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The speaker says Iran and Saudi Arabia fought three proxy or shadow wars in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
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The speaker says Iran and Saudi Arabia fought three proxy or shadow wars in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
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The speaker treats Yemen as the proxy war that directly threatened Saudi Arabia because the Houthis could align with Iran on Saudi Arabia's border.
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The speaker says Saudi Arabia launched a large Yemen invasion backed by advanced U.S. weapons, a broad coalition, and a shock-and-awe strategy under Operation Decisive Storm.
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The speaker concludes that Saudi Arabia lost the Yemen war because the Houthis could inflict massive economic damage on Saudi Arabia.
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The speaker says the Yemen war taught Saudi Arabia three lessons: defeating local enemies requires defeating Iran, the Saudi economy is extremely vulnerable, and Saudi Arabia needs America to fight Iran for it.
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The speaker says Qasem Soleimani was the second most powerful man in Iran after the supreme leader and was responsible for Iran's Iraq, Syria, and Yemen policies, making him Saudi Arabia's public enemy number one.
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"So for example, in Israel, there are two groups opposing Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah. And they're both financed and supported politically by Iran. And..."
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"And it could do so because two -thirds of the population were Shias. And therefore, they had affinity with Iran. And a third were..."
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"...war, Iran won as well. Now, there's another proxy war in Yemen, okay? And it started in 2016. So, the wars in Iraq and..."
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"They also had a coalition of about 30 nations, including Egypt and the UAE. Saudi Arabia named this operation Decisive Storm, right? Which sounds..."
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"And guess what, guys? It's really, really easy to blow up oil fields. Okay? So, that's what the Houthis were doing. They were sending,..."
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"The first thing it learned is that if it wants to defeat their enemies, the Houthis, the Syrians, and the Iraqis, they also need..."
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"So, MBS was looking very good. But then, in 2018, he did something that scared the world. Okay? MBS had, was a visionary. He..."
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"...policies in the Iraq war, the Syria war, and in the Yemen war. So, from the perspective of Saudi Arabia, Qassam Soleimani is public..."
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"...support their beliefs, including here in Lebanon, Hezbollah, including here in Yemen, the Houthis, and of course, in Palestine, Hamas. And before, Syria was..."
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"...Israel project covers all of this region here from Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Oman."
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"...Taliban then they spent 10 years trying to tame ansarala in Yemen they they had to they had to give up they had to..."
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"...against all of Iran's proxies, including Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen. So as you can see, this is basically a complete U.S. surrender..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Iran moved from religion and oil into proxy war, exposed the kingdom's fragile infrastructure, and made a Trump-led America the weapon Saudi...
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