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this is yet another way of articulating the issue at hand brilliantly.

Eritrea is a sovereign nation, we didn't question it, the same is true with Djibouti, Somalia and the rest of our neighbors. explained PM Abiy Ahmed.

By the same token, said the PM, Ethiopia too is a sovereign nation and our neighbors should accept that. Ethiopia can't be a sovereign nation, continued the PM, without having an unimpeded access to the sea and our neighbors should come into terms with this fact. It is a simple give and take or symbiotic relationship. Those who try to distort the symbiotic relationship must also be prepared to own the consequences.

This is more than a clear warning from Ethiopia.

Abiy Ahmed: The Messianic Delusion of the Sick Man of the Horn.

I. Lakes, Ponds, and Irredentist Fantasies

In the first video, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ventures into geopolitical metaphor, likening Ethiopia to a vast lake and dismissing neighboring sovereign states as mere ponds. Such rhetoric is not merely grandiose but perilously destabilizing. It signals an irredentist posture fundamentally at odds with the principles of the United Nations Charter, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, and binding bilateral agreements, particularly with Eritrea. The Prime Minister’s assertion that Ethiopia “must have access to the sea” under threat of regional instability is an open affront to international law, which recognizes the sovereign territorial integrity of states and prescribes diplomacy as the avenue for economic cooperation, including port access. To reduce entire nations to peripheral puddles in Ethiopia’s hydrological imagination is a dangerous minimization of the agency, sovereignty, and dignity of neighboring peoples. Such language betrays an imperial nostalgia utterly divorced from the complex interdependence and legal frameworks governing the Horn of Africa.

II. Ziquala Monastery and the Abyss of Impunity

The second video, wherein Abiy responds to the murder of an Orthodox monk at Ziquala Monastery, exposes the hollowness of his habitual pledges of investigation and accountability. Ethiopia, under his watch, has become a graveyard of unkept promises and unpunished atrocities. The massacre at Ziquala, like the countless other massacres targeting Amhara Orthodox Christians, is met with perfunctory expressions of regret, but no substantive action. The pattern is tragically clear: the state deploys rhetoric of national unity and piety while systematically abandoning entire communities to the predations of militias and state-affiliated death squads. The Prime Minister’s dismissive posture toward Ziquala underscores a moral chasm between his public declarations and the brutal reality on the ground, where religious sanctuaries have become sites of slaughter, desecration, and impunity.

III. Tigray, Global Indifference, and Abdication of Responsibility

In the third video, Abiy pivots to the specter of renewed conflict in Tigray, suggesting that the world will no longer heed the region’s plight as it once did. Invoking Sudan’s ongoing chaos and the distractions of global geopolitics, he frames potential war as a local matter, scarcely deserving external intervention. This rhetorical maneuver is profoundly cynical, as it trivializes human suffering and signals to belligerents that mass violence might now proceed without international scrutiny. It also conveniently absolves the federal government of its duty to prevent conflict through meaningful dialogue and genuine reconciliation. Abiy’s posture reveals a leader eager to distance himself from accountability, content to cast Ethiopia’s crises as mere background noise in a distracted world, while the nation teeters on the brink of further fragmentation and humanitarian disaster.

This is called keep l*cking one's own wound, which the subject has inflicted on oneself.

Yes, you are destined to remain a pond (metaphorically speaking) that keeps trying to unsettle the lake, in vain.

This is one more way of stating it brilliantly!

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

06 Jul 2025, 16:29

Abiy Ahmed: The Messianic Delusion of the Sick Man of the Horn.

I. Lakes, Ponds, and Irredentist Fantasies

In the first video, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ventures into geopolitical metaphor, likening Ethiopia to a vast lake and dismissing neighboring sovereign states as mere ponds. Such rhetoric is not merely grandiose but perilously destabilizing. It signals an irredentist posture fundamentally at odds with the principles of the United Nations Charter, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, and binding bilateral agreements, particularly with Eritrea. The Prime Minister’s assertion that Ethiopia “must have access to the sea” under threat of regional instability is an open affront to international law, which recognizes the sovereign territorial integrity of states and prescribes diplomacy as the avenue for economic cooperation, including port access. To reduce entire nations to peripheral puddles in Ethiopia’s hydrological imagination is a dangerous minimization of the agency, sovereignty, and dignity of neighboring peoples. Such language betrays an imperial nostalgia utterly divorced from the complex interdependence and legal frameworks governing the Horn of Africa.

