the whole story.
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Yes, in fact, Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince is currently in hiding,
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transitioning from bunker to bunker as this escalation between the Saudis and the Houthis,
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best known as Ansar Allah, escalates.
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So let's get to the details because there's also the other issue with more
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and more vessels and supertankers getting struck in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran.
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So this spells a lot of trouble for the global economy.
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So the Houthis carried out a missile strike that hit the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh over the weekend.
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So the first strike took place on Saturday.
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The Houthis say that the strikes were in retaliation for Saudi strikes in Yemen that killed women and children.
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Now take a look at this footage, you're gonna see a little of the damage that was carried out by the Houthis.
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So the strike at the Saudi capitals international airport killed at least 13 people, including one American and wounded 300 others.
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Air defense systems did not provide earlier warning of the attack, and that is currently being investigated right now.
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This is the worst attack in Saudi Arabia over the decade.
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Let me just pause to note that, remember, the latest round of fighting between the Houthis the Saudis happened because of the fact that
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Saudi Arabia violated a ceasefire that had been ongoing for a few years.
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They decided to carry out strikes against a plane that had just been in Iran for the assassinated Ayatollah's funeral.
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As they were coming back to Yemen,
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their plane was targeted by the Saudis that broke the ceasefire and that led to the latest this round of fighting,
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which the Saudis seem to be dominating in, okay?
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So going back to the airport in Riyadh that was targeted and attacked.
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So two terminals were struck and their roofs were partially collapsed.
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The airport was evacuated and it is closed and will remain so for the remainder of the week.
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However, there were additional strikes that Ansar Allah carried out against the airport today.
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The airport, there were more attacks on the airport on Sunday as well.
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A projectile caused a fire in terminal four and led to one death as well as injuries.
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And an initial probe by the Saudis found that the Houthis fired multiple drones to pave the way,
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to clear the way essentially for a mix of crews and ballistic missiles.
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MBS, as I mentioned earlier, is currently in hiding and And the Houthis have hit the King Khalid International Airport at least four times,
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five times now, considering the strikes that took place today.
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Now there are additional Houthi strikes that took place in Riyadh today as well, and making matters worse for the Saudis.
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And this is a problem for the US as well.
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So keep this in mind, Saudi officials said that they are running low on interceptors needed to fend off further strikes.
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The kingdom has called for help from its military ally Pakistan and is scouring the globe for air defenses.
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Air defenses that we are in short supply of.
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And even if they had interceptors, guys, here's something else to keep in mind.
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The Houthis possess ballistic missiles and advanced systems fitted with warheads
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that can change direction during flight and pose a challenge to Patriot interceptors and other defense systems used by the Saudis.
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This has been something that has been raised by many military experts.
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There seems to be this thought that the Patriot missile interceptors are infallible, they're fantastic at intercepting all missiles, but that's not necessarily the case.
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And on top of that, the debris from intercepted ballistic missiles can be incredibly dangerous.
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One hit a kindergarten and a medical clinic complex Thursday in Saudi Arabia.
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Now, Trump signaled that he is considering entering this conflict in order to defend the Saudis.
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But honestly, that seems unlikely.
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Ever since Trump made mention of that, there's been no movement on it.
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And it's because Trump has struck a side deal with the Houthis.
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As long as he doesn't attack them, they will only block
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Saudi vessels and ships in the Bab al -Mendib Strait.
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And the United States is providing
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Saudi Arabia with intelligence support, but that's about it.
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It doesn't seem like
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Trump wants to do more than that.
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Now the Israelis have said that they want to join in this war in order to help the Saudis.
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And so the Saudis have responded to that by saying that they are reviewing their options.
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In the meantime, the Saudis keep escalating the war in ways that won't work out so well for them.
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And really the only way to kind of save
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Saudi Arabia is to do the opposite of what they're doing now, but let's keep it real, MBS, there are egos at play.
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So, Saudi airstrikes on a government complex and house in the northern province of Al Jaff killed nine people,
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including five children and a woman and wounded seven others.
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And ever since Saudi Arabia carried out those strikes, Ansar Allah has basically retaliated with a vengeance.
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Saudi Arabia also carried out strikes in the Yemeni capital of Sana 'a, killing one.
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And for those concerned about the airstrikes on a civilian airport, look, Saudi Arabia should not,
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and any country really should not use civilian airports for fighter jets, number one.
