🇸🇦🇾🇪🇾🇪⚡️ — SAUDI ARABIA’S FAILED STRIKE ON SANA’A

Saudi Arabia reportedly launched around ten Storm Shadow cruise missiles — roughly $2 million each — from a safe standoff distance to hit the runway at Sana’a airport. Despite the cost and firepower, the strike failed to achieve its main objective.

The decision to strike from maximum range rather than risk closer engagement speaks directly to Riyadh’s fear of Yemeni air defenses.
The more revealing detail is political, not military. Saudi Arabia has declined to claim the attack — instead, its proxy in Aden has taken credit, as though that faction possessed Storm Shadow cruise missiles or the fighter jets to deliver them. The fiction fools no one. A power confident in its position claims its strikes. Riyadh’s refusal to do so points to one thing: fear of Yemeni retaliation.

Two conclusions stand out. First, the operation failed on its own terms — expensive munitions expended for no decisive result. Second, and more tellingly, Saudi Arabia is unwilling to own the attack, outsourcing responsibility to a proxy to shield itself from the consequences. That is not the posture of a confident aggressor — it is the posture of one that fears what comes next.

- Viktor Leonov

@IntelSlava
@LeonovZ