Posted on 11/05/2021 6:01:13 PM PDT by dynachrome
he US State Department is now urging all Americans in Ethiopia to leave the war-torn country “as soon as possible”. This after the US Embassy in Addis Ababa previously posted a “do not travel” advisory to its official website and began making preparations of its own to evacuate non-essential staff.
At the start of this week, the Ethiopian government went so far as to tell residents of the capital city of some 5 million people to start arming themselves as rebel Tigrayan fighters began a march southward from their northern enclave, with plans to overthrow the government under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at zububrothers.com ...
You obviously know nothing about Ethiopia.
“Question: Why did Mussolini want that country?”
Ethiopian natural resources...
Metallic minerals (gold, platinum, iron, nickel, chromite, copper and base metals)
Fertilizer raw minerals (potash and phosphate)
Gemstones (sapphires, emeralds, fiery opals)
oil by 253 million tonnes of oil shales and more than 300 million tonnes of coal and natural gas.
Major exports are coffe, tea, maté and spices
Maté...
https://the.republicoftea.com/tea-library/herbal-tea-and-tisanes/what-is-mate-3/
I’m just glad that the Ethiopians that I know are safely here.
They are among the finest human beings that I’ve known.
Ethiopia is experiencing a genocide. Committed against Tigrayans.
By the states of Ethiopia and Eritrea and the government of the Amhara region.
And it’s going on for over a year now.
And as they depart, they turn to the Ethiopian people one last time and say, “Abyssinia...”
Now Kenya’s going to fall? Really Bidung? What a train wreck.
Everyone will now be mobilized and all boys old enough to carry a spear will be sent to Addis Ababa.
Married men will take their wives to carry food and to cook. Those without wives will take a woman without a husband.
Women with small babies need not go.
The blind, those who cannot walk or for any reason cannot carry a spear are exempted.
Anyone found at home after receipt of this order will be hanged.
When Ethiopia goes to war they do not mess around.
“Muslims 33.9%.....”
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I think I see the problem.....
I don’t judge individual people - or the Spirits of any nation - by their lowest products. (If I did, my own beloved Country would come up sorely lacking.)
I know a little about war in Ethiopia. One of my friends has told stories of her mother putting the children under mattresses when the gunfire was raging outside their home.
Another who came here as a political refugee despised Obama, and had no problem with expressing that opinion. I’m pretty sure he’s voted Conservative ever since he became a citizen.
Ethiopia was one of the first nations to adopt Christianity as their State Religion, and Christians still represent the majority there - and they take it seriously.
There are a lot of very good people in that ‘craphole’ nation.
Well I have difficulty distinguishing who the good guys are from the bad. They all play for keeps and it’s bloody against anyone who steps in their way.
It has sounded to me like Biden’s for the terrorists and supplying weapons there...but who knows for sure. This administration are such horrible liars.
Don’t listen to Biden. He doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing. He’s a puppet on a string.
Sam Kinison said the same thing 30 years ago.
Well I don’t think he’s even a puppet anymore.....they can’t seem to control him much with all the blunders he’s making. He’s a mess and everyone knows it.
I asked one of my friends who grew up there what the climate was like in Addis Ababa; she said, ‘the weather is always PERFECT!’
I think my favorite things about Ethiopia are the ‘underground’ rock-carved churches at Lalibela -
- and the language: it’s very musical.
“I’m just glad that the Ethiopians that I know are safely here.
They are among the finest human beings that I’ve known.“
I have known several immigrants from Somalia too. Solid citizens that are very happy to be here.
I’ve known Nigerians like that, too.
(I know that there are a lot of stories about Nigerian scammers, and I’ve even suffered from one who specialized in auto-traffic stuff. But the good ones I’ve known have highly prized Honesty.)
Water wars of the 21st century. It’s real it’s here and it’s growing. The future is resources. The war will be be total and complete. I am still amazed by the future wars that I should be long dead for. Exponentially expanding conflicts that I will not outlive. I am truly sorry to our younger Americans. You will grow through fire. Sorry!
While actually quite advanced as a nation, Ethiopia is literally in a hot civil war type mess.
WhileM not alone, keep in mind the TPLF were led by hard left Marxist and WHO head Tedros for decades, and they are again raping anything with legs, and destroying whatever they can find.
Then there is the usual conflicted hard left socialist Clinton/Obama type US administration, pushing African nations into Putins sphere.
Think “Arab Spring”, only this time its Ethiopia and Nigeria, (ALSO synonymous with the Obama/Clinton “Vatican Spring” essentially getting rid of Benedict and replacing him with hard left social and political marxist, and Putin loving, actually Italian derived Bergoglio/Francis, who was involved with the KGB/FSB spread of liberation theology throughout Latin America). And this was happening while Clinton/Obama were heavy into Uranium 1, and the far worse Skolkovo Project, even while Putin was taking Eastern Ukraine and the entire Northern Black Sea.
“Ethiopia felt the U.S. in particular was aligning with Egypt, [oddly enough, Russia has now once again become dominant geopolitically and militarily in Egypt as well], in the ongoing dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken further evoked the ire of Addis Ababa in March by accusing forces in Tigray of “ethnic cleansing.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov then met with Ethiopian counterpart Demeke Mekonnen in June. Moscow proceeded with the deployment of election observers to Ethiopia, whereas the EU withdrew its observers, citing “ongoing violence across the country, human rights violations and political tensions, harassment of media workers and detained opposition members.”
SOCHI, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 23, 2019: Ethiopia’ Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (4th L) and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (2nd R) during Russian-Ethiopian talks on the sidelines of the 2019 Russia-Africa Summit at the Sirius Park of Science and Art.
Russia has supplied strategic weapons both as a potential defense against any Egyptian strike on the GERD and to aid government forces in Tigray.
“Gains by the Tigray Defence Force (TDF), which has captured parts of the Afar and Amhara regions in recent weeks, make the provision of desperately needed weapons all the more important for Addis Ababa, and Moscow is likely to oblige to such a request, possibly on a buy-now-pay-later basis,” said Louw Nel, senior political analyst at NKC African Economics.
In what Nel flagged as a “sign of things to come,” Ethiopia and Russia signed a military cooperation agreement in July, focused specifically on knowledge and technology transfers.”
Normally a horrible source, yet somewhat correct on some of the points in this mess - https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/other/who-is-fighting-the-war-in-ethiopia/ar-AAQhNGI
23 various minerals are available in Ethiopia so someone is making money by being there.
Afghanistan is full of various rare minerals and is why Russia, then the U.S. and now China have been there.
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