Thread by @dbeniam

What's happening in Ethiopia?
When a boat the "EVERGREEN" on March 24 clogged the Suez canal, damages were calculated at $400 million an hour or $9.6 Billion a day, with the cost of crude oil and other goods hiking across western countries.

Delays in goods of up to 10 days for ships that detoured around the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and logistics that will take months to correct.

The Suez canal is a critical artery for 12% of international trade. How important? Its so important that the US in 1967 considered nuking an alternative route through Israel. businessinsider.co.za/us-planned-sue…

The Suez is important to the US for the passage of military ships, and for the Arabs because 80% of their oil passes through there...which is why, by extension, the Bab-el-Mandeb strait in the HOA is CRITICAL to them!
[read full report maritime-executive.com/editorials/the… ]

Elizabeth White is a former Australian Defense official askes the question "Who is going to lead" monopolizing the Red Sea gate, and votes for foreign western powers to take the lead. Out of the blue comes an African answer: “Horn of Africa Cooperation”.

This places Africans in control of THEIR OWN RED SEA. This is not an idea that is yet to come. Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia have already signed agreements on Jan 27, 2020
theafricareport.com/40994/horn-of-…

This is why the foreign powers and media have been blasting cooked up fake evidence to get UN Security Council in Ethiopia. It is to break up this new regional bloc that will command 12% of global trade outside of the influence of foreign powers, or worse, align with China.

Yemen rebel groups have for years extorted money and favors from bigger powers simply for threatening to shutdown the Bab-el-Mandeb, imagine what a regional African block that size could do?
reuters.com/article/us-yem…

This Red Sea African coalition has shaken the west so much that when recently there were talks of Federation between Ethiopia and Eritrea. The US embassy of Eritrea immediately posted "birthday wishes" TWO MONTH EARLY!

So keep in mind the Red Sea gate the west desires to control and let me introduce you to Herman J. Cohen, the man that made this possible. While the US chose to pay $1.5 Billion to Egypt ANNUALLY for influence over the Suez, the US used a different approach for Bab-el-Mandeb.

It chose to destabilize the region. Mr. Cohen who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and eager to end Ethiopian hegemony on the Red Sea called for TPLF rebels to enter the capital and control it. [excerpt washingtonpost 1991]

With the U.S. collaboration TPLF would create a US sanctioned and approved constitution for Ethiopia. you can read more at [1991 washingtonpost]: washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…

Just to be absolutely clear that the US could IN NO WAY be an unbiased mediator. The New Yorks Times in their 1991 article records this observation by Mr Cohen.
Read the article at: nytimes.com/1991/05/30/wor…?

This was all done under US supervision in the may 27 London Conference of 1991 where Mr. Cohen lead the US mediation amongst different contesting groups. Where Cohne famously said "No democracy, no cooperation,".

That cooperation apparently included adopting the Yugoslavia Ethnic Federation. Not only, but copying Yugoslavia's article for ethnic groups to secede. The only African country in Africa and the World to do this.

What is of critical importance here is that the Ethiopian constitution was proposed in 1994 and adopted in 1995. But, by 1991 Yugoslavia was already engaged in a full blown GENOCIDAL war and dissolved along ethnic lines. Which mean TPLF and the US knew full well the consequences.

This nefarious plan of destabilizing the HOA through TPLF was working until the Abiy reform came. As such it became of the utmost importance to take down Abiy, and a world wide effort was launched so successful that it became its own undoing, see for yourselves:

While it is healthy to criticize the Prime Minister and even oppose him, Abiy can't possibly be an Amhara lackey ethnically cleansing Oromos...while also being an Oromo lackey ethnically cleansing Amharas.

These foreign funded propaganda have one purpose only, to delegitimize the 2021 elections and destabilize the region as a whole. So why are former enemies TPLF and OLF working together to dismantle the upcoming elections?

The new parliament is likely to upgrade the Ethiopian constitution to the level of African countries, this would outlaw and criminalize TPLF/OLF and all their supporters. Take Ghana for example:

or Kenya

If Ethiopia follows suite, then the era of race based politics comes to an end! All in all, an upcoming election and a new regional bloc has generated so much fear that domestic and foreign efforts are being made to wreak havoc and derail this process.