Middle East and security experts find it hard to determine what Donald Trump will do about the Houthis as they continue to attack shipping.

Views are divided about what the US president-elect should do when he moves back into the White House in January — though they agree that the strategy of incumbent Joe Biden is not working.

Brian Carter, Middle East portfolio manager at the centre-right think tank American Enterprise Institute, wrote in a recent article for the Institute for the Study of War that the Biden administration’s policy of “managing escalation” in the Red Sea has failed.

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