For over two weeks, the U.S. has been telling the world, “The sky is falling! The sky is falling on Ethiopia!”
Quite literally, the U.S. has been preaching doom and gloom to its citizens visiting, working or living in Ethiopia, “EMERGENCY! Evacuate Ethiopia! If you need money for plane fare, call the U.S. Embassy.”
The U.S. has been emailing U.S. citizens in Ethiopia at least a dozen time over the past few days, “Get out of Ethiopia, NOW!”
The U.S. has even announced the formation of an Ethiopia evacuation taskforce.
The U.S. has gone into overdrive spreading panic, fear and alarm over the purely imaginary takeover of the capital by the terrorist group Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
Using every means available, the U.S. has been telling Ethiopians, “Abandon all hope! Run for your lives! The TPLF is coming! The TPLF is coming!”
The U.S. Embassy in Addis has tried to create mass hysteria and exodus of all expatriates, diplomats and staff of international organizations out of Ethiopia by issuing frantic and ridiculous travel advisories depicting Ethiopia’s capital as the New Dodge City.
The U.S. even issued the highest “Level 4 Travel Advisory”: “Do not travel to Ethiopia due to armed conflict, civil unrest, communications disruptions, crime, and the potential for terrorism and kidnapping in border areas.”
The crescendo of responses by Ethiopians on social media and in Ethiopia to the frantic evacuation call by the U.S. government has been unambiguous:
“Leave us alone. Hands off Ethiopia! Pack up and leave. Godspeed! Don’t let the door hit you in the back. Hit the road Uncle Sam and don’t you come back no more. Just beat it, don’t you ever come around here. Yankee, go home.”
Reuters reported, “Tens of thousands of Ethiopians rallied in Addis Ababa on Sunday in support of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government.”
The fact of the matter is that nobody is leaving Ethiopia.
There are no overbooked flights. There are no lines at the airport. Just ordinary, ho hum days at the hub of the of the New Spirit of Africa, a/k/a Ethiopian Airlines, at Bole International Airport. As of November 6, 2021, US Embassy says, “Seats on commercial flights are available.”
Addis Ababa is not Kabul, Afghanistan when people trying to get out were dropping like flies from US military planes.It is not even clear U.S. personnel are leaving. If they were, the U.S. government would have made a global spectacle out of it.
Watching comic drama… “How the mighty have fallen!”
The U.S. government has tried every trick in the book to create the impression the Ethiopian government is about to fall, and the terrorist Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is about to take over.
The tactics are too many to count:Create a media narrative the government of PM Abiy is defeated, on its last legs and doomed to collapse;Show the U.S. has an alternative government ready to take over upon collapse of PM Abiy’s government;
Get Western media press-titutes to kick up a lot of fake news and disinformation dust to create confusion in Ethiopia and globally;Trigger a mass exodus of foreigners out of Ethiopia by creating fear, alarm and anxiety; Hoodwink the UN Security Council into taking rash action and deploy peacekeepers
Use AGOA as economic leverage; Coordinate with other governments to pressure Ethiopia;Intimidate the Ethiopian government by threats of sanctions, isolation, etc.
Pressure countries like Turkey not to sell weapons to Ethiopia;Bribe top Ethiopian officials to defect to show the government is being abandoned;Deny visa to Ethiopians andBlock World Bank loans. The latest in this pathetic drama is a joint statement issued by the U.S. and ONLY seven countries in the world that support its position on Ethiopia.There are 195 countries in world. The U.S. was able to pressure only seven to join it in its conspiracy against Ethiopia.
On November 6, 2021, the U.S. State Department issued a Joint Statement endorsed by “Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States” demanding “all parties to immediately cease hostilities” and “enter into negotiations without preconditions on a durable ceasefire.”
Seriously?