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But also, Saudi Arabia, let's not forget, has bombed Yemen's airport hundreds of times, at least 227 times to be specific.
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I mean, in 2018 alone, they carried out 47 airstrikes against the airport in Yemen.
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So I don't want it to seem as though the Saudis are being innocent here.
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They're the ones who broke the ceasefire, which led to the latest round of fighting between themselves and Ansar Allah.
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So I got really bad news and potentially good news.
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So the really bad news is no one is safe anymore.
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That's really bad news.
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Okay, but gigantic silver lining potentially, which is I think that this will eventually mean we have less wars or fewer wars.
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Now why?
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So first, no one saved anymore because of the drones.
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And so before, Saudi Arabia could bomb the living crap out of Yemen all day, all night.
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And Yemen couldn't cross the straight and do anything to Saudi Arabia.
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So it was completely one sided.
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Now because of drones, they're like, you bomb our airport, we bomb your airport.
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Now that evens the score between smaller countries and bigger countries in a massive way.
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The bigger countries with at least stronger militaries, Israel, Saudi Arabia, America, let's keep it real,
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Russia, all acted with impunity.
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We come kill you, we take Donbass, we take Gaza, we take this, we take that, and there's nothing you could do about it.
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And if you do do anything, it'll be a tiny little thing,
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and then we'll call you a terrorist and murder all your family and city block around you, right?
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But now there is something they can do about it.
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And they just showed you we can hit airports.
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Well, that's not fair, there's civilians there, that's totally out of bounds.
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That leads to the second reason why no one's safe anymore.
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Because there is no more boundaries left, there are no rules left.
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And let's be honest, we're the ones who eviscerated them.
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After World War II, America was a beacon, And this is real, it's not some imaginary thing, it actually happened.
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We set up international institutions, and we set up the idea of war crimes and human rights. So why?
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So we wouldn't have to firebomb Dresden and use nuclear weapons on Hiroshima
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and Nagasaki and the Germans wouldn't do something like the Holocaust, etc. They were excellent rules for really good reason,
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especially after we lived through World War I and World War II.
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Now, as you've seen on all over television and in our media over the last however many years, but certainly the last three,
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you have Israelis and their American servants all over television going, no, no, we shouldn't have any international law.
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We shouldn't have human rights.
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We shouldn't have an international criminal court.
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We shouldn't have any rules at all, why?
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Because Israel wants to be able to murder as many
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Palestinians as possible, make us pay for it, and block all those votes in the United Nations.
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And by the way, why do you think you heard all the anti -United Nations propaganda all these years?
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Because they keep introducing resolutions against Israel.
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So Israel paid their politicians
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and the media here in America to try to destroy the United Nations so the world couldn't work together anymore.
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And guess what, that's where we are now, congratulations.
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Oops, it turns out now that we can't work together anymore, there's no one to protect anyone.
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And so now I believe that Yemen, and this is super bold, and no one else believes this.
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But I believe Yemen actually can cross the strait, the Houthis can, Ansar Allah, and get into Saudi Arabia proper.
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Yeah.
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And do a lot of damage there, there.
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Because what I know that you guys might not know is that the Saudi military is fraudulent.
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It's a bunch of rich princes that couldn't get the plane up in the air.
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In my estimation, I could be wrong.
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Couldn't get it up.
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And so, whereas the Houthis are hungry, literally, and they're poor and they got nothing to lose.
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The Saudis are rich, fat cats sitting there thinking, we got this, we got America on our side.
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We have Israel on our side.
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We're invincible.
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Come to find out, they're not invincible.
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They're very, very vincible.
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So now guys, why in the world is there a silver lining here?
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Well, if you're now worried that you might get hurt, that things are now reciprocal.
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You are used to hitting their airports 79 times with no consequences.
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All of a sudden they hit your airport once and you're in your feelings about it.
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And which I get and you should be and I hate that they kill those civilians.
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Yes.
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But I also hated when you killed their civilians when you hit their airport hundreds of times.
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I mean, how many hundreds of thousands of people, children have died in Yemen thanks to the famine
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that was caused from the previous round of fighting between the Houthis and the Saudi back coalition.
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Let alone what the horrors that the UAE have done in Sudan, the horrors that Israel has done in Gaza,
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West Bank, Lebanon, we can keep going all day on that one.
