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This comes at a time when we read in the media about the so called Egypt-Saudi Arabia-Somalia trio military alliance in the region.

Against whom is the alliance?

Let me try to refurbish my reading ability of a text in English (knowledge).

Let me first and foremost state that a letter would be addressed to somebody in order to urge or ask somebody for or towards something, isn't it?

This letter was addressed to the Egyptian president, while maintaining a degree of politeness on the part of the sender. Not to an Ethiopian leader, PM or President.

If this is the case and somebody doesn't have a different view, then why did President Trump wanted to urge (or at least ask/request) the President of Egypt, if the man is indeed the victim like many claims from the direction of Egypt try to portray?

In my view President Trump has figured out that the trouble maker in the negotiation process is the Egyptian side, which has shifted diametrically from the publicly stated stand point of "they may bomb the dam" during his first presidency.

The letter can only make a sense, when understood in the sense of my interpretation/understanding. President Trump told the Egyptian President you have failed while pursuing the wrong path, so far. So, I would like to help you, where you so far failed, by helping you to resolve the issue responsibly.

President Trump went further and decided to humiliate the Egyptian counterpart by saying "I want to help you achieve an outcome that assures the water needs of Egypt,the Republic of the Sudan, and Ethiopia long into the future" (this is called "equitable sharing", which has been the position of Ethiopian negotiators all along). So, the president lectured the Egyptian President in public to forget about the colonial era mantra of the past, we want to handle for the future.

This is the core message of the letter and it reflects the position maintained by Ethiopia from the onset of the negotiation process.

The President of America, went further and told the man in Cairo, to swallow the truth and accept the proposal on this line, else warned him to drop his war mongering rhetoric by politely telling him "I very much hope... not to lead to a major Military conflict" (this is an instruction, not a request for my English).

This could have been achieved only by the soft diplomacy of Ethiopian Airlines (Boeing) or, if you like the addition of the Israeli side.

Ethiopia has defeated her adversaries, by working hard at home.