Not a single person ever commented how this was a good deal for the US to make especially when you look at who we left behind. I’m not sure people are surprised either that he went back into the arms trade I mean it’s his bread and butter and Putin loves him. I doubt the Biden Admin could have imagined though that of all the groups and iffy countries he would do business with the group would be the Houthi’s.
What’s wild about this is how Russia and Israel have tried to maintain strained ties. Israel stayed out of the Ukrainian War and now Russia has paid it back with arming an enemy of Israel.
The intel failures by Russia though are wild with details like the following coming out
The small arms deal that Bout was said to have been brokering was with two Houthi representatives who had traveled to Moscow under the cover of buying pesticides and vehicles and visited a Lada factory, according to the people familiar with the matter. The first two deliveries will be mostly AK-74s, an upgraded version of the AK-47 assault rifle. But during the trip, Houthi representatives also discussed other weapons the Russian side might potentially sell, including Kornet antitank missiles and antiaircraft weapons, according to the European official and other people familiar with the matter.The deliveries could start as early as October to the port of Hodeidah under the cover of food supplies, where Russia has already carried out several grain deliveries, they said.
With it being rumored that the Houthis want Russian anti tank, air, and ship missiles a small arms deal is the first step. So much for Jake Sullivan and the rest of the Biden Admin’s evaluation of his threat to Americans and American interests