The big risk with the unfinished Tigray war is that Tigray will be used as a launching pad for other sponsors of terror, and historically tigreas have played that role of banda against their neighbors amaras and Eritreans.
It’s known the ferenjis want a slice of the pie in Eritreas natural resources (oil, gas, gold, copper, potash), and they will do whatever it takes to put a friendly regime in Asmara to help them loot the country
It’s known that Egypt and Sudan want no development in Ethiopia that can stop or reduce the Nile water flow and they will do whatever it takes to have a regime in Addis that will obey them or a regime like mengistu not shy of wars with Somalia or Eritrea or Sudan, the more Ethiopia is at war the less it’ll think about developing abay…
The unfinished war needs settled peacefully and the ball is in tigreas hands because the second war after Biden/ Susan rice regime expires will be harsher than the one that just ended.