The gains the US wants Houthis to have are more concrete than its proposed penalties on them
The US envoy to Yemen said in a Thursday press briefing his country would impose sanctions on two Houthi cavemen leading the war on the government-administered Marib: freezing assets in US banks!
The US hopes that this announcement will come across in Yemen as a serious US act against Houthis, and, perhaps, will some credulous masses will believe it and appreciate it.
At the same time, the Lenderking was pressing a Houthi demand, a more concrete one than the FANTASTICAL sanctions against two Houthi members: lifting the blockade on all Houthi-controlled ports of entry to Yemen!