The Collapse of Guarantees and Riyadh’s Isolation… Diplomatic Incapacity Brings Down the Coalition’s Bets

Geopolitical and diplomatic data issued today, Tuesday, affirm the incapacity of international alliances and Western support to provide real protection for the Kingdom or secure its oil and maritime supply lines.

Follow-ups — Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:

This comes as Sana’a tightens its grip on the artery of navigation in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait; all Saudi bets on the military power of international partners to neutralize the maritime danger have dissipated, which has brought down the pressure cards on which Riyadh had been leaning for years.

The navigation crisis imposed a sharp shift in the ordering of priorities; as it became clear to Riyadh that concluding security agreements and understandings with regional or international allies will not bring safety to shipping and oil derivatives transport companies as long as Sana’a’s will remains the governing factor of the navigation course. This diplomatic predicament showed the Saudi leadership in the position of the strategically isolated, as it has become trapped between Washington’s demands for field escalation, and the reality that imposes total submission to Sana’a’s conditions to address the roots of the economic strangulation.

The collapse of the effectiveness of external guarantees and the blockage of the political horizon before Riyadh place Saudi diplomacy in the narrowest corners of attrition; as there no longer remains for Riyadh any path out of this isolation except to bypass all intermediary powers and submit directly to Sana’a’s sovereign demands to end the aggression and lift the comprehensive siege on Yemen.