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by woooooo 359 days ago
They were funding the Houthis for what, 10 years before the current fracas? And then the Houthis made peace pretty quickly.

Their big picture strategic posture WAS to try and have a deal with us and normalize, but we've made it clear that we won't have that. Nurturing a bunch of proxies in the region is kind of their only option if they want to have allies.