Houthi threat to Saudi energy hub could upend Trump’s midterm message - E&E News by POLITICO
Houthi threat to Saudi energy hub could upend Trump’s midterm message - E&E News by POLITICO
Source: E&E News by POLITICO
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DW NOTE
The Houthis have been launching projectiles at commercial shipping for eighteen months. If this were genuinely capable of upending a midterm message, it would have done so already. Oil spiked 20% last month and has since given back most of the move — markets price disruption risk, then reprice when tankers reroute and supply adjusts. Political analysts calling every Middle East flare-up a game-changer are trading in theatre, not freight rates.