Houthis Put the Red Sea at Risk as an Alternative Oil Route

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“If the Houthis make good on their threat to blockade ships traveling to and from Saudi Arabia via the Red Sea, it would yet again upend global oil markets by compromising a crucial fallback for the Strait of Hormuz,” the New York Times reports.“Since the early weeks of the war with Iran, Saudi Arabia has been relying on a pipeline that bisects the country to reroute millions of barrels of oil from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.”PBS: Trump says U.S. would have to “take care” of potential Houthi blockade of Red Sea.