Why Is Eritrea Demonized By the West?
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Eritrea is the most demonized and sanctioned African country. Why? It's not human rights abuses because there are far worse governments the U.S. supports. Er...

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).

    • sagarmatha [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      so you say, we'll see but if the party is strong enough he won't be able to make any demand

      • cokedupchavez [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        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

        • sagarmatha [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          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