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Michael ስደት 🐝 Profile picture
Michael ስደት 🐝
@Sdet_M
ሓበሻ ኣይኮንኩን። Interest: migration, Horn, W Africa. No manners. Stop #TigrayGenocide #EritreansAreRefugees #fckRussia
Jan 29 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The term "pogrom" from a Historian of the Holocaust should normally be a wake-up call.

When Trump’s version of RSF turns up at Springfield, it will be because the place has shown that immigration works.

It will not be limited to Haitians, who are already leaving. Image Un pogrom contre les Haïtiens de Springfield s'inscrirait également dans une longue histoire de suprématisme blanc qui ne peut oublier ni admettre que les esclaves se sont libérés et ont par là même instauré l'universalité des Droits de l'homme, contrairement aux États-Unis. Image
Jan 4 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Good summary.

I still think we should talk much more about Nigeria, where the new imaginaire which may materialise into a world order was illustrated more clearly. The Mump imaginaire is a combination of Huntingtonian "clash", new age "Great Replacement" & suq al-siyasi (political marketplace). That shift is what Nigeria illustrates. Venezuela is just the marketplace so far. @HenningMelber @JKleinschmidtIR .

Dec 3, 2025 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
To study gold is to study armed groups, counterinsurgency including atrocities, and international relations. It isn't like oil, which makes and unmakes states, but mining companies from Russia, Canada, Australia, China are prepared to go to extreme lengths & to accept atrocities. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17ww8dv1rwo And environment. Gold mining is a completely unnecessary activity, globally. It's about finance, not technology. Some local populations get displaced, poisoned; some killed, enslaved. Some do it for survival, making 20$/day while companies make billions.
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May 6, 2025 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
So, Paris is waiting for Berlin to keep up EU connections in W Africa. But those are already, to use a common term, flawed. Germany shares some of France's problems but not its bad reputation. I will presently turn my attention to the Horn, but what is the common mistake? ⬇️ There are conceptual problems as well as more directly strategic ones. The eminent French political scientist, Jean-François Bayart, has pointed to both in a remarkable interview with @guillaumeerner . Let me mention the strategic ones first.

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Mar 27, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Die @GBA_b_BGH macht sich zum Instrument eines kremlnahen Regimes, bei dessen durch Proteste gestörten Veranstaltungen zum Genozid in Tigray UND der Ukraine aufgerufen u Flüchtlinge u bundesdt Schutz v eritr. Paramilitärs, Eriblood, mit Tod bedroht werden. Sachbesch. ≠ Terror. @GBA_b_BGH : Eritrea wird gerade nach Völkerstrafrecht in D angeklagt. Warum erfahren die Veranstaltungen und die paramilitärische Gruppe des Regimes EriBlood, deren Existenz in D kein Geheimnis ist, keinerlei strafrechtliche Verfolgung? Ist D souverän?

Oct 25, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
This is a very useful tweet, because it's utter nonsense. But being a genius, Kasparov - who was right on Putin all along & whom I admire - summarises the whole conundrum of silliness into one oxymoron:

"Correct sentiment".
Whatever does that mean?

Contemplate it for a moment. Now, I don't think it's got any precise meaning; obviously, a sentiment can be many things, including "true", but as opposed to "feigned" only. It can't be correct or false.
But isn't the whole current debate about having the correct sentiments?

"Unequivocally condemn" bla-bla.
Oct 1, 2023 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
Highly recommended thread and reading suggestions by @MauriceStierl , plus some copyrighted material from the world's leading handbook on migration sciences, The Age of Migration, which deserves to be read.
There is neither "pull" nor "push".

@gorden_isler @SeebrueckeFfm Image
Image Thankfully, the thread became an article.

It's notable that the Lampedusa tragedy 10 years ago included hundreds of Eritrean victims. Eritrea's state slavery is what they fled, so it prompted a strong reaction inside Eritrea. Let's pick the example:

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Apr 17, 2023 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
For a man who started his career as a génocidaire, as is the case with Hemedti, to say he was "fighting radicals" is a bit rich.

As exemplified on AJ, some Khartum politicians without knowledge of Darfur believe him though.

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Image Hemedti and Burhan are not opponents on any principle. They may be fighting for power at the centre, but it's a fight over distribution. Civilians and soldiers are collateral damage. Typical political marketplace behaviour. Everyone outside Khartum has seen it before.
Jan 18, 2023 • 31 tweets • 10 min read
Not the only one to bestsell racism in the form of "Africa will invade Europe". Macron's fav book on Africa is Smith's racist tract. They invent mass migration from Africa to fuel racist policies. Ignoring the starvation siege of Tigray is one of those.

laviedesidees.fr/Ou-va-la-fauss… x.com/Sdet_M/status/… Both Asfa-Wossen Asserate and Stephen Smith pretend there was an impending mass migration from black Africa to Europe. AWA sees it as the result of misery, SS of economic development. Both are utter nonsense. Scientific predictions are quite low.

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