The Houthis look at the Iran war, and they perceive Iran as winning, and this emboldened them.
Iran has been supplying the Houthis with arms high in quantity and quality. The Houthis are well organized while their opposition is divided and not as well armed.
The Houthis are hitting Saudi Arabia hard and gas prices are going up as a result.
WHERE IS TURKEY AND PAKISTAN!? SAUDI ARABIA’S NEW ALLIES!!!
India could have stretched from Yemen to Burma. Some of the divisions led to mass refugees and massacres. Some of these nationalisms and national identities were relatively new. The actual history of much of this, is underplayed in all countries involved.
Over much time, the Indus Valley Civilization deforested their area. Without the vegetation, floods got much worse, leading to the decline and fall of their civilization.
The ships and crews that Trump is blockading are not just Iranian ships and crews. Is the US going to steal or sink foreign ships? What if Pakistani or Chinese military vessels escort their ships? Will the US start a war with these countries to enforce the blockade? Ships’ crews can lock themselves in the bridge and engine rooms, which will stop boarders from controlling the ship, what will the US do then?
“Violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi and in the country’s north left at least 22 people dead and more than 120 others injured as demonstrators supportive of the Iranian government attempted to storm a U.S. Consulate on Sunday
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The violence came after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, killing its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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In addition, 12 people were killed and over 80 wounded in clashes with police in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region when thousands of protesters angered by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran attacked the offices of the U.N. Military Observer Group and the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP)”
A group in Pakistan with ties to the Taliban attacked Pakistan and want to give Pakistani territories to Afghanistan. Afghanistan doesn’t recognize the current border, which was drawn by the British and separates ethnic groups. Afghanistan’s other borders also separate groups, including Persians from Persia.