Marib

Thousands and thousands and thousands of square kilometers of territory being, you know, taken by Ansar Allah within a matter of just days.

And now it's looking like the two last major remaining cities, Marib and Aden in the south.

might not even be all that much of a fight because the people there don't really want to fight the majority of them.

They want to enter in some sort of an agreement, a tribal alliance with Ansar Allah from Sana'a.

And I watched this for two years.

For two years between 2020 and 2022, the Houthis sent extraordinary resources, extraordinary manpower, thousands, maybe tens of thousands over the course of two years, maybe more than that, young men to die in trenches trying to take Marib and sort of on the cusp of the desert in Yemen.

Marib is really important because that's like, Marib and Taiz are the two big, parts of North Yemen.

The only two big parts of now, after the fall of this third piece by the Bab al-Mandeb, the only parts of North Yemen as it was before 1990 that Houthis do not control are Taiz and Marib.

Marib is also the home of Yemen's small oil industry.

So tremendously strategically important.

For two years, the Houthis died in extraordinary amounts.

So it's hard to use comparisons like that.

Those gains have included taking control of the remainder of Yemen's Red Sea coast and the territory on the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

They continue to make gains also, and this isn't in the article, but I've been doing research elsewhere, All sorts of gains around Taiz, all sorts of gains around Marib, zero PLC gains anywhere.

So Ansar Allah on the ground, very, very successful, and so much so that they're openly willing to threaten the U.S., try to keep them out of the conflict, because it's clear that without any outside intervention, they're going to be able to win this thing.

That is the situation in Yemen.

You know, as you're listening to this show, there may be reports of new long-range Saudi drones and new long-range Saudi warplanes being taken down.

And all of this is happening whilst Aramco and the Saudi Arabian Kingdom, the government, is moving at extraordinary speeds, most likely from pressure by their partners in Asia and the Orient, from China, pressure from the United States to ease up on the market situation by opening the Al-Qaik-Yanbu pipeline that massive 1200 kilometer pipeline stemming from the persian gulf all the way to the red sea apparently the pipeline is now open again it's been fixed you know the the breach has been sealed and mind you the the reason it was even shut down was because it was allegedly one drone somewhere from iraq according to the saudi arabian news that strike the struck the pipeline if the The war continues.

And if Saudi Arabia, and mind you, they haven't slowed down, if they continue to kill Yemeni civilians, if they continue to carry out these airstrikes over Sana'a, over Hodeidah, over these towns in Marib or Nita'iz, and killing essentially not just Ansar Allah militiamen, but also civilians...

I have no doubt that the Ansar Allah will be sending more ballistic missiles and potentially long-range drones at this pipeline to shut it down, maybe indefinitely.

Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the movement's leader, dismissed the claim as, quote, slander and fabrication, end quote.

The Houthis also claimed on Wednesday that they had shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet over Yemen's Marib province last week using a locally made missile.

The hostilities are most dangerous, are the most dangerous since the 2022 truce frayed.

Fighting reignited in July after the Houthis accused Saudi Arabia of bombing Sana'a's airport to prevent an Iranian aircraft from landing.

Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the movement's leader, dismissed the claim as, quote, slander and fabrication, end quote.

The Houthis also claimed on Wednesday that they had shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet over Yemen's Marib province last week using a locally made missile.

The hostilities are most dangerous, are the most dangerous since the 2022 truce frayed.

Fighting reignited in July after the Houthis accused Saudi Arabia of bombing Sana'a's airport to prevent an Iranian aircraft from landing.

Over the previous 24-hour period, Saudi warplanes launched 19 airstrikes using F-15 and Typhoon aircraft, taking off from Qamis Musait and Taif airbases.

These strikes targeted the governorates of Taif, Al-Jawf, and Marib, resulting in martyrs and wounded, including children and wounded, Sari said.

The Guardian reported that up to 169 people, including fighters and civilians, have been killed in Yemen over the past three days due to strikes and fighting on the ground.

Ansar law continues to make advances on the ground in southwest Yemen following its lightning offensive that involved capturing the rest of Yemen's Red Sea coast and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.