One can’t be wrong at home and right abroad!
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Some Ethiopians think that Abiy’s overtures to invade and annex Eritrea/Asab will bring about benefits to the very same people he is oppressing, abusing, and destroying through his wars of genocide. They don’t even realise that his (mis)adventures abroad are a calculated move to consolidate his power to eliminate his internal opponents. (This was what all successive regimes of the Ethiopian Empire have been doing since the late 19th century: conscripting the international (recognition, prestige, money, weapons, and support) to destroy the opponents at the national level. (More on this later—in an extended piece!)
But we should always remember:
If illegitimate at home, so are you abroad.
If genocidal/criminal at home and lack legal/political/moral clout at home for that reason, so are you abroad.
If colonial oppression is to be resisted at home, so should invasion and annexation/occupation of another country’s territories abroad.
A genocider’s delusional (and illegal) claim of another country’s port does not suddenly (and automatically) turn him into a saint.
"The tragedy of the contemporary Ethiopian state is its complete inability to look past its imperial blueprint. Just as it seeks to domesticate, discipline, and balkanize the ethno-national groups within its frontiers, it seeks to discipline its neighbours through geopolitical bullying. … True stability in the Horn of Africa will never be built upon the grand delusions of an un-decolonised empire."
Tsegaye R Ararssa
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