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Beau says:
Recent airstrikes by multiple countries in response to Houthi strikes on shipping in the Red Sea may lead to regional conflict, influenced by Iran's perception, with limited ground involvement expected.
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Analysis of potential humanitarian impacts and calls for peaceful resolutions in the region.
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Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bo again.
So today we are going to talk about the United States,
Canada, Australia, Bahrain, the Red Sea,
and what's going on, why it's happening.
We're gonna run through the dynamic again.
We talked about this a few days ago
and said that the oar was what just happened.
So we're just gonna kinda remind everybody
of what's going on.
Okay, so if you missed the news, a few days ago, maybe a week ago, a group of nations
put out a statement basically telling the Houthi leadership, which is a group within
Yemen, to stop hitting international shipping, or said the or was going to be airstrikes
and substantial ones.
airstrikes, pretty substantial ones, just occurred. They were conducted by, from
what I can tell so far, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Bahrain. Okay, so
why did the airstrikes happen? Because the Houthi leadership was ordering
strikes on shipping in the Red Sea. Why was the Houthi leadership ordering
strikes on shipping in the Red Sea? Their goal was to put pressure on Israel
to allow more aid into Gaza. That's the dynamic. The strikes that occurred, pretty
comprehensive. This was not a small response, it's a pretty big one. It's
probably not going to deter the Houthi leadership. Odds are they're going to
continue the course of action they're on. So does this mean that this is it? This
is going to be the spark that takes it to a regional level and spreads that
conflict? It's possible, but as with many things, it depends on how Iran perceives
it. The Houthi faction, they're not a proxy of Iran. That term gets thrown out
a lot, but they're really not, but they're closely aligned. And Iran, who
recently actually sent a ship into the region, they may view this as yet
another one of their close allies being hit. So if Iran views this as aggression
towards them it might spread. If they don't there's probably going to be a
back-and-forth between this group of nations and the Houthi faction. How big
it gets we don't know yet. My guess given Biden's posture this isn't
something that would involve boots on the ground with the exception of maybe
some very light footprint special operations stuff that we would probably
never know about anyway. It's probably going to be it's probably going to be
tomahawks and airstrikes would be my guess. The likelihood of the Houthi
faction backing down, it doesn't seem high. They've been around a while. They
are pretty determined and they have publicly set this course. It is unlikely
that they're going to deviate much from it. Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have
Have a good day.
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