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Ryan Bridge: Would we send our troops to fight the Houthis? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: It's possible that our Defense Force could send personnel to
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East to help stop the Huthis. They're the
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  Speaker 1: group in Yemen. We've spoken about them before. They are
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  Speaker 1: backed by Iran. The are the ones currently firing drones
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  Speaker 1: and cruise missiles at Saudi tankers. They are the ones,
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  Speaker 1: along with the Revolutionary Garden Iran, pushing up the price
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  Speaker 1: of oil this morning. They are the ones blocking the
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  Speaker 1: B route for getting crude out of the Gulf. The
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  Speaker 1: other reason we'll probably pay more to fill up our
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  Speaker 1: cars and trucks next week. Like most other Western countries,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't really touched Trump's war in a military sense,
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  Speaker 1: done anything really about the Strait of Hormuz. But the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sea is different because we've been there before. Two
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  Speaker 1: years ago. You might remember this, Judith Collins sent six
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  Speaker 1: MZDF personnel specifically to help the US lead coalition that
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  Speaker 1: was trying to stop these exact type of attacks. Winston
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  Speaker 1: Peters said at the time their tacks were illegal against
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  Speaker 1: our values. We want freedom of navigation, all that good stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and quote continue to affect New Zealand's economy. You would
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  Speaker 1: have to say, given what we're witnessing this week and
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  Speaker 1: in the last twenty four hours that nothing's changed. That
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  Speaker 1: deployment was scheduled to end at the beginning of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. After it was extended in June, we had
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  Speaker 1: Chris penk who's that the new Defenseman has to come
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  Speaker 1: out an extend day deployment to the Middle East by
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  Speaker 1: at least two years of up to fourteen personnel for
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  Speaker 1: quote maritime security. The question now is whether we will
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  Speaker 1: be sending more and doing more. For more from Early
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