Military Analyst: Houthis attacked to test Trump

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00:00What is your reaction to John Bolton's analysis of the situation in Yemen?

00:05Yeah, good evening, Liam. It is interesting, he's a very senior diplomat but he was being very diplomatic.

00:12I suspect what we're seeing as well is that this is a new US administration. The previous one had

00:18been taking a fairly robust line with the Houthi rebels and of course since they've started to

00:24attack in the Red Sea again, it was a test of Donald Trump's regime to see if he will be just

00:29as robust. And of course, it has no great surprises, he has been. The USS Harry Truman

00:35is patrolling the Red Sea region, bristling with air power and of course the Houthi rebels have

00:41got no answer to the destructive power of those.