The UAE didn’t stabilise Yemen — it entrenched fragmentation and turned a war into a permanent Red Sea problem. Right, so there is supposedly a ceasefire in place between Israel and Gaza, though Israel has breached it repeatedly, which already tells you how stable that claim is. Nevertheless, the Houthis have paused attacks on Israel and shipping, not because they can’t act, but because that ceasefire, however narrowly you define it, now governs the moment. The part people are missing is what is happening around that pause. Yemen is no longer being treated as a country that sets terms at the Bab el-Mandeb bottleneck to the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia has decided to exit, the south is being allowed to fragment as a result, the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council is moving in, and external powers are managing the coast instead of rebuilding the stat ...