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).
thank you for this at times valuable correction to my posts. Listen, I'd love nothing more to be wrong here. That last reuters link is hopeful. But I gotta say some of this reads like pure shilling, dude. Downplay abiys liberalisation and try to salvage the argument for political participation in Eritrea? that's a doubter. Also TPLF sucking up all wealth is a bit overstated. Development metrics but them better off than some regions, but its gambela and the capital region that really benefit while the ogaden got left in the murk. Also, Abiy is not a democratizer. That election is horseshit, and he only got the driver's wheel by intra-statal fanctionalism. Zero democracy there, period. Are you from Afar? If you have more intimate knowledge here Im all game! Absolutely hit me up.