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So the Israelis will be last
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because they have all of the defensive missiles of the world will be united to protect their most precious citizens,
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which are much more valuable than the rest of us.
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So and they're now in full late stage fascism, so they'll be last.
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But every other country is gonna go,
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I'm not sure we should start the next war because because I'm not sure we could win the next war.
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And it turns out it now has a cost on us.
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Yes.
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And so they might be a little bit more reluctant to start the next one.
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I hope you're right.
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Now, in the meantime, all of this fighting between Ansar Allah
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and the Saudis is taking place with the backdrop of the World Petroleum Congress taking place in Saudi Arabia.
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Now, only the Saudis are taking part in it.
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So for instance, executives from BP are not going to Saudi Arabia for this for obvious reasons.
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But - Because they don't want to die?
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They don't want to die, exactly.
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Look, the impact that this is having, not just on Saudi Arabia, but on energy prices is very real.
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And we're already dealing with a barrel of crude above $100 a barrel.
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This morning it was at 106.
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And so it's only gonna get worse as the war against Iran continues to spread in the Middle East.
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Whether combat operations resume in Iran before or after US
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and Israeli elections doesn't really matter much for Ansar Allah or the Houthis in Yemen, who continue to spank the hell out of the Saudis.
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Now, the Saudis started this, they were enjoying a ceasefire.
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And then last July,
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they decided to strike Ansar Allah as they were coming back home from the funeral for Khamenei in Iran.
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And of course, the Houthis are gonna respond to that, and they have responded by publicly humiliating the Saudis,
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especially MBS, Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince.
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Man, his cheeks are so red, you think he's been watching sadistic war porn.
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It's amazing, it really is.
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So let's get to the details on what's going on right now.
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So Brett Erickson, great follow on X.
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He's following this issue in particular and doing a really good job updating everyone about it.
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He says, breaking, just released statement from Ansarallah, the Houthis announced that they have again struck the King Khalid Airport in Riyadh.
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This is a separate announcement from the confirmed strike yesterday that also saw strikes on a refinery in Riyadh.
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And most notably, the Aramco headquarters.
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This now marks the fourth day in a row that Ansarallah has struck the King Khalid Airport support.
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So that's a big deal.
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And remember, one of our biggest issues, yes, is the Strait of Hormuz.
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That is true.
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But one of the bigger issues at this point is
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that we have a shortage of diesel because of refineries that keep getting destroyed in war,
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both in Middle East wars and also in the war against Ukraine and Russia.
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And so you take crude oil and you refine it into diesel.
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If you don't have the refineries, you can't refine the crude oil into diesel.
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So this is bad news for everyone, but it's especially bad news for Saudi Arabia,
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which made a huge mistake by reigniting this war with the Houthis.
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So the Houthis have also struck the Saudi Aramco headquarters.
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I wanted to give you a few more details about that.
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A Saudi Aramco administrative building had been targeted, leading to a limited fire.
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Sounds like it's not a big deal, but it actually is.
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The building houses, the office of the company's chief executive, as well as its oil supply planning and scheduling department,
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and suffered extensive damage after the missile strike caused a fire
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that spread to multiple floors and led parts of the roof to collapse.
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There's a very real question about whether Mohammed bin Salman will have any power after all of this is said and done.
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Let me continue, the Houthis said they targeted Aramco in Dahran in retaliation for Saudi attacks on its territory in Yemen.
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The group said it would continue to target
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Saudi energy facilities and airports and warned civilians to stay away.
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And sure enough, the Saudi -led coalition said earlier Tuesday that it targeted the Yemen petroleum companies,
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Al Shabaha fuel depot held by the Houthis.
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So all of the strikes that you saw by the Houthis recently were in retaliation for that Saudi strike.
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I think we're living in an era where these nation states, these countries don't fully understand what their vulnerabilities and weaknesses are.
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There's a lot of ego.
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And it's the type of ego that I think even persuaded me at one point to think,
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well, I mean, the Saudi -backed coalition will crush Ansarallah.
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I mean, you've got the US military hardware, we've sold them so much of it,
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how could, but they don't know how to use it, it seems like.
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And not only that, they are out of interceptors.
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So if you're out of interceptors, what are you doing carrying out additional strikes against Ansarallah?
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It makes no sense.
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Ansarallah is also making some serious territorial advancements in Yemen.
