DUBAI/CAIRO, July 20 – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they were imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, a move that opens a new front against the United States in its war on Iran and widens the threat to global energy supplies and trade beyond the Gulf.

Iran had pressed the Houthis to close the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea if the U.S. continued to attack Iranian power infrastructure.

In their statement, the Houthis’ armed forces said they were declaring “a maritime embargo against the criminal Saudi enemy, based on the equation of ‘an eye for an eye’, effective immediately…”

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The two Western-aligned nations have long condemned Tehran’s aggression in the Middle East, and have denied taking part in active conflict.

But it emerged yesterday that both carried out separate attacks in March and April.

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U.S. Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden both tried to reach a nuclear deal with the kingdom to share American technology. Nonproliferation experts warn any spinning centrifuges within Saudi Arabia could open the door to a possible weapons program for the kingdom, something its assertive crown prince has suggested he could pursue if Tehran obtains an atomic bomb.

Already, Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan signed a mutual defense pact last year after Israel launched an attack on Qatar targeting Hamas officials. Pakistan’s defense minister then said his nation’s nuclear program “will be made available” to Saudi Arabia if needed, something seen as a warning for Israel, long believed to be the Middle East’s only nuclear-armed state.

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Who’ll shed a tear for Jimmy Kimmel? I didn’t watch him anyway. He’s apparently mad as all get out about being fired. But his show was losing money. Maybe he didn’t know they were looking for an excuse to fire him anyway, but he’s acting like the network gave up its cause. But his ratings were awful, and networks don’t like losing money. He can pretend like he didn’t foul things up, but we don’t care. All the late-night comedians are on notice now. We don’t even have comedians like in the old days.They knew better than to get political.

They may be talking about an end to the war in Ukraine, but you wouldn’t know it. It seems both sides are looking to get an advantage before that happens. Peace talks seem way off somewhere as both sides press the war. Apparently there are rare earth minerals in Ukraine, and that is a major factor.  

You know the score with Israel and Gaza. The Arab countries seem loathe to mess with Israel now that Trump is on the job. Nobody wants to get crosswise with him!  Israel is still at work in Gaza, and you have to wonder what the future holds. Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf kingdoms aren’t pitching in, but who knows what they’re doing behind the scenes. Israel hit a neighborhood in Qatar, saying that the idiots who unleashed Oct. 7 were residing there. The news tells us to feel sorry for Gaza, but I don’t. If you’d have told everybody they’d have to flee and live in a tent, they probably would have taken care of the terrorists themselves.

Trump is making deals all over the world. He’s got his best deputies fanned out doing our bidding.  Can the world survive peace? We’re going to find out.  Hatreds over there date way back and have to do with the British partition of 1947, and they still hate each other. They both have nuclear weapons and nobody wants to see one go off.  

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have made an agreement.  An attack on one is as good as an attack on both, and Pakistan has nukes.  There have always been incidents along the border with India, but this heightens the odds.  Will Saudi Arabia get involved in their ongoing border skirmishes?  Surely not.  

I’m sure everybody is breathing a collective sigh of relief, but it may not always be peaceable.  Donald Trump plays for keeps, and it doesn’t look like he’s getting much sleep.  We may have to live through the indictment and trial of all the bad guys of the Obama/Biden administration.  Maybe even Obama himself.    

Trump visited England this week.  It’s nice to see Ephraim and Manasseh getting along even though the rest of the world is still in disarray.   

Mark

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Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement in Riyadh on September 17, 2025. The joint declaration, issued by the Saudi Press Agency, stated that “any aggression against either country shall be considered an aggression against both.” This language mirrors the collective defense clauses of formal alliances, signaling a significant step beyond the informal security ties Riyadh and Islamabad have long maintained.

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Source: https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-867906

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Now we’re hearing that Biden couldn’t have stayed out of a wheelchair much longer. Can you imagine what would have happened if they’d have rolled him out in a wheelchair? Thankfully none of that happened.  Now the bad guys are scared to death. They wait in vain for Trump to commit some kind of gaffe so they can start playing offense. But he’s got the brightest minds advising him and he’s probably not going to make that kind of error.

Comey has himself back in the news. He’s the only one who didn’t know what those spelled out shells meant.  He was completely clueless, and he’s got the look on his face to prove it. You and I knew immediately that it was a call to assassinate the President.  But the former head of the F.B.I., he had no idea. Not only that, he was the one to publicize it.  And he was the head of the agency.

