BY ALMARIAM
PART ONE
… We Ethiopians have always been free. We will continue to be free. We may be poor today. Tomorrow, we shall prosper and become the crown jewel of Africa. We will set an example for the world. We shall teach these hubristic juveniles what it means to be an Ethiopian… Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, May 15, 2021 On the eve of her visit to Ethiopia, Samantha Power, USAID chief, all but declared war on Ethiopia. Power boldly declared, “All options are on the table because 900 thousand people are on the verge of famine in Tigray.” “All options are on the table” is diplomatic code phrase for war.
Transcript of video
It is a dire situation if ever there was one with a combination of systematic sexual violence, mass atrocities and the denial of food as a weapon of war. That is what we are talking about here. So to your question, every option is on the table because our estimates are 900,000 people in Tigray are at the risk of famine. That is not something we see lightly or our international partners see lightly.
The “F” word (famine) is a big deal and with the Ethiopian government’s withdrawal of its forces from Ethiopia (sic!) is declaration as they put it unilateral ceasefire and basically with the Tigreans taking back over security for the province what you have seen since that announcement roughly 2 weeks ago is bridges being destroyed, convoys being delayed, telecommunications equipment being confiscated.
You know all this. So the short answer is the challenges is the same Ethiopian government that is denying road access we need to get them to grant both road access where we can get in way more food and air access. And the question of airdrops arises which is something absolutely we may have to be in a position to… (Interrupted by interviewer)…
Talking about the “F” word, in my June 4, 2021 commentary, “Exposed: The Western conspiracy to weaponize famine for regime change in Ethiopia”, I demonstrated how the West, including the U.S. commodified famine to stoke the emotions of white people in America and Europe and excite outrage among them so that they demand action against Ethiopia in 1984.
Interestingly, in his May 26, 2021 Statement Biden parroted Power’s words, “The large-scale human rights abuses taking place in Tigray, including widespread sexual violence, are unacceptable and must end…” On April 7, 2021, Egyptian President Abdel F. El Sisi talking about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam said, “I tell our Ethiopian brothers: we should not reach the level that you mess with a water drop in Egypt, because all options are open.”
Is there any doubt what El Sisi meant by “all options are open”? Could there be any doubt what the GODDESS OF WAR Samantha Power means when she says, “all options are open”?
El Sisi plans a water war over the Nile. Power plans a “humanitarian intervention” war over Tigray. Sun Tzu taught, “If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” I say, “It is not the size of the dog in the fight that determines the outcome but size of the fight in the underdog.”
Ethiopia today is the underdog standing up against the AXIS OF BIG DOGS (and their lap dogs Egypt and Sudan) consisting of the Rice-Biden administration, the European Union and NATO as they declare and prosecute economic, political, diplomatic wars and spread rumors of war on Ethiopia!
My near perfect prediction (prophesy) on the Rice-Biden administration’s policy in Ethiopia
I have been writing and predicting with a high degree of accuracy what the Rice-Biden administration (coordinating with European Union) will do four days after the inauguration of Joe Biden. See my commentaries on the “Five Pillars of U.S. Policy in Ethiopia” at almariam.com beginning with my commentary, “Speaking Truth to President Joe Biden: Undeclare the Diplomatic War Your Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Declared on Ethiopia! (Part I)”
On May 10, 2021, I predicted “Susan Rice’s “May Surprise” Dirty Trick: Impose Sanctions on Ethiopia!” The sanctions, I argued, would be imposed with the calculation of undermining and discrediting the June 5, 2021 Ethiopian parliamentary elections, later moved up to June 21.
On May 23, 2021, the U.S. State Department announced visa sanctions on Ethiopia. On May 17, 2021, I predicted a SECOND Susan Rice May Surprise in the form of a U.S. Declaration that there is genocide in Tigray. On May 17, 2021, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, at the direction of Susan Rice, scheduled a “Closed” session (secret meeting) on “Challenges and Opportunities for the United States in the Horn of Africa”. On
May 27, 2021, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and got assurances from the State Department a genocide declaration in Tigray will be issued soon.
