The urgent diplomatic meetings that took place today in Washington revealed a fundamental shift that touches the depth of the Saudi crisis on the western coast.
Follow-ups — Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
At a time when decision-makers in Riyadh were betting on activating the strategic defense agreement signed with Washington to extract direct American military intervention that protects the energy transport lines via the port of Yanbu, the results of the talks showed that the agreement was designed only for transferring technology and supplying weapon systems, and lacks any text that obligates the American administration to direct combat or carrying out airstrikes to break the maritime siege.
This strategic discovery placed the Kingdom in an exposed confrontation with the repercussions of the maritime and field escalation; as Riyadh realized that the depletion of the air defense stockpile and the bombing of vital facilities will not be treated with urgent requests for support, especially with the long time frame for supplying the supposed shipments of missiles and military equipment.
Amid the absence of Western protection and the continuation of risks to the export lines and tankers, Riyadh was forced to open alternative tracks, among them putting forward proposals for a temporary calm or a two-week truce to avoid the worsening of the logistical bottleneck. These data prove that Riyadh has come to realize that relying on verbal external guarantees is no longer sufficient to stop the losses of economic attrition in the Red Sea, which forces it to bear the consequences of the maritime confrontation on its own with limited political options.
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