We favor a diplomatic solution. We know that there is no military solution.In a special briefing on 3 April - nearly six months after Yemen launched its far-reaching naval operations to debilitate Israel's ability to conduct war on Gaza - US Special Envoy for Yemen Timothy Lenderking touted the importance of seeking diplomatic solutions in Yemen instead of the military ones his government has been loudly advocating for months.
— US Special Envoy for Yemen Timothy Lenderking
Lenderking's stance contrasted sharply with Washington's announcement in December of a multinational coalition against Yemen's Ansarallah-led forces, aimed at safeguarding international shipping in the Red Sea and effectively protecting Israeli-linked trade from Yemen's sweeping naval blockade.
Comment: Whilst Russia indeed has a strategy that it is adhering to, and modifying, it seems in line with its intent to protect civilians that it postponed seriously cutting off power generation until after the harshest point of the winter season.
In the following interview Scott Ritter details how he thinks Russia is intent of demilitarising the whole of Ukraine and how Ukraine will be tied to Russia and Belarus by way of a political and economic union: