SAUDI ARABIA IS A GONER.

Saudi Arabia created the Makkah Pact with Turkey and Pakistan.  The three turkeys. I am referring the bird. It is a defence pact - if one turkey is attacked by anyone then the other two turkeys will come to its defence. Well it has become a Dunce Pact. A dunce is a dunggu. Being turkeys, they forgot an important part of the Dunce Pact - there is no official document or agreement to spell out what their Dunce Pact really means. THERE IS NO DOCUMENT.

And now the Houthis have attacked Saudi Arabia. The attack is still on going. Yet neither Turkey nor Pakistan have come to the aid of Saudi Arabia. So the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia called Donald Trump - 'Please sir can you help me?'  Donald Trump said 'Go and ask your Makkah Pact friends to help you'. And that was the end of that. 

Now the Houthis have done something else.  The Houthis have sent their troops to an island called Perim Island or Mayyun Island, smack in the middle of the Bab el Mandeb or BAM. The BAM is the entrance to the Red Sea, to the Suez Canal and to the Gulf of Aqaba and to the Israeli port of Eilat. Look at this map.

The sea passage on either side of Perim Island is only about 12 miles. Less than 20 kilometers. Within short range missiles and longer range artillery.  See map below. 

This means the Houthis have effectively shut down the Bab el Mandeb. But not fully. The Houthis have announced that the Bab el Mandeb is open to all shipping except ships from Saudi Arabia and Israel. Very wrong move.

But this has effectively shut down Saudi Arabia's oil exports through the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean.   Plus that East - West oil pipeline that runs across Saudi Arabia has also been hit by Iranian missiles.  Considering that shipping through the Persian / Arabian Gulf has also not fully recovered Saudi Arabia is suffering serious shutdowns in its oil industry.

These images are from Gunner's Shot YouTube channel. From exporting 8 million to 9 million barrels of oil per day, Saudi oil exports have trickled down to less than 4 million barrels per day. Saudi Arabia is in really deep crap. If this situation persists for just a few months - Saudi Arabia will go bankrupt.

Perim Island is part of Yemen.  The Houthis are Yemenis. But the island is less than 5 square kilometers in size.  It can be easily bombed into the Stone Age.

Here is another map. You can see the Bab al Mandeb. Directly opposite, within spitting distance is Somaliland (in yellow). The Israelis have set up the first permanent Israeli military base outside Israel in Somaliland. They were invited by Somaliland. It is actually the Israelis who now control the entrance to the Bab el mandeb. Saudi Arabia might have to learn some Hebrew. Shalom. 

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