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00:00:33At least 12 people have been killed and
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00:00:46of Shahbas Sharief strongly condemns the hoothi militia's attack on King
00:00:50Khalid international airport in Riyadh calling it serious
00:00:53threat to regional peace and
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00:01:00President Donald Trump condemns attack on Ryan's international airport calling it
00:01:04unacceptable. He says he will soon decide whether to join Saudi
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00:01:13The Saudi Led coalition in Yemen has vowed a firm response to huthi
00:01:17attack a passenger terminal at Riyadh King
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00:01:29A meeting. the federal cabinet is underway in Islamabad with Prime
00:01:33Minister Shahbaz Sharif in the chair. Agenda items are being discussed in the
00:01:41of meeting. of The of United Nations Human Rights officer is
00:01:44India to immediately release people arbitrarily detained
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00:02:31Those are the headlines and now for the news in
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00:02:35in 12 people have been killed and 309 injured an attack
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00:02:42Yemen suthi
00:02:43of claimed to have carried out similar strikes in the hul. The Saudi
00:02:47Civil Aviation authority said the victims were four Saudi and two Bangladeshi
00:02:50nationals while Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Sudan,
00:02:54of Syria and the US, each had one
00:02:56of their citizens killed. Operations at the K Khalid
00:03:00international airport in Riyadh have been
00:03:02of suspended.
00:03:03of of The US embassy said it was aware
00:03:08of of the attacks urging Americans to avoid the area. According to the Saudi Let Coelection, a projectile also fell near King
00:03:12Fahad international airport in them in eastern Saudi Arabia.
00:03:16The attack comes the day after authorities said three Saudis including pilot were
00:03:20killed in two attacks on the airport by the Hutis the day
00:03:23prior. Another three people were killed in Houti attacks
00:03:27on two Saudi airports on sixth. and 7th of
00:03:31of October. of Prime
00:03:35Minister Shahbas Sharif has strongly condemned the heinous attack by the Huti militia
00:03:39onken Khalid international airport in Riyadh expressing
00:03:42of deepest
00:03:42of condolences to the perief families and praying for the swift and full recovery
00:03:46of the injured. In
00:03:48in a post on next, the prime minister said the attacks targeting civilians and
00:03:51critical infrastructure were completely unacceptable and posed
00:03:55serious threat to regional peace and stability. He added that such acts
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00:04:05shabas sharif reaffirmed Pakistan's unvavoring solidarity with the kingdom of Saudi
00:04:09Arabia, its leadership and the brotherly people. he
00:04:13also reiterated Pakistan's steadfast commitment to Saudi Arabia's
00:04:16sovereignty, territorial integrity and
00:04:19of security in accordance with the Makka joint defense agreement and the enduring bonds of
00:04:23brotherhood between the two countries.
00:04:25in a
00:04:26of separate statement, the ministry of foreign affairs also condemned the attack
00:04:29of calling the... of a civilian airport, an act of
00:04:32of terrorism and a grave threat to regional
00:04:34a peace and security. the ministry said Pakistan fully supported the
00:04:38kingdom's legitimate right to defend its territory, protect its people and
00:04:42of safeguard its citizens and the cities and vital infrastructure
00:04:46against all threats and
00:04:47of acts of aggression. the statement called on the hoothi militia to immediately
00:04:51see this attacks and urged the international
00:04:54of community to take a firm and unequivocal stand against acts
00:04:57that endanger innocent lives and undermine regional
00:05:01stability, it added that Pakistan would continue to stand shoulder
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00:05:06a Saudi Arabia, referring its commitment to the kingdom
00:05:09sovereignty, security and defense.
00:05:17US president Donald Trump said that attack on Riyadh International Airport that killed at
00:05:21least dozen people on Saturday was
00:05:24not acceptable. Speaking to reporters Trump said he will be speaking with
00:05:28Saudi Arabia's crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman following the attack by the
00:05:32Yemen's hoothies. Earlier US President Donald Trump said that he
00:05:36would soon decide whether to join Saudi strikes against Sahuis following
00:05:39attack on Riyaz International Airport that killed 12 people. including a US
00:05:43citizen. Trump told reporters at the white house that the United States might join
00:05:47the Saudi strikes against the hoothies, adding
00:05:50that decision would be made soon as Washington
00:05:52had just learned the recent attack and could act quickly.
00:05:56Meanwhile, the US state department condemned the Houti attacks against civilian
00:06:00infrastructure and airports in Saudi Arabia. A state
00:06:03department spokes person told CBS news that it was in close contact with the
00:06:07Saudi partners, adding that the US stood firmly with the kingdom of Saudi
00:06:11Arabia against the hoouti.
00:06:12terrorism.
00:06:18The Saudi Lade coalition in Yemen has vowed to respond firmly to akuthi attack on
00:06:22King Khalid international airport in Riyadh which left people dead and
00:06:26injured. The attack on Saturday targeted a passenger terminal at the
00:06:29airport in Saudi Capital. Coalition spokes person Turki Al Maliki
00:06:33said a statement on X that the assault constitutes a war crime
00:06:37under International Humanitarian law. He described it as heinous
00:06:41act that violates. unitarian principles, values and
00:06:44morals. Al-Maliki stressed that the coalitions joint forces
00:06:48command would form respond firmly to what he called a
00:06:52terrorist attack in accordance with the international humanitarian
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00:07:31Assalomu alaikum and welcome to Perspective. Regional tensions are
00:07:34escalating putting critical infrastructure, maritime security
00:07:38and regional stability at risk. Houti attacks on Saudi Arabia have raised.
00:07:42fresh security concerns, while the strategic mandab straight and the
00:07:46strate of hurmus remains central to wider regional tensions with the
00:07:50US mid-term elections approaching, president Donald
00:07:54Trump is also facing growing political pressure as the Iran
00:07:57conflict disrupts global energy markets and raises
00:08:01questions about the costs and consequences of his
00:08:04policies. How could the evolving security situation
00:08:08affect his party's electoral prospects and shape
00:08:11Washington? next moves: Pakistan has strongly
00:08:15condemned the attacks in Saudi Arabia and reaffirmed its commitment to
00:08:19Saudi sovereinity in security under the Makka joint defense
00:08:23agreement with Saudi Arabia and Turkey. As
00:08:26Islamabad continues to call for peace and
00:08:29deescalation, what is the shifting security
00:08:33landscape mean for the region? In our second
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00:09:12today we have with us Hashamul umesi who is senior advisor
00:09:16on Yemen
00:09:20and on from European Institute of
00:09:24Peace, we also have with us Paul
00:09:27Fridge senior fellow middle east institute Switzerland executive in residence
00:09:31Geneva Center for security policy joining us. A little
00:09:35later on will also have other guests during the course the
00:09:38program. Welcome to the program Hisham.
00:09:43when we look at Babel Mandap,
00:09:45for example, the fact that it's become critical point in this
00:09:48regional, what strategic objectives are
00:09:52the how these sort of pursuing by threatening
00:09:56maritime traffic and of course what it
00:09:59means for this vital international shipping route,
00:10:03corridor, and and what are the implications in your opinion for regional
00:10:07security, and also what it means as far as
00:10:11global... security at
00:10:13this
00:10:18time,
00:10:20tot is want to exert pressure on the red sea on
00:10:23maritime trade. to get this economic and political
00:10:27leverage, they understand very well that the world will only pay attention to
00:10:31them if they make noise outside the border of yemen, yemen has been dubbed for
00:10:35the longest time for the past 12 years the conflict as the forgotten
00:10:38war, and to get some attention to get some
00:10:41recognition and to get that stick
00:10:45ofage, they needed to attack all these ships in the red sea,
00:10:49making that economic impact on global trade, but also
00:10:52threatening regional countries as well. because they ship lot of oil through that
00:10:56straight, so it's critical for their countries, for the
00:11:00stability their countries, and this is one the reasons why they also in the
00:11:04same way are threatening Saudi Arabia the past few
00:11:08weeks by attacking infrastructure within Riyadh, within
00:11:12other parts of Saudi Arabia, attacking aramco, attacking, I remember the
00:11:16electricity grid as well, and they'll continue to do that, because that's how
00:11:20they raised the cost the conflict, they learned that from the Iranians
00:11:23and that's how they kind of
00:11:27create this calculus where they can extract concessions, not just
00:11:31from Saudi, but also from regional and international
00:11:34stakeholders.
