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17 Sept 2025 Conversations with Tyler David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States
“The people that I think are informed about this, see the Houthis as evolving in their aims, and becoming more ambitious and perhaps overreaching, as rising movements have a habit of doing.”
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- 17 Sept 2025
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…How would you model what you think the Houthis want? What’s their strategy, their game, so to speak? That’s a great question. The people that I think are informed about this, see the Houthis as evolving in their aims, and becoming more ambitious and perhaps overreaching, as rising movements have a habit of doing. Right now it seems that they do not want to have any power-sharing in the part of the country that they control. I don’t see how they imagine a unified Yemen with any other political force. I have no idea how they see that. They can’t conquer the rest of Yemen; the rest of Yemen doesn’t seem capable of conquering them, but they don’t seem to be interested in sharing power. It could be the case that they’re concerned with control day-to-day, and they’ll see what other Yemenis come up with in the way of an offer to run the country. To my mind, they don’t really have a clear strategic goal other than staying in power where they are. How optimistic are you about Saudi Arabia?…
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