Yemen’s war has reached Riyadh. Ansar Allah has repeatedly struck the Saudi capital’s main airport in the past week, killing 13 people in the deadliest attack on Saudi soil in over a decade, while Saudi jets pound northern Yemen and the ground offensive Riyadh backs stalls. Ryan Grim talks with Dr. Shireen Al-Adeimi, a Yemeni-American scholar at Michigan State University, and Dr. Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute, a former State Department official who resigned over US support for the genocide in Gaza. They discuss how Ansar Allah turned an 11-year war back on Saudi Arabia, a century of Saudi meddling in Yemen, why MBS is unwilling to walk away, what the war means for Vision 2030, Yemen’s north-south divide, the myth of Ansar Allah as an Iranian proxy, and whether Trump will join the fight.
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00:00 Intro
2:32 How Ansar Allah Is Bringing the War to Saudi Arabia
7:33 A Century of Saudi Intervention in Yemen
12:19 MBS and Washington’s Role in the War
21:53 Why Ansar Allah Is Done With Truces
26:33 Why Saudi Arabia Is Unwilling to Walk Away
30:46 What the War Means for Vision 2030
36:26 Ansar Allah, the South and Yemen’s Ideological Divide
43:46 How the War Could End in Yemen’s South
46:20 The “Iranian Proxy” Myth
55:34 Will Trump Join the War?
58:55 Closing
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