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  • Nov 26, 2021
    krishna bound

    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.

  • Nov 26, 2021
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    Scratchin Mamba

    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.

  • Nov 26, 2021
    red eagle

    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

    sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447917300837

    iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0ac9

  • Nov 26, 2021
    red eagle

    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

  • Nov 26, 2021

    jeffpearce.medium.com/the-tplfs-circle-of-powerful-movers-and-shakers-leads-right-into-joe-biden-s-back-yard-229073d14043

    "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."

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    They literally registered the website on the day the TPLF attacked the northern commands lol... Can't make this s*** up

  • Nov 26, 2021
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    Scratchin Mamba

    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

  • Dec 6, 2021
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    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

  • Dec 6, 2021
    Y0rn

    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

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  • Dec 7, 2021
    Scratchin Mamba

    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

  • Dec 7, 2021
    Scratchin Mamba

    @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

  • Dec 8, 2021
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    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.

  • Dec 9, 2021
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    Scratchin Mamba
    https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1468629372223606789

    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

  • Dec 9, 2021

    Wild

  • Dec 9, 2021
    red eagle

    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.

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    Death to America fr

  • Dec 10, 2021
    Scratchin Mamba

    Death to America fr

  • Dec 10, 2021
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    Scratchin Mamba
    https://twitter.com/newBuz_Ethiopia/status/1468904233814614016

    @pumadon

    Seems like cap

    Hed probably say anything to not be blamed for this. Like they made them do this s*** lol

  • Dec 10, 2021
    red eagle

    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.

  • Dec 10, 2021
    Scratchin Mamba

    Death to America fr

  • Dec 10, 2021
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    free tigray got a couple friends from that region

  • Dec 10, 2021
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    What Zit Tooya

    free tigray got a couple friends from that region

    From the TPLF