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Yemen has endured 12 years of a Saudi-led campaign backed by the United States, while Sanaa's airspace remains restricted and Riyadh opens its skies to Israeli flights. Answering a blockade with pressure on a vital maritime corridor is self-defense, not unprovoked aggression, and the Red Sea gives Yemenis leverage they otherwise lack. Years of bombing, isolation and relentless economic pressure cannot continue indefinitely without provoking a forceful response.
There is a 20 percent chance that state-based conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia will cause at least 1,000 deaths in a single year before 2070, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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