They are already hinting some of the instruments to use for such objective, including some politicians and officials from the neighboring countries and well-established media outlets for the propaganda part.
Just before few weeks they were claiming about supporting Ethiopia in its needs to safeguard its development initiatives, they appeared to have taken the side of Ethiopia when President Tramp infamously suggested that Egypt will bomb the dam Ethiopia is building on its own river to support its own economic development and pull its vast citizens out of poverty.
Now they have just cut the aid they promised to give to Ethiopia by over 90 million Euros, claiming they couldn't access people whom they wanted to deliver aid to in Ethiopia (and flow of refugees was hindered).
EU postpones $109 million aid to Ethiopia over Tigray access
The same EU that has been advocating over long time flow of refugees has to be curbed now came back and said officially that the flow of refugees shouldn't be hindered, hypocrisy at its highest level.
Once we have just removed a weak-link in our internal cohesion which was presented by the selfish TPLF junta, now another weak-link is emerging in the same inernal cohesion of the nation and external adversaries are readily trying to tap-in and use it for their own end-goal. The end-goal is to keep Ethiopia weak for the foreseeable future.The EU also seeks the government's assurance that civilians who want to seek refuge in neighboring countries are allowed to do so and that mechanisms are put in place to investigate allegations of human rights violations, he said.
An empowered Ethiopia will be an obstacle to their ambition of keeping the vast African continent under their domination. If both EU and AU are equally dominant in their respective domains, then Europe will see its ambition being curbed, so AU needs to be kept under check. The rising China has already dashed their hope to dominate the Asian continent and they don't want to see the same thing happen on the African continent.
Now the selfish Amhara political actors are creating a conducive environment to divide and weaken Ethiopia and thereby keep the rise of AU to promenence under control.
I said as a lazy man before that by just extinguishing the fire coming from TPLF and Shane Ethiopia will not succeed to secure its long-term security goal without doing the same with danger coming from Amhara extremists and show that you are even-handed on all sides.
Many Amhara activists like to claim that "Ethiopiawinet ke Zer belay new" and it is now time to walk the talk.
ETHNIC WARFARE
The Ethiopian army was not alone in waging war against the TPLF. Tigray’s neighbouring state, Amhara, joined the military campaign by deploying a mix of regular forces and ethnic militias. The Amhara want to settle a score with the TPLF. When the TPLF took power in 1991, this marked a departure from long-standing Amhara dominance of Ethiopia. And more recent territorial claims in western and southern Tigray have created a strong incentive for the Amhara to intervene. As the military campaign gathered pace, ethnic-based mobilisation grew with a series of [deleted]-for-tat attacks on civilians involving both Tigrayan and Amhara militias (although the details of these incidents remain murky due to a government blackout).
When the TPLF retreated, the Amhara drew in to occupy the contested territories in western and southern Tigray: Wolqayt, Tsegede, Tselemt, and Raya. This newfound influence was cemented by Amhara appointing administrators to these disputed territories.
The result is that Amhara state has all but absorbed nearly one-third of Tigray.