The so-called genocide report has been prepared and I expect it will be released shortly after Samantha Power returns from her Sudan and Ethiopia visit.
The Rice-Biden administration has completed setting the stage for a full-scale, drag down, no holds barred “humanitarian intervention” economic, political and air war on Ethiopia Genocide declaration to justify an air war on Ethiopia. The Rice-Biden administration in the coming weeks will declare genocide in Ethiopia.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and the House Foreign Relations Committee (HFRC) have been building a genocide narrative for some time now.
On May 26, 2021, in a joint op-ed, SFRC chair Senator Bob Mendez and HFRC chair Representative Gregory Meeks all but declared genocide in Tigray region of Ethiopia accusing the Ethiopian Government of “coordinated campaign of destruction that could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
Nearly seven months into the conflict, the human cost continues to grow. Thousands of civilians have been injured or killed and there are increasing reports of extra-judicial killings, massacres, sexual and gender-based violence, forced displacement, and other human rights violations.
Children are falling prey to exploitation and detention. Health centers, schools, universities, and refugee camps have been looted or destroyed. Food systems – historically fragile in this corner of Africa – have been so badly disrupted that famine looms large.
This carnage can no longer be explained away as an inadvertent byproduct of war. What we are seeing appears to be systematic and intentional, part and parcel of a coordinated campaign of destruction that could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
It is important to keep things in historical perspective considering how Samantha Power orchestrated the war on Syria and Libya!
In the case of Syria, she was so eager to order US strikes that she opposed asking Congress to authorize them, fearing permission would be refused. In the case of Libya, where intervention unquestionably deepened a humanitarian catastrophe, Power praised the United States for ‘[helping] orchestrate the fastest and broadest international response to an impending human rights crisis in history.’
As for the barbarous results of this response, she essentially pleads ignorance: “Whatever our sincerity, we could hardly expect to have a crystal ball when it came to accurately predicting outcomes in places where the culture was not our own.” The similarity to non-apologies from Iraq War defenders is striking, to say the least.
But Susan Rice and Samantha Power have done their homework with Congress with respect to Ethiopia. They expect no opposition, and indeed massive support, from Congress by conducting an air war on Ethiopia.
On May 19, 2021, the U.S. senate passed S. Res. 97 setting up the stage for a forthcoming genocide declaration.
H Res 445, sponsored by two African American members of Congress, Representatives Gregory Meeks and Karen Bass (“Et tu Brutus”, wrote Shakespeare in Julius Caesar), is pending in the House and will be the precursor to a declaration of genocide in Tigray.
In my March 18, 2021 commentary entitled, “The Americans are Coming! The Americans are Coming!” Imposing Susan Rice’s Imperial Pax Americana on Ethiopia and Eritrea”, I predicted the Rice-Biden administration will use one or more of the following strategies to wage war on Ethiopia:
Order airstrikes on Ethiopia and Eritrea from an aircraft carrier in the Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain. Give a nod and a wink to the Egyptians to carry out proxy airstrikes. Coordinate with Egypt and Sudan to carry out a land invasion on Ethiopia and Eritrea. Use the Trojan Horse of humanitarian aid organizations to supply weapons to TPLF terrorists in Tigray. Organize a new TPLF terrorist army by recruiting young Tigreans “refugees” in Sudan.
The foregoing options are now becoming self-evident. Power has already clearly indicated what the U.S. and European Union want to do.
Every option is on the table because our estimates are 900,000 people in Tigray are at the risk of famine. That is not something we see lightly or our international partners see lightly. The “F” word (famine) is a big deal. We need them to grant both road accesses where we can get in way more food and airdrop…
(See video and transcript above)
Editor’s Note: The views entertained in this article do not necessarily reflect the stance of The Ethiopian Herald
The Ethiopian Herald August 6/2021
