ITT post countries that can potentially go monarchist in the near future
Yemen
>Zaidi Shiites believe in a combined imamate-monarchy with hereditary succession
>only Sayyids, families descended from Imam Ali, can claim the throne
>the last imam-monarch dynasty, the Rassids, ruled North Yemen for over 1000 years before being overthrown in 1962
>most of Yemen's population is currently under the control of the Houthis, a Zaidi movement led by a Sayyid family
>leadership is handed down through the family line (current leader is the younger brother of the slain founder)
>its original supporters are pro-monarchist Zaidi peasants in the North Yemen highlands (basically Arab Jacobites)
>BTFO'd South Yemen communists, Al Qaeda, ISIS, and a coalition of super-wealthy Gulf Arab states for the past 3 years in spite of airstrikes and cholera
>the Saudi coalition's withdrawal would mean a complete takeover of the country and potential creation of a Houthi imamate-monarchy
Iran
>Khomeini's wilayat e-faqih was really a stopgap measure to thwart a communist takeover following the shah's overthrow
>many Shiite clerics still don't support the Islamic republic model, since Twelver Shiites are also big on divine bloodlines
>the Revolutionary Guard has grown in power in past 2 decades and has increasingly asserted political power
>the younger generation is more religious and nationalistic than their elders even though enthusiasm for the theocratic republic is cooling down
>all it needs now is a popular Napoleon-figure like General Qassem Soleimani who can establish de-facto military rule followed by restoration of the shahdom (without the pro-Western cuckery of the Pahlavis)
Ethiopia
>current republican leadership are ex-Marxists who are opposed to the former royal family
>but monarchist sentiment still exist among a large chunk of the population
>again, the younger generation is more nationalistic and religiously devout, so they are less favorable towards the republic
>the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is considering canonization of Haile Selassie, who was overthrown and murdered by Derg communists
>same Derg regime plunged the country into civil war, war with Somalia, and the famine made world-famous by Live Aid
>monarchy could be restored by plebiscite after the current ruling generation retires and passes away
Russia
>Oswald Spengler and Russian monarchist émigrés like Smenovekhovtsy and Mladorossi predicted that the Marxist ideology in Soviet Union will be replaced by Russian ultranationalism even while the Soviet political structure will be preserved
>monarchism remains a popular sentiment among Russians, especially the youth, as well as a significant portion of the Russian Orthodox Church
>Vladimir Putin is an ex-KGB strongman who nonetheless promotes nationalism, Orthodox revival, and suppression of liberalism and social degeneracy
>his advisor is Aleksandr Dugin, who supports of the restoration of the Russian Empire as a traditionalist counterweight to Western liberalism
>Putin's exit will most leave behind the conditions favorable towards the restoration of of the tsardom