II. Ziquala Monastery and the Abyss of Impunity

The second video, wherein Abiy responds to the murder of an Orthodox monk at Ziquala Monastery, exposes the hollowness of his habitual pledges of investigation and accountability. Ethiopia, under his watch, has become a graveyard of unkept promises and unpunished atrocities. The massacre at Ziquala, like the countless other massacres targeting Amhara Orthodox Christians, is met with perfunctory expressions of regret, but no substantive action. The pattern is tragically clear: the state deploys rhetoric of national unity and piety while systematically abandoning entire communities to the predations of militias and state-affiliated death squads. The Prime Minister’s dismissive posture toward Ziquala underscores a moral chasm between his public declarations and the brutal reality on the ground, where religious sanctuaries have become sites of slaughter, desecration, and impunity.

III. Tigray, Global Indifference, and Abdication of Responsibility

In the third video, Abiy pivots to the specter of renewed conflict in Tigray, suggesting that the world will no longer heed the region’s plight as it once did. Invoking Sudan’s ongoing chaos and the distractions of global geopolitics, he frames potential war as a local matter, scarcely deserving external intervention. This rhetorical maneuver is profoundly cynical, as it trivializes human suffering and signals to belligerents that mass violence might now proceed without international scrutiny. It also conveniently absolves the federal government of its duty to prevent conflict through meaningful dialogue and genuine reconciliation. Abiy’s posture reveals a leader eager to distance himself from accountability, content to cast Ethiopia’s crises as mere background noise in a distracted world, while the nation teeters on the brink of further fragmentation and humanitarian disaster.

I knew you would come back to factory reset.

"The lake", is unsettled already. The creatures within it, are eating each other.

DefendTheTruth wrote: ↑

07 Jul 2025, 06:19

This is called keep l*cking one's own wound, which the subject has inflicted on oneself.

Yes, you are destined to remain a pond (metaphorically speaking) that keeps trying to unsettle the lake, in vain.

This is one more way of stating it brilliantly!

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

06 Jul 2025, 16:29

Abiy Ahmed: The Messianic Delusion of the Sick Man of the Horn.

I. Lakes, Ponds, and Irredentist Fantasies

In the first video, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ventures into geopolitical metaphor, likening Ethiopia to a vast lake and dismissing neighboring sovereign states as mere ponds. Such rhetoric is not merely grandiose but perilously destabilizing. It signals an irredentist posture fundamentally at odds with the principles of the United Nations Charter, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, and binding bilateral agreements, particularly with Eritrea. The Prime Minister’s assertion that Ethiopia “must have access to the sea” under threat of regional instability is an open affront to international law, which recognizes the sovereign territorial integrity of states and prescribes diplomacy as the avenue for economic cooperation, including port access. To reduce entire nations to peripheral puddles in Ethiopia’s hydrological imagination is a dangerous minimization of the agency, sovereignty, and dignity of neighboring peoples. Such language betrays an imperial nostalgia utterly divorced from the complex interdependence and legal frameworks governing the Horn of Africa.

II. Ziquala Monastery and the Abyss of Impunity

The second video, wherein Abiy responds to the murder of an Orthodox monk at Ziquala Monastery, exposes the hollowness of his habitual pledges of investigation and accountability. Ethiopia, under his watch, has become a graveyard of unkept promises and unpunished atrocities. The massacre at Ziquala, like the countless other massacres targeting Amhara Orthodox Christians, is met with perfunctory expressions of regret, but no substantive action. The pattern is tragically clear: the state deploys rhetoric of national unity and piety while systematically abandoning entire communities to the predations of militias and state-affiliated death squads. The Prime Minister’s dismissive posture toward Ziquala underscores a moral chasm between his public declarations and the brutal reality on the ground, where religious sanctuaries have become sites of slaughter, desecration, and impunity.

