im sure you guys follow people who recently started to mindlessly drool over the tweets from bad actors like simon tesfamariam also.
the whole imperialist angle is dogshit too. 18 months ago ethiopia was a western darling since they privatized the economy and detatched from the massively pro-china tplf. there is no imperialist onslaught here. also, eritrea under afwerki have invaded all their neighbours and hosted military bases for UAE in their genocidal war on the zaidis. yeah, they're fucking buried in the sanction scheme. guess what? when you keep your soldiers as slaves and refuse to even pretend to hold elections for 20 years, you will get sanctioned without any ulterior motives. also somewhat bizarre to hear Puryear try to mention development metrics that are better than some warzone countries in central africa when eritrea on the other hand have the lowest information infrastructure in the world (probably intentionally so).
invaded? that's what we're gonna call the 1998 war? :doubt: eritrea is doing siege socialism so still critical support, sure the military conscription and lack of leadership renewal are dogshit but until recently there were real threats to their territory integrity (which also explains the somali affair and the djibouti tensions). the TPLF is also a bad actor because it stoked sectarianism when it was in power and wielded disproportionate military power, the best would be tigray autonmy/independence but barring that the UN needs to be involved, no shit Eritrea tries to keep a mortal enemy at bay and is shoring up an ally if there is no one else to do it and no other regional allies
i guess this is akin to the rationale behind all this.
you have to make some pretty impressive logic leaps to call the djibouti invasion a response to "threats to territorial integrity". same for calling them siege socialist. almost every state does a little bit developmentalism in or outside a agrarian subsistence economy. crazy that stalinesque national autonomism is bad when orientals do it! smells like a paper thin cope to avoid dealing with propagandification at home
i wouldn't call it an invasion, since it was just a hilltop, but yeah isolated actors are not always the most rational. The issue with the tplf was always that they tried to dominate other ethiopian regions, not their autonomy. but I am not sure i got the second part of your comment tbh
to make a bit of a pointed remark; one can pretty much convince ultratankies to support any horrific non-western dictatorship. almost every state does some kind of developmentalism, and by selectively presenting this you can claim critical support for building siege socialism in any state.. we've probably seen the same propaganda, you know, "eritrean state does some irrigation project", "eritrean state sends slave soldiers to build water retention walls on hilltops". so on and so forth. the last bit in my comment was about needing to deal with the fact (?) that our infosphere is being used for malicious propaganda purposes. this is different from propaganda in defense of evo morales or in defense of syria under attack. need to be dealt with instead of excusing it by this reaching
man I know Eritrea is not a worker paradise, I look at facts and potential, ie they do have a very large state ownership and a lot of tools that would be very useful for developping socialism, even the idea of slotting people into government jobs isn't bad in and of itself. Even China isn' what we want now, we're all looking for their 2050 agenda, and eritrea is barely out of siege. If the president finally changes and the conscription system is reigned, which gets likelier as the situation stabilizes, we couldvery well see a new addition to the very short list of Actually Cool and Good Nations
all things point to afwerki grooming his son to inherit his personal dictatorship.
so you say, we'll see but if the party is strong enough he won't be able to make any demand
i didnt say personal dictatorship purely as polemics. there's no party. they all got the wall after the charter movement and the war. its been 20 years since that and .. nothing
again it was siege socialism until fairly recently and even now there are clear regional instabilities, once it dies down we'll see what the leadership actually looks like, if he stays in then i'll have to agree with you, the action from the tlpf undermined any peaceful transition of power though, like it undermined cohabitation in ethiopia
Can I see some?