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Yemen capturing a ship in the Red Sea may turn out to be the most significant development in the war so far. (nitter.net)

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[–] yang_wenli@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Major issue for the US is the Arab world reconciling with Iran. This situation undoes the past nearly 50 years of containment. Iran and it's proxies are now effectively free to do as they please and Saudia Arabia will turn a blind eye.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think that's the biggest recent geopolitical development in the region as well. China managed to pull off a masterful geopolitical achievement brokering normalization of relations between the Saudis and Iran.

[–] yang_wenli@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Blinken is shaking his head. Gonna go down as another McNamara. All his work undone because US foriegn policy is guided by Weltpolitik as opposed to Realpolitik.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

He looks demoralized and depressed in every recent vid I've seen of him. Project Ukraine is unravelling, Middle East is an absolute disaster, any plans for containing China they might've had are fizzling fast. I think he's starting to realize none of this ends will for this admin or him personally.