Mereja Forum

[Abe Abraham]

While the Ethiopians have a right to have an alliance even with the devil, one wonders when they will ever learn that sometimes being firm against their "allies" wishes would pay them much more than remaining subservient to them.
Does the Ethiopian government still believe that appeasing the greedy western governments is its lifeline?
Based on the West's advice, does the Abiy Administration still believes appeasing the ever-criminal Weyanes would land her the West's love and support?
Do the Ethiopian authorities believe giving indefinite time to the implementation of the "Pretoria" agreement is going make Ethiopia the the "Darling" of the West by failing to the agreement implementation when the Weyanes are clearly dragging their feet?

The Americans are using money and other means of blackmailing to force the Ethiopian government into subservience. Egypt is also being put under pressure to send its soldiers to fight Iran in exchange for money. Until now the Egyptians are resisting and displaying some backbo youne because they know that they can not take unacceptable risks.
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What is the point of always walking around with clenched fists and get old when you can relax and walk around jovially smiling big with freely hanging relaxed hands on both sides of the body with open fists.

International relations needs to be interdependent in which case you offer/rent what you have and on what issues you have more strength than others. Similarly the other party may also willingly offer some thing over which it has enough strength and resourcefulness. Even the Economic Theory of Comparative Advantage is based on such mutual interdependence principle.

This means that you may give or hire some important strategic location which the other one does not have while the other party can print lots of green gold and send to you in very large bags because you neither have the license nor the advanced technologies for printing green Gold. This is an age old principle of scratching their back while they may scratch your back in return. So, why make it necessarily complicated and have headache?

The West seems to have problem with your reasonable statement.

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