Royal Saudi Air Force

So I'm sorry, I'm trying to get through this as quickly as possible.

And finally, the Houthis have shot down an AH-6 Little Bird attack helicopter of the Saudi Air Force killing two pilots, which was flying a reconnaissance flight out of Najran Air Base along the Yemeni borders.

The Houthis have video of this being shot down.

They have misidentified this as an AH-64 Apache.

Mm.

Which direction is it going? Is it gonna go south over Saudi Arabia and start tanking in, you know, the entire Saudi Air Force, or is it gonna go east into the Western Arabian Gulf and start tanking for strikes going into Iran? These are the two questions.

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What do you think is the likely of-

They have recently encircled the city of Tiaz, which is in southwest Yemen, near the Red Sea port city of Mocha.

And, of course, this is amid a very high-intensity counteroffensive from the Yemeni government that is being supported directly by the Saudi Air Force.

And the Houthis are pledging more attacks in Riyadh, more attacks against energy infrastructure, more attacks against airports specifically.

The Saudis, of course, are vowing retaliation.

And I was like, yes, he did.

That was the worst thing he did in his first term was he backed the Saudis, not only facilitated it, but assisted with a genocide in Yemen, conducted and facilitated and partially conducted by the US military and with the Saudi Air Force helping at, like an absolute genocide.

And that is the worst thing Donald Trump did in his first year.

By the way, it was a continuation of Obama's war.

Of course, we've also described Saudi Arabia's fleet of combat aircraft, which should, in theory, be able to help fill the gap.

But the Royal Saudi Air Force is badly overstretched right now because even though Riyadh is facing serious problems with homeland defense, it's also trying to assist Yemeni forces in fighting the Houthis.

Saudi aircraft are having to launch dozens of strikes each day, and while the country's air force has plenty of combat jets, it doesn't have the ability to keep dozens of those jets in the sky all day, every day.

There is a legitimate argument that Riyadh should consider scaling down its air operations over Yemen to protect its own homeland, and maybe, if Saudi war planners are really optimistic, to convince the Houthis that Riyadh isn't a threat worth prioritizing.

And a real blow, uh, struck to Saudi Arabia's prestige as a regional power.

Now, the Saudi Air Force responded with large scale attacks on Sana'a and the airport there.

So we're having a major escalation, and this escalation is between the... right now, the most powerful member of the Iranian bloc outside of Iran itself, and that is the Houthis.

Because Hezbollah is a shadow of its former self, very, very badly damaged.