Look at the timing.
The Houthis just blew up the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea, spilling 150,000 barrels of oil—4 times worse than the Exxon Valdez
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Look at the timing.
airplanemechanic
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YOU look at the timing. Is it before or after?
Sanctions against Russia were ordered in March and April of 2014. There all the details here.
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The flexibility remark was 2 years before the sanctions in March, 2012.
SEOUL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was caught on camera on Monday assuring outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he will have "more flexibility" to deal with contentious issues like missile defense after the U.S. presidential election.
Obama, during talks in Seoul, urged Moscow to give him "space" until after the November ballot, and Medvedev said he would relay the message to incoming Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The flexibility remark was 2 years before the sanctions in March, 2012.
SEOUL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was caught on camera on Monday assuring outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he will have "more flexibility" to deal with contentious issues like missile defense after the U.S. presidential election.
Obama, during talks in Seoul, urged Moscow to give him "space" until after the November ballot, and Medvedev said he would relay the message to incoming Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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They would control the Red Sea. Yemen has been a mess since I was a little girl.
The investment of Saudi Arabia in healthcare, education, clean water, food have been huge for 50 years. I was somewhat hopeful in 2000 when I was in Asir. I met several young people who were educated in those colleges built by Saudi and the Emirates. The Saudis had already moved their border villages back 20 kilometers .
One of my classmates, a friend, worked at the French embassy for twenty years. I was also hopeful when they started excavating ruins related to the Queen of Sheba and production of frankincense and myrr. But, tourism is out of the question.
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I think the tie is tenuous at best. Giving them weapons is a problem, but I don't think the Iranians are in control. I just hate to see the Saudis taking heat for this. They and the Emirates have done so much to make life better for the Yemeni people for the past 60 years or so.
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Maybe iran thought they could control the Houthis as they do Hezbollah
But the Houthis seem to have other ideas
This has nothing to do with Biden. The Houthis have been attacking oil tankers in the Red Sea for a decade.
French destroyer rescues 29 mariners from oil tanker stricken in Red Sea attacks by Yemen rebels
A French destroyer rescued 29 mariners from an oil tanker that came under repeated attack from Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, while also destroying a bomb-carrying drone boat in the area.
apnews.com
Hezbollah is organic.. They appeared in the mid 1980s to keep Israel out of Lebanon.
Really gets my goat.. I love Lebanon and the Israelis have flipped their demographic on its head.
The Houthi takeover in Yemen, also known as the September 21 Revolution (by supporters), or 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état (by opponents), was a popular revolution against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi led by the Houthis and their supporters that pushed the Yemeni government from power.
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What? Did you forget the Saudis military intervention in Yemen that has caused thousands of deaths?
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The Houthis attacked the Saudis repeatedly. The Houthis lost against the Egyptians in 1962.
They want to control access to the Red Sea . The Saudis have taken in a million Yemeni refugees and they don't isolate them in refugee camps.
Israel still won't leave Lebanon alone. Ariel Sharon tried to take their rivers like the Litani, Hasbany and Wazamy Rivers.
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Yet thousands of Yemenis died from Saudi intervention.
They continue to bomb Arabia and put Americans at risk. Tell me what you know about Yemen.
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This is a very serious situation for the Houthis
If they continue sinking tankers and other shipping through the Red Sea not even Iran can save them from total destruction
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