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15 Nov, 7 tweets, 4 min read
.@PowerUSAID
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#NoMore Power for Power: a few thoughts on @politico's article on Samantha Power

politi.co/3c8X4wD via @politico
1. The lady is an opportunist! She never took responsibility for Libya and chose to avoid the spotlight when things went south in Afghanistan. For @PowerUSAID, the much vaunted phrase #DoNoHarm applies only for one person. Herself!
2. Power looking for ways to embarrass GOE, early on in the conflict makes you wonder what kind of diplomacy she is practicing, especially when it comes to #Africa and also showcases her bias against #Ethiopia from the get go.
It also makes me wonder if some of the insulting tweets out of @USEmbassyAddis were part of Power's brand of diplomacy through bullying and insult.
3. Her close ties with the media lauded in the article makes Ethiopians more certain that their suspicions that the MSMs coordinating maligning of Ethiopia is being driven by @PowerUSAID and co.
4. You sense the frustration from USAID people on the ground and people @StateDept about Power blurring the boundary between aid and politics and if the situation in Ethiopia gets too hot to handle, Power will pull a Kabul & go radio silent; leaving the mess to @StateDept.
5. In conclusion, Power is only after one thing, MORE POWER & she has her eyes on more senior positions in the Biden adminstartion.

Bad news for Ethiopia! It's imperative that Ethiopians in Georgia & other states make sure Biden is a one term president.

#NoMore Power for Power

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1/This was a fascinating watch, as the interview went on @BeckyCNN got more and more incesnsed (a lot of eye rolling, face making and shouting) while @BilleneSeyoum kept hammering her points home with typical #Ethiopian dignity and a hint of bemusement. Ice cold!
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1/ @timnitGebru, the fatal flaw at the very heart of your reasoning is your decision to equate information from MSM with truth with regard to the conflict in N. Ethiopia, which begs the question:
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If your arbiters of absolute truth are these media outlets and this was at the time of the Iraqi war, you would have concluded that Iraq possessed WMDs!
If it was during the war on Libya, you would have endorsed the claim by Amnesty that soldiers of Gaddafi were being given free Viagra to encourage mass rape.
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