I think your view is somewhat wrong. The Huthis have been at war with the government for a long time and calling it a coup is very misleading. A coup is the s

I think your view is somewhat wrong. The Huthis have been at war with the government for a long time and calling it a coup is very misleading. A coup is the seizure of power by a internal force that seeks to control the government. The Huthis are a external force to the government and when they took Sanaa the governemnt left for aden. A important aspect is also that the former president that was pressured out of power by US/Saudi. He essentially took his best trained and equipped (by the US of course) and allied with the Huthis. He left for another city and basically handed the Houthis Sanaa. The now persident Hadi was hardly elected, he is the hand picked successor by the US/Saudi. He has little legitimicy anywhere, not in the North or even the South that the government claims to control. The Houthi have no capabilty to take over the rest of the country and the only way we could 'let them succeed' would be to join them against forces in the South. The fact is that Yemen is politically fractured and no group has the power to control the territory. We should simply accept that, minimize combat with support for local seize fires and open up trade and aid again. And of course non of that will happen as the Saudis will continue this war. For them having stable Houthi control over the North west is not very acceptable.