00:11:36fair enough, um, we also have with
00:11:39us Paul, but before
00:11:43we go to him, in terms of in terms the huti's
00:11:46actions, Hisham, when we look at you,
00:11:49Yemen's internal conflict and and the political
00:11:52landscape so to speak, how have
00:11:55years of political you know fragmentation,
00:11:59struggle for power, failure to reach a durable settlement
00:12:03enabled the hauties to consolidate their authority and
00:12:06expand their regional ambition,
00:12:10you know, because we know that internally also the situation and the fact that they've
00:12:14been able to do this, how how do you look at that in terms of
00:12:17what's happening now and the internal situation?
00:12:21that's actually an excellent question, this is what i've been saying for the for the... last 10
00:12:25years is that the huties
00:12:29owe their rise to the Iranian support, but also to the fragmentation
00:12:33and the division within Yemen, it's it's an inversal
00:12:37proportional relationship where the weaker the yemini factions
00:12:40are the stronger that the hutis grow, they managed to exploit all those
00:12:44divisions, the instability, the failure the state
00:12:48since since 2010 since the uprisings that accompanied the arab
00:12:52spring and managed to hijack the
00:12:56state and by doing so they entrenched themselves
00:13:00a position of power and throughout the past 10 years the conflict since
00:13:042015 they managed to
00:13:07expand across Yemen moving all the way to the west
00:13:10coast and that's what you hearing a lot of fighting now for instance in Babelmandab in the
00:13:14Red Sea because they want additional territories but they owe that as
00:13:18well because the internal fragmentation and I've
00:13:22always said if you want to defeat the Hut. is you
00:13:26need to unify the yemini factions led by the yemini government because
00:13:29only them can dislodge the hoothis from
00:13:33places like them the central part of yemen but also the capital
00:13:37san there needs to be a concerted effort backed by the regional international
00:13:41community and luckily for the time being you have the saudis back in the yemen
00:13:45government supporting them but ultimately this is a
00:13:48yemeny fight this is not and i remember lot of people
00:13:52trying to pitch it as a saudi versus fight It's not, it
00:13:56never was, it was the Yemenis that wanted to take back the
00:13:59country from the Hitis, but they also needed support from regional partners
00:14:03and our closest neighbor traditionally for the past 100 years have been Saudi Arabia, and
00:14:07that's one the reasons why it was the Saudis that let the
00:14:10coalition that helped attempting to restore
00:14:14the state in 2015, but but where
00:14:18does the how these actually derive
00:14:21authority within Yemen today, when you look at
00:14:24you know the... fact that the main sources their political,
00:14:28financial, military power and and of course,
00:14:31how how do they use that to control territory, you
00:14:35in terms of trying to understand and also the fact that they
00:14:39they are able to somehow sustain their position,
00:14:41right? yep, well
00:14:44one one the important things that lot of people
00:14:46need to understand is that the his did not spring into the scene just in the past 15
00:14:49years, the hutis were there for the past thousand years, we had the
00:14:53imat a monarchy. in yemen for the better part the
00:14:57past 1ous years, which was toppled in the
00:15:001960s. these are remonants of that
00:15:03regime that stayed in the northern part the
00:15:07country, and they managed to build the power over the
00:15:11past 25 years, beginning into the 2000s and in
00:15:152004 they launched an offensive in the north part the
00:15:19country, which led to six consecutive wars between 2004 and
00:15:222009, so the is actually there for hundreds of
00:15:26years, but they managed capitalizing on the
00:15:30instability in 2010, 2011 to expand
00:15:33their influence and exploiting the infighting. between the
00:15:37various factions, tribal and government and military between the
00:15:41period of 2011 and 2015, to jump on the scene, hijack the
00:15:45state, take over the capital, take over other parts of
00:15:49one, two, they also owe their rise because the
00:15:53support that they've gotten extensive support that they've gotten from Iran, they
00:15:56they got in financial support, they've gotten ballistic missiles, they've gotten cruise
00:16:00missiles, they've gotten drones, they've gotten lot of training not just from
00:16:04Iran, they've got a lot of training from Hizbollah as well. "and there's a lot the
00:16:08actually IRGC officers on the ground on the
00:16:12battlefield as commanders directing the
00:16:15war in multiple frontlines in Yemen and that includes
00:16:19Hisballah and IRGC
00:16:21so they're getting lot of support and
00:16:24in terms of question
00:16:27of course they've managed to have that kind of support that then
00:16:31allows them to exert this kind of
00:16:34external influence or extern'. far
00:16:37beyond the territory, how dangerous
00:16:41is it when when this kind of a grouping can
00:16:44happen and and then and then potentially have
00:16:47consequences outside a country's territory
00:16:51when we look at you in the light of this particular instance when we see the
00:16:55houtheis, extremely extremely concerning, you have
00:16:59to remember the past couple years, howthies sank or attacked
00:17:03close to 100 ships and there, you're not talking about the conflict.
