Global implications: Yemen tells Saudi Arabia there will be no security while the blockade and bombs continue Yemen sits at one of the most consequential pieces of real estate on the planet, controlling the eastern shore of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the narrow chokepoint linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and, by extension, the Indian Ocean. Roughly ten percent of global seaborne trade, along with a substantial share of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas shipments bound for the Suez Canal and onward to European and North American markets, funnels through this strait every year. It…

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