III. Tigray, Global Indifference, and Abdication of Responsibility

In the third video, Abiy pivots to the specter of renewed conflict in Tigray, suggesting that the world will no longer heed the region’s plight as it once did. Invoking Sudan’s ongoing chaos and the distractions of global geopolitics, he frames potential war as a local matter, scarcely deserving external intervention. This rhetorical maneuver is profoundly cynical, as it trivializes human suffering and signals to belligerents that mass violence might now proceed without international scrutiny. It also conveniently absolves the federal government of its duty to prevent conflict through meaningful dialogue and genuine reconciliation. Abiy’s posture reveals a leader eager to distance himself from accountability, content to cast Ethiopia’s crises as mere background noise in a distracted world, while the nation teeters on the brink of further fragmentation and humanitarian disaster.

Why was the old man so insecure and have to spend the good part of "his speech" talking about the "unsettled" instead of saying few things about his own sing-a-poor on the "national independence" day of the same sing-a-poor?

Let's keep singing sing-a-poor is alright, everything is going well over there, nothing is in short-supply. Sing-a-Poor!
Are you happy with that?
What a dumb-head!

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

07 Jul 2025, 09:58

I knew you would come back to factory reset.

"The lake", is unsettled already. The creatures within it, are eating each other.

DefendTheTruth wrote: ↑

07 Jul 2025, 06:19

This is called keep l*cking one's own wound, which the subject has inflicted on oneself.

Yes, you are destined to remain a pond (metaphorically speaking) that keeps trying to unsettle the lake, in vain.

This is one more way of stating it brilliantly!

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

06 Jul 2025, 16:29

Abiy Ahmed: The Messianic Delusion of the Sick Man of the Horn.

I. Lakes, Ponds, and Irredentist Fantasies

In the first video, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ventures into geopolitical metaphor, likening Ethiopia to a vast lake and dismissing neighboring sovereign states as mere ponds. Such rhetoric is not merely grandiose but perilously destabilizing. It signals an irredentist posture fundamentally at odds with the principles of the United Nations Charter, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, and binding bilateral agreements, particularly with Eritrea. The Prime Minister’s assertion that Ethiopia “must have access to the sea” under threat of regional instability is an open affront to international law, which recognizes the sovereign territorial integrity of states and prescribes diplomacy as the avenue for economic cooperation, including port access. To reduce entire nations to peripheral puddles in Ethiopia’s hydrological imagination is a dangerous minimization of the agency, sovereignty, and dignity of neighboring peoples. Such language betrays an imperial nostalgia utterly divorced from the complex interdependence and legal frameworks governing the Horn of Africa.

II. Ziquala Monastery and the Abyss of Impunity

The second video, wherein Abiy responds to the murder of an Orthodox monk at Ziquala Monastery, exposes the hollowness of his habitual pledges of investigation and accountability. Ethiopia, under his watch, has become a graveyard of unkept promises and unpunished atrocities. The massacre at Ziquala, like the countless other massacres targeting Amhara Orthodox Christians, is met with perfunctory expressions of regret, but no substantive action. The pattern is tragically clear: the state deploys rhetoric of national unity and piety while systematically abandoning entire communities to the predations of militias and state-affiliated death squads. The Prime Minister’s dismissive posture toward Ziquala underscores a moral chasm between his public declarations and the brutal reality on the ground, where religious sanctuaries have become sites of slaughter, desecration, and impunity.

III. Tigray, Global Indifference, and Abdication of Responsibility

In the third video, Abiy pivots to the specter of renewed conflict in Tigray, suggesting that the world will no longer heed the region’s plight as it once did. Invoking Sudan’s ongoing chaos and the distractions of global geopolitics, he frames potential war as a local matter, scarcely deserving external intervention. This rhetorical maneuver is profoundly cynical, as it trivializes human suffering and signals to belligerents that mass violence might now proceed without international scrutiny. It also conveniently absolves the federal government of its duty to prevent conflict through meaningful dialogue and genuine reconciliation. Abiy’s posture reveals a leader eager to distance himself from accountability, content to cast Ethiopia’s crises as mere background noise in a distracted world, while the nation teeters on the brink of further fragmentation and humanitarian disaster.

