(Don't) Keep Passing the Open Windows

Houthi attacks cataylze détente between Europe-Saudi Arabia, China-US

Whenever a door closes, a window opens. Sometimes more than one.

The West now finds itself fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, a group Saudi Arabia was fending off using Western weaponry for years. After complaining that the Saudis were also killing Yemeni civilians, the West tried to trim its arm shipments to Riyadh. Now, the West is having to…