Ben Rhodes

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Pod Save the World · Xi’s Just Not That Into You · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

kind of summed up the insanity of American post 9-11 foreign policy. matched

And the reality is like what needs to happen with the Houthis, as with Iran, is a negotiation about the future of Yemen. matched

Like we have to accept and the Saudis have to accept that these people are not just like going to go away or surrender. matched

They live in Yemen. matched

They want some say over their lives, whether we like that or not. matched

And, you know, unless we want this country to be a permanent humanitarian disaster in which there's periodic bombing campaigns and offenses and, you know, ceasefires that are routinely violated, like we need to negotiate something in Yemen, just like we need to negotiate something with Iranians. matched

There's not a military solution to these problems. matched

And, you know, 25 years after 9-11, like that should be apparent to us. matched

It's a sign that they're losing. matched

It's a sign that they are adapting to a world in which Iran is quite likely, maybe in partnership with Oman, to extract revenue from the Strait of Hormuz. matched

So they can talk tough, but their actions tell a different story, that they're adjusting to a reality created entirely by their war. matched

This was not a problem before the war. matched

The other thing is, I'm not even sure that it's effective because the Saudi pipeline, that was another way to get energy out of the region to global markets, has been bombed and taken offline by the Houthis and other Iranian proxies. matched

So it's not as if we stay in this kind of forever war they were in with Iran. matched

It's not as if they couldn't do some damage to other infrastructure that is built to try to get oil and gas out of there from some other route. matched

Russian elections are no surprise. matched

I have to say, like, I was alarmed by some of the messages out of Europe. matched

Me too. matched

gathered all the potential presidential candidates in the next French election, their parties, to kind of brief them. matched

Kind of an extraordinary show of like, this is a national issue, national emergency. matched

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