00:17:07says
00:17:07it is not contained within the borders of Yemen, you're talking about the conflict had a spillover
00:17:11effect, remember during the Gaza crisis, heuties wanted to
00:17:15jump into the fray trying to pitch themselves as the banguard the Muslim, the
00:17:19Arab nation by attacking also Israel,
00:17:22and beyond that they started attacking ships, tried to extract tols
00:17:26from ships passing through the red sea, they wanted to be seen as regional
00:17:30player that would have say an international politics, so if anything does not
00:17:34go their way, irrespective if it is concerning
00:17:38Yemen or not, they want to exert that political
00:17:41pressure to get this recognition as regional
00:17:45player, and this is one the reasons why they attacked multiple ships from different
00:17:49countries, not just saudis now lately, but in the past they've attacked British ships,
00:17:52they've attacked Dutch ships, they've attacked American ships and all
00:17:56sorts of ships, because they wanted that recognition, and it's extremely
00:18:00difficult and extremely dangerous because at the end the day you're dealing with a
00:18:04militia, so few tolerate that,
00:18:07"you're only postponing yet another bout of conflict where the
00:18:11militia is going to blackmail international community seeking additional
00:18:15concessions and this is why I've always been talking to international partners and regional partners is
00:18:18that you need to address the root the conflict, you need to decisively deal with the hoothies,
00:18:22you cannot keep passing the buck and postponing the issue
00:18:26through temporary ceasefires or non-sustainable
00:18:30agreements that will allow the houties to stay in control,
00:18:34especially when they have control over the means the states and tax. ation and all
00:18:38revenues so in terms the consequences
00:18:42of of this kind of you
00:18:45know a group if one can call it that and and
00:18:48you know of course the kind of exercising of
00:18:52course influence outside the territory what kind of reaction
00:18:56do you overall you expect after what we've seen also and
00:19:00for Yemen also in particular what do you expect in the
00:19:03future unfortunately
00:19:06based on the track record the past three years, there has
00:19:10been some reactions, you've seen the Americans attack the Hutis, you've seen the
00:19:14Europeans create the speed's naval force to protect the ships
00:19:18in the red sea, but there they have always been half hearted
00:19:22measures, they never actually delt a blow to the
00:19:25hoothies, it was always a protective force, it
00:19:29was always
00:19:31um, it's just a bare minimum, they did not deal with the hoothies and
00:19:35dislodging the hoothies, they only... tried to protect some the ships in the red
00:19:39sea while leaving the infrastructure in place, while
00:19:42leaving the huti threat in place, which only
00:19:46means that they're postponing the problem,
00:19:49and come few months the his will come
00:19:53back, raise the bar, demand additional concessions, and
00:19:57this is devastating, and this is what happened with Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia signed an agreement with the
00:20:00hoothis in 2022, hoping to deescalate
00:20:04this way situation, hoping there's going to be calmer
00:20:08heads that will prevail amongst the huti movement, but we warn back
00:20:12at the time is that the hutis are only binding their time to
00:20:15regroup, restock, they will come back
00:20:19and they will ask for additional concessions and that's basically what they did right
00:20:22now,
00:20:26when we look at in terms of you know regional states and
00:20:30their response to the houthi attacks, the threats also
00:20:34against babal mandap, maritime commerce, what combination? of
00:20:37maritime security, deterrence, regional
00:20:40cooperation, political engagement
00:20:43you think could make difference at this point, you're also
00:20:47looking at the Saudi Arabia situation, to to sort
00:20:51of deescalate for things to at
00:20:54least
00:20:55you know sort of what can one say go back to a state
00:20:59of normalcy let's say
00:21:02well okay you need to
00:21:05begin with the cutting or choking the air out
00:21:09the huti means you need to economically kind of basically
00:21:13isolate them one two you cannot just protect the red
00:21:16sea without dislogging the hoothies from multiple ares
00:21:20three, this is a war that cannot be won just by aerial campaign,
00:21:24we've been there done that since 2015 and it did not dislodge the houties, what you
