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Abiy admitted what we Eritreans have been saying all along about Ethiopia being a client state that squanders the precious lives of its children fighting someone else's wars aimed at keeping Africans in perpetual cycle of instability, poverty and economic slavery. Misery loves company.

Unfortunately, most Ethiopians don't see things this way because, in a country where every ethnic group takes turn bludgeoning other ethnicities into submission, leading to further divisions and mistrust among the population, fighting a mercenary war against a neighboring nation seems to offer them a semblance of national unity in death. Yes, sadly, the people that were divided in life are united in death by war. Reuters observed the following when reporting TPLF's 1998 invasion of Eritrea:

The doomed men hardly raised their weapons, but linked hands in a despairing communal solace in the face of certain death from four sources: Eritrean mines, perfectly aimed artillery, the trenches and their own Ethiopian officers in the rear, who shot them if they turned and ran.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/may/18/ethiopia

The same scene was repeated during recent mercenary wars, where TPLF's general Teklay Ashebir's was heard giving orders to execute Tigrayan mercenary fighters fleeing the battlefield. Menghistu Hailemariam was also notorious for executing his generals each time his mercenary army suffered a defeat. And now Banda Abiy is saying: "We will fight your wars." "We are good mercenaries."

In a country where 97% of the national budget comes from foreign-aid, the only way to maintain the uninterrupted flow of aid is to make yourself a mercenary fighter going to war on behalf of the donors.

The countries neighboring Ethiopia are fed up with Ethiopia's mercenary wars that, I'm afraid in their act of self defense they may one day pull the loose threads holding the fractured country together to put an end to its misery, of course in a very humane way possible.

So, what happens when the foreign aid stops?
You will borrow more money?
But your credit is maxed out, because you are unable to pay your debt!

A little cut in foreign aid and the country goes bankrupt and defaults on its debt. For a country like this, sanctions would mean a death sentence.

See what I mean....

Thanks, Fiyameta for the valuable, honest, and unadulterated news, like the Agames shamelessly love to bring. I appreciate it all. But responding to the Agames' ሃበስ ቀበስ like the useless ቆማል ደቂ ዓጣሪት ወዘተ፡ is giving him some significance he does not deserve. Regardless of how many Ethiopians behave now that their greedy dream of snatching our ports, they know we stand with the truth. No need to argue with them. Eritrea, the land of the brave and honest!

If this was in another country, the people would have eaten their leader alive for turning them into unsuspecting expendable soldiers of fortune in someone else's wars. But the Ethiopian people have been lied to so many times, and for a long period of time, that they can no longer distinguish between a truth and a lie. Add to that, the impact of IMF's 50 years running Structural Adjustment Program imposed on the heavily-indebted Ethiopia that has prevented the country from spending on educational programs, resulting in its people ranked the lowest in the world in literacy rate. It's as though, they are using Ethiopia as a guinea pig in their experiment to perfect their art of keeping Africans in chains. But just because it has worked well for them in Ethiopia doesn't mean that it will work anywhere else in Africa.

In 2009, a former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was arrested by Israel security officers as she was delivering medicine to the children of Gaza. She described her experience in a letter she sent from an Israeli jail as follows:

But I’ve learned an interesting thing by being inside this prison. First of all, it’s incredibly Black: populated mostly by Ethiopians who also had a dream … like my cellmates, one who is pregnant. They are all are in their 20s. They thought they were coming to the Holy Land. They had a dream that their lives would be better … The once proud Ethiopia has been thrown into the back pocket of the United States and become a place of torture, rendition and occupation. Ethiopians must free their country because superpower politics have become more important than human rights and self-determination.

My cellmates came to the Holy Land so they could be free from the exigencies of superpower politics. They committed no crime except to have a dream. They came to Israel because they thought that Israel held promise for them. Their journey to Israel through Sudan and Egypt was arduous. I can only imagine what it must have been like for them. And it wasn’t cheap. Many of them represent their family’s best collective efforts for self-fulfillment. They made their way to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. They got their yellow paper of identification. They got their certificate for police protection. They are refugees from tragedy, and they made it to Israel – only after they arrived, Israel told them, “There is no U.N. in Israel.”
https://sfbayview.com/2009/07/cynthia-m ... aeli-jail/

He said what?

A country cannot keep its head up high with its hand stretched out for alms.

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Can Ethiopia survive as a nation if its ability to invade neighboring countries in exchange for food-aid is no longer possible?

We are talking about a country that cannot afford $33 million dollars to make a payment on its debt.

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A $33 Million French Castle