Dania Thafer

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I still think that the Saudis probably want de-escalation. They don’t want long-term escalation but the Houthis are making it very difficult by not only being a threat to Saudi national security but also a threat to international maritime security,
Military campaigns are determined by objectives: securing Saudi territory and Bab al-Mandab could potentially be limited,
Riyadh probably wants a short, high-intensity campaign that restores deterrence rather than another open-ended Yemen war,
The United States has lost a convenient launchpad, not its underlying strike capability,
If you look at the parties in this agreement, you have Saudi Arabia, which is in the middle of this conflict. But you also have Turkey and Pakistan, who both have relations with Iran and both have relations with the US. So I think it's an extra layer of deterrence, if you will, for Saudi Arabia,
You have a regional power, such as Iran, and then you have a global power, the U.S., putting pressure on Oman,

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