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PREVIEW: Colleague Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution comments in this excerpt on the Houthis quandary for the Biden Administration: lifting sanctions and removing the terror gang designation in 2021 and 2022 may have encouraged the Houthis to

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🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: Colleague Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution comments in this excerpt on the Houthis quandary for the Biden Administration: lifting sanctions and removing the terror gang designation in 2021 and 2022 may have encouraged the Houthis to take risks. And now destroying missile sites and not the Houthis command only serves to encourage more Houthi (and Iranian) risk.
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Conversation with Victor Davis Hanson at the Hoover Institution.

0:35.0

This is an excerpt looking at the Huthies and what is to be done.

0:41.0

Victor analyzes it in terms of the beginning of the Biden administration, when the

0:46.2

administration eager to revive the Iran deal of 2015, made concessions not only to the

0:52.4

Iranian regime, but eventually to the

0:54.8

Houthis themselves taking them off the terror list. However, now that the Houthis

0:59.8

are clearly hostile firing into the Red Sea, now that the Iranians are clearly sponsoring the

1:05.0

sponsoring the Houthis and other bad actors in the region.

1:09.0

The Biden administration has lost the levers that it had as Victor describes economic

1:15.3

levers and is using missile strikes to what end? Where is this going and is it effective? Is the Biden administration able to navigate both a conflict in Yemen that threatens worldwide traffic reviving the Iran deal if that is possible.

1:36.6

The war in Gaza, the threat from Hezbollah, and an election year is Victor Davis Hanson on this what appears to be

1:44.4

unsolvable puzzle. No I think what's happening is that when they came into power

1:50.5

John they lifted the sanctions on Iran and gave them a $90 billion windfall. They begged them to go back into the Iran deal with the Iranians interpreted as appeasement.

2:02.8

They lifted the global terrorist label on the Houthis

2:06.1

and that gave them access to financial resources

2:08.8

and Iranian weapons.

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