Thread by @dbeniam

Hello Ethiopia, Sanctions are coming.

Despite their best efforts the US could neither resurrect the TPLF nor stop the upcoming election. Ethiopia seems unshakably fixed on a course to the most pivotal elections in its history and critical overhaul of the Ethiopian constitution.

There has been zero political support by the US and Europe for the upcoming elections, in fact, they have called for it's cancellation. Europe attempting to diminish the international credibility of the elections by withdrawing its observers, although now they are reconsidering.

Ethiopia has announced that national dialogue will be held after the elections. The dialogue is expected to generate a national consensus on the future of Ethiopia. The US has been fighting, unsuccessfully, to have the dialogue before elections.

The reason was to have TPLF and other likeminded ethnically motivated parties to save the current constitution. As it stands, only elected representatives will participate. In essence these far-right fascist parties shot themselves in the foot by withdrawing from the elections.

Barred from ground invasion by Russia and China at the UN security council, the US has brought out its favorite tool from its political bag: they passed resolutions that will open the way to put sanctions on Ethiopia.

But this will only work to Ethiopia's advantage. Ethiopia is currently discovering itself. With no help from the west, in fact opposition, Ethiopia is safely negotiating the GERD. A mega project void of Foreign help, a testimony of possibilities that Ethiopia harbors in itself.

Ethiopia, of its own accord, has upgraded Wheat harvest tech to the point that Foreign import will no longer be necessary and our use of limited hard currency to import wheat was really a waste of money over the past three decades.

Ethiopia planted a record number of trees and is on track to plant 6 billion more this year. Initiative, execution, and budget all Ethiopian.

The Entoto and Unity park have been a showcase of Ethiopian only infrastructure initiative with zero parts imported from Foreign countries. All in all, Ethiopia is not only realizing it has everything it needs to prosper within it's border, but its actually capitalizing on it.

Any sanctions will only accelerate this process of self discovery. The greatest victory for Ethiopia would be an agricultural revolution followed by an industrial revolution. Ethiopia is rising, and a culture and economy built on receiving handouts is finally coming to an end.

The US may hide behind "crimes against humanity" excuses, but the truth is the US has its own political and military interest in the Horn of Africa region that was served by a dependent Ethiopia through TPLF.

Ethiopia is in a painful process of removing all chains of dependency.