Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud

And, um, it appeared in twenty fifteen that the very young Mohammed bin Salman, as he was then, had forgotten that lesson which he has now learned.

And I, I would say that Mohammed bin Salman's strategic decision-making is, is far, far better than a decade ago, helped considerably by a couple of very senior princes, Faisal bin Farhan, who's the foreign minister, and, uh, Khalid bin Bandar, uh, bin Sultan Al Saud, who's the old UK-educated ambassador to London.

The problem is for Saudi Arabia is that it can't just divorce itself from Yemen.

It shares that border.