If you didn’t see Jake Tapper on the Megan Kelly show you must. He apparently is admitting that he got it wrong, scolding people for even suggesting Joe Biden was unfit. He’s coming clean, and some are suggesting that he’s doing it simply because he stands to make money on his book. Then again, maybe it was the only option to saving his career. We’ll have to see if he succeeded. Megan Kelly played him scolding one of the Trump daughters in law for “poking fun at his stutter.” She explained that she didn’t even know he had a stutter, for all the good it did. He’s saying he’s apologized for all that, and his BOOK!  

Trump wants to shut down the bringing in of terrorists by the big universities. But they’re not having it. One of these issues of defiance is going to end up at the Supreme Court, and they’ve already ruled on some issues, and not exclusively for the President.

I watched the entire Trump visit and speech in Saudi Arabia, but the question I want answered was never asked.  Why don’t you use some of your billions, which came from us buying your oil, to build the so-called Palestinians a beachfront resort?  Instead, Qatar gave us an expensive 747.  Somebody suggested Trump was accepting it personally and immediately regretted the question.

I may never fly again.  At least not until all these crashes are figured out.  Flying commercial may be a hazard to your health.  Every time you turn around there’s another air disaster or close call.  Maybe Trump can get it straightened out, but until he’s turned his attention to it…

And they’re targeting the TSA, saying it might go private. The TSA was introduced after 9-11 and I flipped when I saw it on TV. But having put up with their “rules” for several years, I don’t want to do it again. Please, replace the TSA! We ought to be checking their identities.

The trip, the parts we were shown, was a big success, and I’m sure they’re bowing and scraping all over the world. For decades now, nobody cared what the U.S. thought or was doing, and the world ran amok. Now everybody’s tripping over each other trying to get on Donald Trump’s good side. He’s in the zone, and while I wish I wasn’t a fan, I love the United States.  

Mark 

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Greetings from Tyler,

All the network news is dead set against our President. They’ve worked overtime trying to engineer some crisis. Latest is the gift from Qatar. It’s a beautiful 747 and you’d think that the President was accepting it on his own behalf. It’s a 747 with all the bells and whistles that anybody could want. The mainstream is trying to pretend it was a gift to you know who, and he very deftly rammed that question down the reporter’s throat when she asked it in such a way to pretend like it was a bribe. She instantly regretted it, at least I hope she did.

I watched the president’s visit to Saudi Arabia, and he was welcomed in a way that you don’t see every day. The Benny show played the Biden visit, where Biden had to drive an hour to visit the Royal Family, and then they fist-bumped. In this instance, the entire Royal entourage came to the airport to greet the President. They took him through some hall of progress, where they’re trying out new innovations, and then to the hall to speak.

He lifted sanctions on Syria. It may have something to do with the fact that Bashir Assad fled Syria no doubt taking vast sums with him. Anyway, he’s gone just in time. We’ve heard about all the shipping trouble in the Red Sea, and the Houthis were responsible. There are no reporters on the ground, but our jets responded, and now they want to make peace. Imagine that!

President Trump alluded to our weapons capability in his speech, and said nobody wants to be the first to find out. He praised the King and his deputy and said the place has changed since he was last there. They toured him around their opulent displays and he took it in.  Then he was introduced for his speech. He had a veritable posse with him, some of the richest, smartest guys on earth. You’ve seen a Trump speech before, and this was just as confident as you remember.

He dropped the bombshell about Syria. Says that sanctions would keep them from achieving what’s possible, so he’s dropping them. Keeping this Holy War going is a fool’s errand. We knew that long ago, but…insanity you know, fed down through generations. It’s a family tradition to hate the Jews, and want to annihilate them. I doubt Trump can stamp out the hatreds that have been handed down since Biblical times. He’s prying Syria away from Iran.

Putin is playing hardball on Ukraine. Maybe Trump can convince everybody that it’s in their best interest to stop the killing. Meanwhile the war drags on. Zelensky acts like Russia is going to threaten us and the world if he doesn’t get what he wants. Maybe you’ve got a different take on Zelensky, but I don’t think he’s on the up and up. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but he’s gone all over the world begging for money and weapons.  He better be careful. He’s just about worn out his welcome.

I think we’ve got a completely different situation on our hands and the sooner everybody realizes it the better. We’ve suffered through a lot of financial peril in our lives. With any luck that’s over. We’ve got a champion leading the United States, and if that isn’t an answer to prayer, I don’t know what to tell you.

Mark

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