00:21:28need is ground forces to take over the houti controlled
00:21:32areas, you need to limit the power, i've heard lot of arguments
00:21:36the past two days people saying like if they government forces managed to secure the
00:21:40west coast then it's the end to the threat, that is a
00:21:43completely false, huties managed to attack the
00:21:47ships over the past two years when the... did not control
00:21:50b, well beyond uh within from
00:21:54the internal parts of yemen they attack the ships, so you don't need just to
00:21:58secure, you need to dislage the hoothies from the heartland and
00:22:02from places like the capital sal, for as long as
00:22:06people continue to treat the hoothis as a viable political party, we're not getting
00:22:09anywhere, hutis are a militia, they think in mentality of a
00:22:13militia, they're maximalist, they also always
00:22:16come back and raise the bar, if you don't limit... their military
00:22:20power, if you don't have that breaking point where you isolate them, we're
00:22:24not going to get anywhere. how do
00:22:28you in terms the the nexus when we look at Israel in
00:22:32particular, how does it factor in and and how
00:22:35you know the consequences of that nexus
00:22:39itself, do you think that it's been exposed enough? do you expect it to
00:22:43sort of have you know
00:22:44the the ramifications of that for the world, how do you look at that?
00:22:48well, let's refocus that. bit on yemen have
00:22:52had happened over the past three years especially with the the Gaza
00:22:56crisis, the hoti has managed to expos that to their
00:22:58advantage, they've seen how the world
00:23:01failed to act in defending the
00:23:05Palestinians and they use that
00:23:08to recruit fighters on the ground and lot of other factions did the same thing
00:23:12as well, but the is exploited it a very good way bause they have a really good PR
00:23:16machine and they recruitted tens of thousands of fighters.
00:23:21and and trying to position themselves as the strongest member the
00:23:24axis of resistance that is led by Iran and in doing so they
00:23:28managed to also get recruits from across the red sea and build
00:23:32relationships with the shabab in Somalia
00:23:36and they did so by also recruiting people from Syria from Lebanon and
00:23:40in Iraq as well and they built also opened offices even there
00:23:43so they built this regional network on the premise
00:23:47of dealing with Israel. but while having
00:23:51at heart their own objectives, their own max maximalist
00:23:55objectives and expanding their influence not just at the southern tip the peninsula,
00:23:59but regional influence, and they built this huge
00:24:02network of and also arsenal if i may
00:24:06that they could use any given moment, whether it's in regards to
00:24:10Israel or others, and that's what they did over the past month, what they started
00:24:14attacking Saudi Arabia, they didn't attack Israel,
00:24:16they attack Saudi Arabia, but what about you?
00:24:20reports of the delegation, when you look at the US delegation meeting how
00:24:24these and and the effects of that, do you think how
00:24:27credible and and you think that there is a possibility that
00:24:31something will emerge from there also? how do you look at
00:24:34that? well the UN led peace process is still
00:24:38ongoing, yes there's been a lot of multiple impediments
00:24:41and the it's a steep hill
00:24:45to climb especially during escalation so
00:24:48they always try to deescalate. where cooler heads would prevail and
00:24:52they will manage to bring people to the table, unfortunately every
00:24:55time they get to to that point something or the other happens and
00:24:59we're back into fighting mode between the various factions and always it's
00:25:03triggered by the hoothis and this is where we at now for instance, the un
00:25:06envoy delivered his remarks yesterday and he basically
00:25:09said we will continue on the path
00:25:13of uh trying to get a peace process
00:25:17started - ultimate.
00:25:20reconciliation, but right now
00:25:24emotions are high, right now the fighting is still ongoing, right now the dust
00:25:28has not settled, right now all the groups are trying to
00:25:31get as much territory as possible before they eventually move into
00:25:35negotiations, and this is one the questions that lot of people have asked
00:25:38me and they said, do you think government is going to completely
00:25:42obritate the hutis or the is going to be able to completely ablutate government,
00:25:46and i said like that's going to be difficult because you're talking about a complete massacre.
