Ethiopia's 2 brigades stayed in South Sudan for the last 9 years and earned Ethiopia 100s of millions of dollars of income for Ethiopia. Ethiopia competed against many countries in the world to win this lucrative position which begets Ethiopia and its soldiers hard currency income and prestige. The soldiers who serve there rotate every few yeas so that as many Ethiopians as possible get good income and improve their financial future specially during retirement. Even the Ethiopian military hard ware and guns that are with the troops in Abiye earn Ethiopia very good monthly income., Meshrefet is now so scared of losing the war, he has decided to bring them back home but I'm sure they will be so pi'ssed off on him, instead of fighting for him they may fight against him. And no doubt, the Tigrean soldiers who are the most experienced among them, will be put in detention camps coz he will be scared to let them join his offensive on Tigray. he has already put several thousand Tigrean soldiers and officers Dedesa and Blatie training camps.
This is the first tie in UN history for a country to end its peacekeeping position before the mission is completed. There is also rumor the 4,000 Ethiopian troops in Somalia will be pulled out by Meshrefet.. who already pulled out the Tigreans in that contingent.... one of the worst forms of Ethnic profiling in history. There is no doubt Meshrefet has brain tumor or something worse.