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🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- "UAE is conducting an intensive lobbying campaign in Washington aimed at persuading the U.S. administration not to support Saudi Arabia’s renewed war against the Houthis and pushing against weapons packages that could give Riyadh greater offensive capabilities to change the balance of power in Yemen. Following the collapse of the Saudi-Emirati partnership in Yemen, Riyadh has become the principal external Arab power carrying the burden of the confrontation. A decisive Saudi victory would also allow Riyadh to rebuild the anti-Houthi camp under its leadership and weaken the value of the military and political networks the UAE spent years constructing across southern and coastal Yemen. Abu Dhabi does not need to support the Houthis to benefit from their ability to exhaust Saudi Arabia. It simply needs to prevent Riyadh from obtaining the level of American assistance required to turn defensive containment into a decisive military victory. That is why the confrontation is moving from Yemen to Washington. The UAE possesses extensive political, security and commercial relationships in the United States, allowing opposition to deeper Saudi military action to be presented through the language of restraint: preventing another regional war, avoiding another Yemen quagmire, limiting escalation with Iran and questioning whether a major Saudi offensive could produce a stable political settlement. But behind the language of “restraint” lies a brutal Gulf struggle for power. Abu Dhabi does not need the Houthis to win. It only needs Saudi Arabia not to win," - The Dark Box, citing its high-level sources.