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[DefendTheTruth]

Videos coming from the scene on the ground show that this is the case. In this case they have indeed met their goal.

They have plundered the areas they occupied as if there is no tomorrow.

[sarcasm]

Liberating Western Tigray from invading forces of Amhara and Eritrean armies is the main driver of the current TDF incursions into Amhara region. Restoration of Status Quo Ante is a standard textbook conflict resolution condition which every international org, government or mediator supports. The other alternative is to allow the warring parties to keep territorial gains achieved in the conflict. Such arrangement would be a recipe for future wars, though.

The below comment in other threads really summarizes how a return to status quo ante would end the military conflict.

If the Amhara regional government withdraws from western Tigray, the war is effectively over. That would be so because all parties would automatically lose any reason to continue the war.

1 - Amhara government will have no reason to fight Tigray region if the land issue is referred to arbitration. They have no other conflict.

2 - PM Abiy will not have the main support base from Amhara. Again, what would be his reason to fight? To uphold democracy? He can't justify armed suppression as a way to uphold democracy. So, he will have no reason to fight.

3 - TDF can't justify waging a war to unseat a government. It would have to return to Tigray and engage in political dialog. The world would not support an armed undertaking to change the government.

4 - Isaias can't continue the war because Abiy and Amhara regional govts will no longer require his mercenary services and the UN will be against it any way.

So, all eyes are on Wolqait, Tsegedie and Kefta Humera. A region of roughly 400.000 people comprising 92% ethnic Tigrayans and 6% ethnic Amhara and 2% other. It was known as a region of Begemder province before the ethnic federalism but fell to Tigray region by the new federal constitution.

The land dispute is causing the Amhara to lend their support to the Unitarian PMAA and causes the Tigrayans to oppose PMAA's undermining of the federal arrangement.

If the land is resolved, the problem is resolved. All other issues can only be solved legally for there to be international support.

[Noble Amhara]

Lair stupid animal TPLF couldn’t touch Welkait the best it could do is invade undefended fronts and still failed why does TPLF have 2,000 soldiers in wollo ? Why so scared of Welkait ? Is it because you peee your pants when you hear arbegna Isaias Afwerki army is there!

Tigray adwa expansionist

Welkait is Gondar!

[DefendTheTruth]

3 - TDF can't justify waging a war to unseat a government. It would have to return to Tigray and engage in political dialog. The world would not support an armed undertaking to change the government.

Well, it has not achieved that goal and got the land but still was forced to abandon its attack on the Afar region, isn't it? What explains that?

Harchummen maal balleessa, goes an old adage in Afan Oromo (ልምጭ ምን ያጠፋል?)

If TPLF doesn't want to behave well, then it will be made to behave well (using the right ልምጭ).

[Noble Amhara]

92% Tigrayan safaris from adwa and shire the newest are there grandparents that migrated as labourers into kafta Humera for work and wages on Amhara people’s farms. Let’s not forget that TPLF pushed Welkait people into Sudan and Gondar on purpose around 400,000 amahra of Welkait were sent to Gondar and Gojjam. And stole millions of hectares from Amhara people. Look at Tigray maps they even claim armachiho! There is no such thing as western tigray! Period

All those displaced Tigrayans were living on farms they stole from Amhara gonderes! There is no Tigray Genocide! It is just reverse racism

Tigray are land grabbing colonizers