Military Analyst: Trump showing strength toward Houthis

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00:00The strikes come as Washington really ramps up sanctions pressure on Iran.

00:05Are these latest strikes on the Houthis America's way of pressuring Iran into these nuclear discussions?

00:13I've been watching the attacks on the Houthis for quite some time and I think

00:17originally US military presence there was also a coalition of the willing

00:22of some British warships out there and the like and all of that was originally designed

00:28to deter the Houthis because quite frankly the Houthis have no military capability to match that

00:34or the US or any of the western powers but that deterrence value didn't work. The next phase

00:40is degrade and that's been the strategy of the west is trying to degrade the Houthis because

00:45the next stage up from that would be destroyed and the bluntly the only way you're going to be

00:49able to destroy the Houthis is a ground invasion and there's been no appetite whatsoever from the

00:54west to do that. Quite frankly Saudi Arabia is trying to get some sort of truce with the Houthis

01:01trying to build a bit of stability and I suspect at the moment everybody's just saying I'm trying

01:05to play this slightly long because if it's all linked to Hamas and Gaza ultimately you want that

01:12ceasefire to prevail and you don't want to see things escalating elsewhere so I think what we're

01:17seeing is President Trump's new administration big stick we're serious about this and multiple

01:23strikes and show the Houthis if they do try to intimidate shipping they're going to get a bloody

01:29nose or worse there's going to be some mass casualties and a major dent from a major superpower.