• DankZedong
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    191 year ago

    Sankara: I want to fix Africa!

    Westoid: Nah, not like that. We need more imaginary lines that make no sense.

  • @cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    121 year ago

    Of course they want to balkanize Ethiopia. Their TPLF puppets failed to get this done for them but they still can’t let go of the obsession with destroying the one African nation that defied European colonialism.

    • @Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml
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      51 year ago

      The Tigray and Oromo movements are better than the centralist government, tbh.

      When they get a Peace Prize and proceed to massacre their people, you knwo they are western tools.

      • @cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        How are the central government tools of same West that has been funding, arming and backing the TPLF (which by the way started the conflict and has been committing most of the massacres)? Maybe at one point the West were hopeful for the new government being yet another one of their puppets and tried pre-emptively bribing them with awards, but it is clear they have long since turned on them. And please tell me when has Balkanization ever benefited a country?

        This is just more divide and conquer by the imperialists. If Ethiopia is fractured along ethnic lines like Yugoslavia the result will be equally disastrous, devastating for the economy, triggering decades of conflict and ending with a bunch of Western puppet regimes/military bases like the Balkan pseudo-statelets surrounding and choking the core of the old multi-ethnic state to ensure it never re-constitutes itself.

        Currently Ethiopia is big enough to be a significant regional power and a great economic partner for China in the region, hence why the US wants to destroy it or bring back the divisive and totally US subservient TPLF to power. A strong central government in this case is a good thing, it means less chances for the US to drive a wedge between the regions, playing them off against each other and weakening the country as a whole.

        There is not and there will never be a legitimate reason to break up Ethiopia, it is the only African country whose borders are (mostly… the European colonialists still managed to steal their coastline and turn it into protectorates and colonies that they could control) not a result of European colonialism. It is one of the only non-artificially constructed states on the continent with a history going back more than a thousand years.

  • How the hell did they justify to themselves that they could explain changing every single border in a whole continent in 11 minutes?

    In a practical setting, if we’ve got some commons sense, every border suggestion would need to be debated for weeks. Every settlement, every area, every grain of land would need to have the suggested changes justified according to their history, identity, and relations with their neighbours. This isn’t a simple matter and anything some anglo dickhead can come up with on the toilet is a non-contribution.