Ethiopia was happy in the late 80's, early 90's to arm, train and unleash rebels against their neighbours, leading to the death and destruction of entire nations. Now their army is fighting internal wars on many fronts and looks like outsiders are doing the same to them.
Great, I love it. More please.
lol, do you think Ethiopians ever had any real say in what their leaders do on their behalf? You sound like an idiot trying to attribute all the chaos of the region on the Ethiopian people and not on the trash regimes which have represented them.
But by all means, support the white man and Arab man’s bullshyt in Africa.
US would prefer Sisi's extra ass over the Muslim Brotherhood. If Ethiopia moves forward w/ GERD then it will weaken Sisi's stance in Egypt.
But Abiy is going to keep filling that damn.
Love watching occupied Egypt take L’s.
So we’re going to ignore the Woyanes rushing into Somalia at the behest of Washington to take down the Islamic Courts Union? Only to leave al Shabab around to terrorize? Woyanes policies against Eritrea also were in lock step with the West’s agenda. How can that be anything other than a neocolonial relationship? Ethiopia under the Woyanes were America’s cop in the region.
Explain why America has spent nearly three decades ignoring every bit of human rights and political and social injustice that has gone on in Ethiopia but now all of a sudden have such grave concerns since their little poodles in Mekelle lost control of Abiy? What about the very obvious bias from old Obama admin dogs like Susan Rice aka Meles’ hoe?
To suggest that claiming this is a battle of neocolonial forces vs internal forces looking to protect the country isn’t weak at all. The U.S. allowing a bunch of rag tag rebels to create an ethnic based system with no referendums or votes, complete with fake ethnic enclaves and ethnic ID cards, that begins a process of Balkanization which is a direct trait of neocolonialism. But of course the West thought nothing of it, because it fits an agenda going back a century of the West wanting Ethiopia dissolved because it has always been a symbol which runs counter to a Eurocentric paradigm and worldview.
We can certainly agree that the burden of proof is on the side of Pan Ethiopianists with regards to these claims but this is how many of us have felt for years. Just cuz we don’t see the fire don’t mean we don’t smell the smoke. People like Sudan Rice, situations like the Morsi tape where he spells out Egypt’s desire to influence racist ethnonationaliats in Ethiopia to revolt to cause instability, all of the years of brutality from the regime just to be ignored by the West. The media’s portrayal of the conflict has also been very obvious in its attempts to manufacture enough emotive responses to get a more robust intervention situation on the ground.
There’s always been a weird backhanded bias towards Ethiopia from the West. When she inspired enslaved Africans to revolt. When she inspired Africans to end colonialism. There’s always been an effort to keep her subservient and on her knees. Can’t convince me otherwise.
