Peoples Front: A Movement dedicated to the righteous cause of resisting forceful annexation: & it delivered #Eritrea’s statehood, inspiring other freedom fighters.
Peoples Front: first to endorse #Russia’s forceful annexation of #Crimea#Ukraine (2014) because it’s 🇺🇸 fault.
Green. Red. Yellow. 143-5-3. Even #China, #Russias alleged BFF, abstains, not cross all the way to crazy town to endorse forceful annexation: an anathema to #Eritrea|s recent birth pangs. The excuse is worse than the act: the devil (America) made #Russia do it.
Our vote appears to be a bet on the emerging amoral multipolar world order. And #Eritrea shall be a founding member, the tip of the spear of this “You Do You” New World Order.
We can’t change #Eritrea without first changing the world.
Onward! Onward! Mendelay,
marching as to war,
with a shovel strapped on one shoulder and AK on the other,
Deqi Halal we reign forevermore.
The goal of the struggle is to Struggle to overturn the Unipolar world.
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In another tweet which I will append below, I write about the dizzying diplomacy that #Eritrea#Sudan#Somalia#SouthSudan are going thru. Here, I am going to include momentous changes all happening at once. A New World Order?
“Last week, #SaudiArabia and #Iran announced that they would reëstablish diplomatic relations after seven years of severed ties. The two nations pledged to reopen their embassies and also agreed to begin coöperating in areas such as security and trade.”
(3) Then #SouthKorea and #Japan decided that focus on the future is more paramount than letting your interpretation of history keep u estranged for 12 yrs. #NorthKorea shot an ICBM to remind them yeah, we should meet.
1. Disclosure: I am on record as having said Statecraft is very hard. So critique of #Eritrea prez is within context of “statecraft is hard, but he makes it harder.” Let’s discuss today’s show (not interview) whose topics covered role of investment, including FDI, in economy.
2. Of the many levers used for economic development and which ones to prioritize, choosing is hard because everything is a priority in subsistence economies. Economics not being a hard science (and even its social science status being questionable) it’s a lot of trial and error.
3. In #Eritrea, it’s all trial and all error because this not-really-a-science field (economics) is at the mercy of another not-really-a-science field (politics) which, being authoritarian cronyism, is less capable of auto-correcting. For example:
At Qatar, in response to #Eritrean opposition leader Isaias Afwerki who keeps trashing all the achievement of his government, Ambassador Sophia outlines all of them. Speaking of Qatar…. shabait.com/2023/03/08/sta…
2010: After two years of denying it had any disputes with #Djibouti and getting sanctioned for its refusal to mediate the dispute, #Eritrea accepts Qatar mediation for its dispute with #Djibouti
2010-2017: #Eritrea and #Qatar have right relationship with Qatar Airways picking the president for frequent “consultations” on “bilateral and regional issues.”
#Eritrea|s ambassador to #Sudan has been #Eritrea|s ambassador to #Sudan for 20 years and he has been saying the same thing he has been saying for 20 years: enemies, መኸተ, war….
… the ruling party’s decay is not just at the chairman (Isaias) level but also like him, since 1994:
Political director: Yemane Gebreab
Economic director: Hagos Ghebrehiwet
National Security: Abraha Kassa
Cultural Affairs: Zemehret Yohannes
Secretary: Alamin Mohammed Seid
Of the last two named, one is dead and the other is frozen but as in with legendary basketball players who jersey is retired, with #PFDJ, some of the positions are forever retired….
1. A government which disowns its people the minute they show any sign of independence.
2. An opposition that is not able to prove itself as viable entity with organizational discipline.
You get an embittered, misled, disenfranchised youth.
This is what has happened to #Eritrea|ns: youth were, via perpetual war and indefinite conscription, forced labor and economic paralysis, losing agency over their own life, forced to leave their county: 608,000 by 2019:
For a brief period (2015-16) when the #PFDJ hierarchy was terrified of being indicted for crimes against humanity, it promised it would limit national conscription, but once that danger was lifted, it went back to its predatory practices
How many young #Ethiopia|ns & #Eritrea|ns enlisted or conscripted in the ENDF, ASF, TDF, EDF have been killed in the stupid war? Until we ask, and insist on an answer, the war will not stop. #HowManyDied?
If are comforted by the lullabies of your side (whichever side you are on),remember the 98-00 #Eritrea-#Ethiopia “border war” was 24 months of standstill interrupted by 1 month (cumulative) of battle. 100,00 young lives perished then! The current war is 4 months of non-stop war.
The horrific violations against civilians, including children 👇🏾will be accounted for because there are reporters and advocacy groups that will insist on it. But how will those addicted to claiming they won disclose what the cost of the “winning” was and who will make them?