Operation Don Quixote
The ca. 1590 novel of the character "don Quixote" written by Spanish author Cervantes, tells of how he lost his mind after reading books depicting war heroes. Hence, in peaceful times, with no adversaries to fight against, he jumped on his skinny horse to replicate similar heroism. Confronting enemies created in the figment of his imagination, jumping with joy about non existent victories and roaming around for a while, suddenly woke up from his dream & returned to his normal life.
Similar to this story about madness, leaders of the PP, stressing themselves with absolutely no reason to go to war, are now stressing the poor Ethiopian people too, tired and bloodied by past horrible wars by telling them to "prepare for war".
Everyone knows, what's really scaring them are the internal problems. But to conceal their fear and to rile up the people with jealousy and rise them up they say,
our neighbours have 5000 km's of coastline and we don't even have one port.
For the wise who asks "who denied you a port?", they have no answer.
The difference between the madness of don Quixote and the PP is though, don Quixote's mad intention was to repeat past heroic victories while the PP wants to repeat past devastating defeats. Everyone knows, the result of the past wars and bloodshed to own land that doesn't belong to you. A lot of the PP generals too, related to those past wars, have a humiliating and shameful history.
There can't be greater madness, than repeating past failures.