You ain't from Switzerland, boy!

https://youtube.com/shorts/a1UH9PoKZ9Q? ... IhN0V1hHB3

DefendTheTruth wrote: ↑

07 Jul 2025, 15:14

Why was the old man so insecure and have to spend the good part of "his speech" talking about the "unsettled" instead of saying few things about his own sing-a-poor on the "national independence" day of the same sing-a-poor?

Let's keep singing sing-a-poor is alright, everything is going well over there, nothing is in short-supply. Sing-a-Poor!
Are you happy with that?
What a dumb-head!

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

07 Jul 2025, 09:58

I knew you would come back to factory reset.

"The lake", is unsettled already. The creatures within it, are eating each other.

DefendTheTruth wrote: ↑

07 Jul 2025, 06:19

This is called keep l*cking one's own wound, which the subject has inflicted on oneself.

Yes, you are destined to remain a pond (metaphorically speaking) that keeps trying to unsettle the lake, in vain.

This is one more way of stating it brilliantly!

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

06 Jul 2025, 16:29

Abiy Ahmed: The Messianic Delusion of the Sick Man of the Horn.

I. Lakes, Ponds, and Irredentist Fantasies

In the first video, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ventures into geopolitical metaphor, likening Ethiopia to a vast lake and dismissing neighboring sovereign states as mere ponds. Such rhetoric is not merely grandiose but perilously destabilizing. It signals an irredentist posture fundamentally at odds with the principles of the United Nations Charter, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, and binding bilateral agreements, particularly with Eritrea. The Prime Minister’s assertion that Ethiopia “must have access to the sea” under threat of regional instability is an open affront to international law, which recognizes the sovereign territorial integrity of states and prescribes diplomacy as the avenue for economic cooperation, including port access. To reduce entire nations to peripheral puddles in Ethiopia’s hydrological imagination is a dangerous minimization of the agency, sovereignty, and dignity of neighboring peoples. Such language betrays an imperial nostalgia utterly divorced from the complex interdependence and legal frameworks governing the Horn of Africa.

II. Ziquala Monastery and the Abyss of Impunity

The second video, wherein Abiy responds to the murder of an Orthodox monk at Ziquala Monastery, exposes the hollowness of his habitual pledges of investigation and accountability. Ethiopia, under his watch, has become a graveyard of unkept promises and unpunished atrocities. The massacre at Ziquala, like the countless other massacres targeting Amhara Orthodox Christians, is met with perfunctory expressions of regret, but no substantive action. The pattern is tragically clear: the state deploys rhetoric of national unity and piety while systematically abandoning entire communities to the predations of militias and state-affiliated death squads. The Prime Minister’s dismissive posture toward Ziquala underscores a moral chasm between his public declarations and the brutal reality on the ground, where religious sanctuaries have become sites of slaughter, desecration, and impunity.

III. Tigray, Global Indifference, and Abdication of Responsibility

In the third video, Abiy pivots to the specter of renewed conflict in Tigray, suggesting that the world will no longer heed the region’s plight as it once did. Invoking Sudan’s ongoing chaos and the distractions of global geopolitics, he frames potential war as a local matter, scarcely deserving external intervention. This rhetorical maneuver is profoundly cynical, as it trivializes human suffering and signals to belligerents that mass violence might now proceed without international scrutiny. It also conveniently absolves the federal government of its duty to prevent conflict through meaningful dialogue and genuine reconciliation. Abiy’s posture reveals a leader eager to distance himself from accountability, content to cast Ethiopia’s crises as mere background noise in a distracted world, while the nation teeters on the brink of further fragmentation and humanitarian disaster.

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

07 Jul 2025, 15:37

You ain't from Switzerland, boy!

In fairness, he didn’t say he is from Switzerland or wants to be like Switzerland. He is just reporting that it is not forgotten to say sovereign.

He continuously calls my country poor, as if he's from Switzerland himself. That was my point.

Naga Tuma wrote: ↑

08 Jul 2025, 07:16

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

07 Jul 2025, 15:37

You ain't from Switzerland, boy!

In fairness, he didn’t say he is from Switzerland or wants to be like Switzerland. He is just reporting that it is not forgotten to say sovereign.

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እንቁራሪት:- ሞኝሽን ፈልጊ ልትነድፊኝ!

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