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And I think it's important for us all to know about that because the way US media talks about the Houthis,
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you would think it's just like this tiny, irrelevant rebel group in Yemen.
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But no, there are a lot more than that.
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Let's take a look at some of the footage with our good friend Ryan Grimm narrating.
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The Houthis have encircled Thais.
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The Houthis are the primary power in the Ansarallah coalition.
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So right now you effectively have Yemen split between
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and what you're seeing here is the kind of the advancement that the Ansarallah military capacity has taken.
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There's been some debate online about that clip that you just saw whether
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that tank was hitting a mine
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or whether the Houthis are able to kind of hit moving vehicles by mortar at this point.
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It does seem like there have been some incredible shots.
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So this is Western Thais.
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So Ansar Allah now controls the entrance to Western Thais effectively just a matter of time until they take the last city,
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which was one of the kind of lone holdouts that is not Aden.
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So roughly something like 70 % of the Yemeni population lives now in territory controlled by Ansar Allah.
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So that's the reality on the ground in Yemen.
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And we shouldn't be surprised to see more energy shortages
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and economic pain as a result of all of this warfare and chaos that make no mistake about it, Israel drove the region into.
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And I want you guys to think about that.
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Every time you fill your tank, every time you have difficulty paying your gas bill to keep your home warm
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or whatever type of fuel you need to keep your home warm.
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Just remember Israel did this with the help of the United States.
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It's just so they can expand their empire.
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That's all this is, that's all this is.
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Iran was never a threat to the United States.
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Iran didn't have the capacity, the capability to even hit the United States with a missile.
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They weren't building nuclear weapons.
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Everyone knows that that whole argument is a sham, a total lie to goad
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Americans and to supporting a war that would harm them and potentially destroy their country economically.
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That's where we're at.
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So I want you to remember Israel did this and then ask yourself, do we really want to be aligned with them?
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Are they really our friends?
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Because I don't think they are.
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Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings.
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WortAusspracheBedeutung
missile Substantiv/ˈmɪs.aɪl/Geschoss, Fluggeschoss
drone Substantiv/dɹoʊn/Drohne
coalition Substantiv/koʊ.əˈlɪʃ.ən/Koalition
strait Substantiv/stɹeɪt/Meerenge, Enge
diesel Substantiv/ˈdisəl/Diesel
crude Adjektiv/kɹuːd/roh
retaliation Substantiv/ɹɪˌtæl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/Vergeltung
horror Substantiv/ˈhɒɹ.ə/Entsetzen, Schrecken
funeral Substantiv/ˈfju.nəɹ.əl/Bestattung, Beerdigung
headquarters Substantiv/ˈhɛdˌk(w)ɔɹ.tɚz/Hauptquartier
footage Substantiv/ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/Filmmaterial, Filmmeter
terminal Substantiv/ˈtɚmɪnəl/Terminal
vessel Substantiv/ˈvɛsəl/Schiff, Boot
wound Substantiv/ˈwund/Wunde, Verletzung
civilian Substantiv/sɪˈvɪl.jən/Zivilist, Zivilistin

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WortAusspracheBedeutung
carry out Verb/ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/raus tragen
set up Verb/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/aufbauen, für den Einsatz vorbereiten
turn out Verbsich herausstellen als/dass, sich erweisen als
come back Verbzurückkommen, zurückkehren
find out Verbherausfinden, erfahren
work out Verb/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ausrechnen

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  • I mean, they're doing it right now.
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  • We shouldn't have human rights.
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  • Are they really our friends?

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Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sacheones who broke · ones who eviscerated

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  • Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: coalition /koʊ.əˈlɪʃ.ən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, retaliation /ɹɪˌtæl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/, shortage /ˈʃɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ/, transition /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/
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  • /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): headquarters /ˈhɛdˌk(w)ɔɹ.tɚz/, wound /ˈwund/, warfare /ˈwɔɹfɛɹ/, whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, hardware /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/
  • Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: civilians /sɪˈvɪl.jənz/, crude /kɹuːd/, headquarters /ˈhɛdˌk(w)ɔɹ.tɚz/, footage /ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/, wound /ˈwund/
  • /æ/ — offener als „ä“: retaliation /ɹɪˌtæl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/, collapse /kəˈlæps/, barrel /ˈbæɹəl/, advancement /ædˈvæns.mənt/, transition /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/

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