PREVIEW: From a longer conversation later today, John Bolton asks and answers the logical question, "Why aren't the Saudis participating in the defense of Red Sea shipping from the missile and drone attacks by the ant-Saudi, pro-Iran Houthis?"
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:27.0 | This is John Bachelor. |
| 0:29.0 | Conversation with John Bolton, former National Security Advisor, |
| 0:33.0 | former Ambassador to the United Nations, |
| 0:35.0 | about the Huthies, making it extremely expensive to travel |
| 0:40.0 | through the Red Sea, and many are not. |
| 0:42.0 | The U.S. is responding with its allies? Is that enough? |
| 0:46.7 | John asks and answers the question, why are the Huthies preventing shipping or blocking shipping and making threats and yet Saudi Arabia is not participating in the defense of shipping. |
| 0:59.0 | This is the oil-rich Persian Gulf. |
| 1:03.0 | John has a very careful and complex answer |
| 1:06.8 | about the Saudis and their relationship |
| 1:08.7 | with the United States these last years. |
| 1:11.2 | Here's John. Well, that's exactly right. |
| 1:14.0 | And in the case of even our friends in Saudi Arabia, one reason that they're so irate |
| 1:19.6 | about the Biden administration's failure, I mean, at this point, still rejecting joining |
| 1:25.0 | a coalition force to escort vessels through the Red Sea, |
| 1:28.0 | which I don't think will work if the Hooties don't think |
| 1:30.6 | they face retaliation, is remember remember both in the Obama administration |
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