Even if the coalition finds a way out of the war, what is likely to happen inside of yemen is this sort of steady process of disintegration. Where in the south you will have secessionist groups who pursue as much autonomy as they can with the backing of the u a e. In the north, you might have some sort of awkward power sharing arrangement between th hothes and other factions. And then you'll have parts of the country that are simply ungoverned, that are under the control of some non state actor rather than the central government.
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