🇺🇸🇾🇪 Washington met the Houthis face to face in Oman and cut a deal that leaves only Saudi ships as targets, the same day the Houthis shot down a Saudi F-15
Reuters says American officials sat across from the Houthis in Oman and came out with terms.
The Houthis won't touch any ship except Saudi ones, not even Israeli, and in return Washington won't bomb them. Within hours, a Saudi F-15 was in pieces on the ground, downed by a Yemeni-made air defense system.
Riyadh signed a defense pact with Pakistan and Turkey this summer. Larry Johnson has advice for its lawyers:
"they should have read the fine print, get better lawyers"
The arithmetic behind Washington's choice is brutal.
One night over Jordan cost around 80 Patriot and THAAD interceptors, about what a week of the war consumed at its peak, and nobody can build them faster than two years.
America can't shield Saudi Arabia because it can barely shield itself.
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