I thought Saudi Arabia was majority Sunni?
The Houthi are Shiites.
That said, what both of these groups hate more than anything is the US and the West.
But I think the Saudis are being pragmatic, because the rich want to stay rich, and they are a nation state...which Obama has been busy destroying. And they know it and don’t want Bambi to think he’s going to be the new caliph on the ruins of their state.
Obama wants to get close to Shiite Iran, mostly because it hates the US more overtly than any other place, but at the same time, he’s a Sunni (99% of Indonesia, where he was brought up and which has the largest Muslim population in the world,is Sunni). So he may be a little conflicted on this one.