Once again, the skies over Riyadh have become a theater of contested power, as Saudi Arabia reports that Houthi forces attempted to strike the kingdom's capital — a reminder that the war in Yemen has never truly stayed within Yemen's borders. The claim, sparse in detail but heavy in implication, extends a years-long pattern of cross-border strikes by Iranian-backed militants who have demonstrated both the will and the means to reach deep into Gulf territory. These moments do not merely test air defenses; they test the architecture of regional order itself, and the silence between each strike i