so why did tplf attack the Ethiopian military base

They just want their ethnic oligarchy back pretty much

U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman told reporters on Tuesday that he has seen "nascent progress" between the two sides, but fears it might not last.

“There is some nascent progress in trying to get the parties to move from a military confrontation to a negotiating process," he said, "but what concerns us is that this fragile progress risks being outpaced by the alarming developments on the ground that threaten Ethiopia’s overall stability and unity.”

bbc.com/news/world-africa-59393463

"The prime minister has sought to portray his country as a victim, not just of Tigrayan aggression, but of a vast international conspiracy designed to weaken Ethiopia and punish it for, allegedly, challenging Western colonial interests on the continent.

Western media are portrayed as enthusiastic backers of that conspiracy theory - one which appears to have gained widespread credibility in a country struggling to explain how the rebel group could have made such startling headway."

Lol

Libs and naming errythang a conspiracy theory go together like milk and honey

They really about to let Ethopia enter a f***ing civil war for whatever bullshit reason that benefits them.

I just wish African nations realize "The West" are not and will never be their allies.

Blatant imperialism.

I don't know much but

-the West has an interest in ethiopia not building the dam and harming Egypt

-the ethiopian government is committing a genocide in tigray

-the tplf are not good themselves

Seems like another case of powers treating every actor as a chess pawn

There is no genocide, like you said you don't know much

And there are no powers using the Ethiopian government as a pawn, Abiy coming to power was an internal thing with no foreign involvement.

Western media has really been portraying this war like it's only been going on in Tigray, and as if the Ethiopian government is the aggressor.

Every Ethiopian knows about the Mai Kadra massacre, every Ethiopian knows about the TPLF starting the conflict with the Northern command attacks, every Ethiopian knows the TPLF has looted even USAID food supplies. Yet the narrative in Western media has been the complete opposite. I can assure you nobody in the West posting "WHAT'S GOING ON IN ETHIOPIA" infographics knows about these things.

Obviously there is an agenda, as this leak has proved beyond any doubt now, but a lot of it also has to do with Western arrogance. Reporters simply do not care to accurately report on this conflict as they would with other conflicts. Parachute journalism by culturally and politically ignorant Western journalists who have don't even know how to pronounce "Tigray" lol.

@Ronin you peeped?

sputniknews.com/20211125/watch-us-european-diplomats-secretly-plan-ethiopian-transition-government-with-tplf-leader-1091001180.html

"According to investigative journalist Jeff Pearce, the video was shot on a phone camera by an unnamed participant in the meeting and given to him. The source said the meeting was held under the auspices of the Peace and Development Center International, which they described as “TPLF and OLF-run masquerading as NGO,” referring to the TPLF-allied Oromo Liberation Front.

On the center’s website, it lists among its partners and donors the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which is part of the US State Department, and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a well-known and self-admitted CIA front, both of which have astroturfed opposition parties and funneled funds to pro-US groups from Hong Kong to Nicaragua and beyond."

NED & USAID, that's really all you need to know.

Reading now

By the way, am I correct in thinking that if the government is overthrown, there would then immediately be another civil war, as the TPLF more or less want to usurp the government whereas the OLA want independence?

That's very likely tbh, unless the TPLF decides to settle for secession.

What’s the footnotes here bro? Is this related to Ethiopia’s feud with Egypt?

He knows more than me, but it seems pretty likely to me that one of the main reasons for the West to approve of the TPLF is the tension between Ethiopia and Egypt (Egypt being one of the main US allies in Africa and the Middle East)

Unless you mean the conflict as a whole, in which case I don’t think Egypt or the West actively fomented rebellion

It's related to so many things tbh lol, even going back to the first Ethiopian-Italo war in the 19th century. But these are the most important things @alphabear

Yeah, f*** Ethiopians for daring to develop some kind of independence. How dare they.

He'll defend any form of imperialism, even if by his own admission he doesn't know s*** about the situation lol

I in no way supported that, don't look at me, im just saying what is in the wests interests. I don't f*** with that intervention at all