Yeah that’s all fair enough of a take on it for sure. Personally though I think western media has been trying to exploit tensions in the region because like monthly for the past year there’ll be big articles trying to claim a war is about to start or similar.
Personally I think those articles were pushed by the egyptian govt to force a big player into intervening here since Ethiopia has not been giving an inch at all. The west were pretty unresponsive until this TPLF bs, 🇷🇺 doesn't give a single f*** and it's not in 🇨🇳 interest for a binding agreement to be forced upon Ethiopia since they're about to do the same thing to 🇮🇳 that 🇪🇹 is doing to 🇪🇬 on the Brahmaputra river and they don't want a modern international precedent to be established.
Been built technically but it's not in full use yet they're filling the resevoirs which takes up to 7 years from now
5 years actually, they've already had 2 filling rounds since 2020.
Yeah personally I don't think the west views the tension between those countries as an opportunity but more as a HUGE threat to their national security (really Europe's security more than anything).
Here's the thing: the Nile in Ethiopia has an hydroelectric potential of 60,000MW, this huge dam that's posing an existential threat to Egypt has a max production capacity 6500MW. So that means that Ethiopia can and will put about 10 of these big boys or 100 small ones all across that damn river which means it's game over for Egypt as a country. Egypt literally cannot survive if Ethiopia gets rich and gives electricity to its people, they absolutely need it to remain undeveloped to have a chance at survival.
A crumbling Egypt means tens of millions of refugees headed straight to Europe and those racists there are about 15 brown refugees away from turning into literal 1930s facists, for liberal democracy to persist in Europe these dams absolutely can't be built. Then you have the Suez canal on which the europeans depend on like crazy. It's as much of a zero sum game situation as you can possibly have.
I don't buy the narrative that the dam inevitably means devastating droughts in Egypt tbh. Most actual scientific studies conclude that it won't, or that severe droughts are at least preventable if Egypts takes necessary precautions, which the government may not be willing to do tbf.
nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19089-x
5 years actually, they've already had 2 filling rounds since 2020.
It depends on how fast they continue filling it up which I don't think is a sure thing yet afaik
"Peace and Development Center International — the shady NGO in Ethiopia that hosted the diplomats who met with a TPLF official last Sunday — is in full damage control mode. The center has taken down the names of prominent figures from the “Who We Are” section on its website.
Fortunately, there are still breadcrumbs leading to who they are… and the trail leads right into the White House."
"Another founding member is Daniel Yohannes, former U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Yohannes is reportedly the center’s point of contact in the U.S. government.
PDCI members were among Ethiopians specially invited to the White House in the late summer to discuss the conflict with top officials, reportedly including Jeffrey Feltman, the U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa. The meeting was held just before Feltman travelled back to Addis Ababa in August.
As Sputnik International noted yesterday, the PDCI has among its partners and USAID “which is part of the U.S. 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-U.S. groups from Hong Kong to Nicaragua and beyond.”
It’s also worth noting, as @EliezerAbate discovered, that PDCI was formed in September 2020, with its website registered on November 3, 2020. On the evening of that November 3rd, the TPLF attacked outposts of the Ethiopian Northern Command."
They literally registered the website on the day the TPLF attacked the northern commands lol... Can't make this s*** up
They literally registered the website on the day the TPLF attacked the northern commands lol... Can't make this s*** up
Can you give me a resume how its going there
The people in Addis Abeba that i know seem fine and say the stuff in the news is exaggerated but i doubt they know anything. Internet always shut down too when something happens it seems
Now that the TPLF is losing the jury is still out on whether it's a genocide lmao
Can you give me a resume how its going there
The people in Addis Abeba that i know seem fine and say the stuff in the news is exaggerated but i doubt they know anything. Internet always shut down too when something happens it seems
Yo sorry forgot to respond, but the TPLF is losing big time rn so that's great news
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2021/12/01/us-halts-tigray-genocide-determination-to-pursue-ethiopia-diplomacy/
Now that the TPLF is losing the jury is still out on whether it's a genocide lmao
lol the US is disgusting
@pumadon
War isn’t over though, they’ll probably retreat into Tigray, regroup and launch an offensive on Wolkait. They’re f***ed though lol
It's wild how the media portrayed it like one side was committing all of the atrocities, and it just happened to be the side who did not start the conflict.
It's wild how the media portrayed it like one side was committing all of the atrocities, and it just happened to be the side who did not start the conflict.
how do u even ever recover from that
the tplf really some a******s, all bc they couldnt see themselves not being on top
how do u even ever recover from that
the tplf really some a******s, all bc they couldnt see themselves not being on top
It's really wild how if you just vaguely followed the Western media narrative on this war, you would believe that the TPLF are freedom fighters fighting against a government who was being racist and committing genocide in their region.
Even tbe name "Tigray war" is so biased, erasing the suffering brought by the TPLF in other regions.
@pumadon
Seems like cap
Hed probably say anything to not be blamed for this. Like they made them do this s*** lol
Seems like cap
Hed probably say anything to not be blamed for this. Like they made them do this s*** lol
I don't think he could genuinely believe this will absolves him in the eyes of Ethiopians, people are just gonna double down on calling the TPLF traitors.
Getachew is a prolific liar but it's hard for me to figure out what his motive would be here.