The failed strategies employed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE in Yemen to protect the south
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What is happening today is clear, day after day that there is a hidden conflict between the UAE and Saudi Arabia on the south. Saudi Arabia carries out religious activities to spread Wahhabi ideology and to control the legitimate government, On the other hand, The United Arab Emirates is going to buy influential agents such as political leaders.
Saudi Arabia’s leadership seems intent on continuing its intervention despite the lack of progress and the extraordinary suffering and damage caused by the war. In addition to continuing to pursue a failed strategy in Yemen, Saudi Arabia seems intent on battling its key partner in Yemen (the UAE). The fact that relations between the UAE and Saudi Arabia are deteriorating does not bode well for efforts to stabilize the country.
If Saudi Arabia and the UAE choose to fight one another via proxies, as has already happened in the south, Yemen’s civil war will take on another layer of deadly complexity. Neither Saudi Arabia nor the UAE — and certainly not Yemen — will benefit from such a fight.
The failed strategies employed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE in Yemen, it is all but certain that the war in Yemen will continue for years. The conflict has already devastated Yemen. However, the longer it continues, the more danger it poses not only to millions of Yemenis but also to the people of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Even if the war were to stop today, the consequences of having devastated an entire country’s infrastructure, further impoverished millions and of having dumped tens of millions of dollars of weapons into an already well-armed country will reverberate throughout the region for years to come.
The importance of the Hadramawt, it is certain that control of the province, much like Aden, will be contested by Saudi Arabia and the UAE via their proxies if not their own forces.
Neither Saudi Arabia nor the UAE will secure durable spheres of influence in Yemen. In Yemen, it is unlikely that they would be able to defeat Al-Houthis and establish a government that would serve their interests. the fact that the two primary members of the coalition that launched “Operation Decisive Storm” are engaged in what can be described as a war within a war, it is certain that neither country will be able to stabilize Yemen.
Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE are stuck in a political and tactical quagmire. The conflict has exacerbated the divisions in Yemen’s north and south. Tactically there are no good military options for bringing about a conclusion to the war, and political options that existed before the start of the intervention are no longer available.
The only way to end the war in Yemen and to begin stabilizing and rebuilding the country is through some kind of negotiated settlement.
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