00:25:50'if you want to wipe up
00:25:52the hutis, I don't think that's feasible, and vice
00:25:55versa, the hutis cannot wipe out half the country,
00:25:59eventually inevitably you reach an agreement, but the question'.
00:26:03is when we get to the table who's going to have the upper hand and right
00:26:07now is have leverage and they need to dilute that
00:26:17I want to move on we have with us Paul fritch who is a senior fellow institute
00:26:21switzerland executive and residence geneva center for security policy joining
00:26:25us always a pleasure having you Paul when we look at the
00:26:28midterm elections Iran Hormers and of course you
00:26:32the political cost of this war, how do you look at this? as far as the
00:26:36mid-term elections are concerned, of course the strategic
00:26:40constraint, if one can call it that, as far as Donald Trump
00:26:44administration is concerned, once the the
00:26:48pre-election situation versus the post election situation, how would
00:26:52how do you look at it and and you think it will be a change scenario
00:26:56considering what we know about the position of of you
00:27:00know at this time as far as the Donald Trump administration is
00:27:03concerned? yes, well, I think
00:27:07the strategic constraint on the
00:27:10president is uh, not so much the midterms
00:27:14themselves, the the strategic constraint is public
00:27:17opinion uh, that is by and large opposed to
00:27:21this war, and we see the mid-term
00:27:25election campaigns as an expression of that, and
00:27:29we had series of senate debates, this...
00:27:32week and Republican candidates have
00:27:35struggled to explain their formal support for the
00:27:39war in terms their votes against
00:27:42congressional resolutions that have sought to uh reign in President Trump's
00:27:46authority, and yes, I think that the
00:27:50midterms, if the polls are to be believed, are
00:27:54probably going to send major
00:27:58signal of a public rebuke the
00:28:01administration. policy, but but when
00:28:05if we you know, like you said, it's it's going to send a public signal of
00:28:09rebuke, does it,
00:28:12do you think to a man like President Donald Trump, do you think it's going to
00:28:15matter in the sense that right now, in terms of this is his
00:28:19second term, so in terms of what he's
00:28:22expecting, do you think he's thinking about his legacy, do you think that you
00:28:26know he is thinking about bettering the the
00:28:30original Obama agreement, or you
00:28:32I think we spoke earlier that is no
00:28:34more on
00:28:35the table, it's not something that's likely to happen anymore,
00:28:39so what is what is he going to be thinking, not that one can really
00:28:42judge, but what is your opinion
00:28:44generally? well, we have to remember that it's
00:28:48not the only constraint on president Trump, his
00:28:52military options have become more constrained by virtue
00:28:56of simple military realities, the uh force that's
00:28:59currently deployed in the Persian Gulf cannot remain there.
00:29:02indefinitely
00:29:04uh the loss the naval support activity in Bahrain um has
00:29:08strained uh logistical supply chains um we've
00:29:11seen um aircraft carrier groups remain deployed well
00:29:15beyond uh the point where um they remained operationally
00:29:19effective uh and then uh subsequently taken out of
00:29:23service for extended periods of time for emergency maintenance
00:29:27we saw that with the USS Gerald Ford we saw that with the USS Abraham
00:29:31Lincoln um these are um these
00:29:34are assets that the US has in limited quantities and it can't
00:29:38continue this pace and intensity of deployment
00:29:42indefinitely. um, if there is a change in control of
00:29:46Congress and Congress is willing to assert its prerogatives uh more
00:29:50aggressively in terms of restricting funding and
00:29:53uh passing concrete legislative
00:29:57constraints on the president's ability to conduct this war
00:30:00then uh that uh further constrain President Trump in
00:30:04the the options that he has. Um, we've seen the depletion of
00:30:08critical munitions worldwide. The US has
00:30:12has lost between half and two-thirds of its supplies
00:30:15of critical offensive and
00:30:19defensive munitions, tomahawk missiles, patriot pack
00:30:233 interceptors, that interceptors. These are developments
00:30:27that have an impact not only with regard to this conflict, but also with
00:30:31regard to the strength the US. military deterrant in Asia, in
00:30:34Europe, so uh, yes, the sorry, go
00:30:38ahead, is it fact that
00:30:42the US can you, continue this war at least
00:30:46on the military front indefinitely, or you
00:30:50think that you within these constraints,
00:30:52no, no, I don't think, I don't think that it's
00:30:56sustainable, I think that it can continue,