Saudi Arabia went into Yemen, the UAE stepped aside, and Israel is stuck with a Somaliland Red Sea strategy that has lost its cover! Confused yet? Right, so Saudi Arabia has just enforced a hard boundary in Yemen, and Israel is now stuck with the consequences of its Somaliland move as a result. How’s that then Damo? Well, the UAE has pulled its remaining forces, Riyadh has shut down manoeuvring space in southern Yemen, and Israel is left with fewer places to operate quietly in the Red Sea while insisting Somaliland was just a diplomatic recognition. So this isn’t about one airstrike or one withdrawal. This locks in a bigger problem, where Yemen stops being treated as a flexible proxy zone and starts being treated as a perimeter Saudi Arabia will actively enforce when other people’s security plans begin to press up against it, as the real point of ...