Subject: Re: WHY does Israel have to wait for
Good point about the Chinese Navy. I was going to point out that if we want to confront Iran, this is the time. The Soviets (yeah...Putin has changed them back) and Chinese have their own problems, and likely wouldn't be able to support Iran very much. But China escalate their misbehavior in the South China Sea. I don't think the Soviets have the bandwidth to do anything.

The Houthis are a rebel group that's trying to overthrow the existing Yemeni government, which is supported by Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Gulf states.

So do we then use a proxy in favor of the Yemeni government (do they have a functioning one?)? Give them aid and training to squash the Houthis?