572. Trump’s Next Middle East Crisis and Reform’s £72m Megadonation
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How is the Houthi seizure of the Red Sea exposing the failures of Trump’s Iran strategy?
In the past week, Donald Trump has backed to United Ireland whilst also publicly blaming President Zelensky for rising fuel prices. Now there was a time when an American president Doing this would have triggered two separate diplomatic earthquakes. But we're now so used to Donald Trump's verbal diarrhea that both passed almost as soon as they arrived. Meanwhile, the story that actually deserved his attention kept getting worse. The Houthis now have missiles that can reach Israel, and this week they seized the narrow gap at the mouth of the Red Sea. So now, with Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz and their friends, the Houthis, in charge. Of this one, it is another huge setback to Trump's objectives and to the price of oil.
Saudi Arabia asked Washington for military help. Trump said no. Instead, the leader of the free world spent the weekend. watching golf. So does anyone, Trump included, actually understand the significance of what's just happened? This episode is powered by Fuse Energy. One hundred pounds, that is what one message to a friend could earn for you.
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What impact does the Red Sea blockage have on global oil flows and Saudi Arabia’s pipeline plans?
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Why did Saudi Arabia’s request for US military aid get a ‘no’ from Trump?
Welcome to Dresses Policy. I'm Yasta Campbell. And with me, Rory Stewart. So, Hootiz in Yemen, AI, Nigel Farage, getting loads and loads and loads of money. Let's start with the Hooties, because I I think you said at the end of Question Time with their Millerband, this has been underreported. It's it's like everything that's big news these days, it sort of gets talked about for half a day and then it moves on. I think this is. Massive. And I also think it's a further indication of the catastrophe of the initial decision. It's
Completely staggering story. So very quick reminder of what happens. So the Houthi started really in the nineteen nineties as an obscure cult in the mountains of Yemen. And if you'd been covering the story back in the nineties, you would have thought these are people in in sandals with Kalashikovs who don't really matter in world events. Fast forward to today, this is a group. In Yemen with ballistic missiles which can strike Israel and Dubai, which have been accessing the latest AI models, the US companies are reporting on this, and which now have expanded forward and seized the key gap to the entrance to the Red Sea.
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