Iceland, population 344,226, is that even a country? Sounds like an ice cream factory. Luxembourg, population 625,978? Sounds like a fashion line for wrist watches. Where the hell is New Zealand, population 4,874,979?There are 27 million sheep in New Zealand.The way they follow the U.S., it is more accurate to say there are 4,874,979 sheep!But no African countries signed up. No Asian countries. No Latin American countries. No Middle Eastern countries.
Only lily-white countries!
Jeffrey Feltman, US special envoy for the Horn of Africa, has been tooting his horn commanding Ethiopia to negotiate with the TPLF or else. He visited Ethiopia on November 4-5 singing his same old song: “Ethiopia must negotiate with the TPLF. There is no military solution. Unfettered humanitarian access.” Feltman is to a peacemaker in the horn as a hyena is to a gathering of antelopes.
In 2012, Feltman serving as a high U.N. 0ffcial said: “US interference is quite acceptable, but Iranian interference is utterly unacceptable. This might be adequate behavior for the diplomat of a country, but it is hardly the temperament for a senior UN official. It raises doubts about Feltman’s ability to be even-handed in his deliberations as a steward of the world’s political dilemmas.”
With the crocodilian sincerity, Jeffrey Feltman, the US special envoy for the Horn of Africa said, “We oppose any TPLF move to Addis or any TPLF move to besiege Addis.” He also said the U.S. can effectively order the TPLF not to enter the capital. The U.S. has tried to pressure countries in the world to follow in its footsteps. It even pressured Israel to “issue a rare warning” directing its personnel to evacuate Ethiopia.
In Africa, the U.S. prepared a letter for Uhuru “Pandora Papers Corruption” Kenyatta to send to PM Abiy pleading for negotiations with the TPLF.
On October 4, 2021, Kenyatta congratulating PM Abiy Ahmed on his inauguration said, “I stand here to offer you our support as you continue with your endeavors to rebuild Ethiopia…”
In his letter to PM Abiy dated November 3, 2021, Kenyatta literally issued a command PM Abiy, “The fighting must stop.” He delivers the letter written for him to PM Abiy as the TPLF attacks to dismantle Ethiopia.
The trial and tribulations of being an African beggar or is it a prostitute turning $2 tricks?
The U.S. has convened the U.N. Security Council 10 times to sanction Ethiopia. They have asked for another one in the coming week to ask for peacekeeper to be deployed in Ethiopia. The U.S. has been orchestrating the echo chamber of frogs, or as I prefer to call them “Western press-titutes” (as the world’s second oldest profession), including CNN, Bloomberg, BBC, The Economist, The New York Times, USA Today, AP and the rest to wage a relentless campaign of fear and smear on Ethiopia.
CNN wrote, “Tigrayan rebels and troops allied against Ethiopia’s central government are rapidly advancing on Addis Ababa.”
BBC wrote, “Tigray’s rebel forces currently have the upper hand in the war.” More like their hands are cutoff and only their lying tongues wags.
The Economist wrote, “It would be foolish to discount the possibility of fighting on the streets of Addis Ababa”.
In total desperation, the U.S. last week organized and debuted the equivalent of the 1980s Nicaraguan Contras.
The “Ethiopian contras”, composed of Uber drivers and parking lot attendants declared, “We must organize ourselves and totally dismantle this (Ethiopian) government either by force or by negotiation…”
Imagine if Al Qaeda, Al Shabab, ISIS, Boko Haram and the rest came together in Addis Ababa and declared the are creating a united front to “dismantle” the U.S. government!
If indeed the TPLF has laid siege around the capital and is ready to take over, why should the U.S. be concerned? After all, the U.S. put them up to it!
The U.S. propaganda war on the hearts and minds of Ethiopians demonstrates its ill intent to establish its puppet administration in Ethiopia on the expense of the sovereignty of the nation. As a glance at history indicates that Ethiopians would never comprise their sovereignty, the US ought to stop its comic drama against the rights of the people of Ethiopia.
Editor’s Note: The views entertained in this article do not necessarily reflect the stance of The Ethiopian Herald
BY ALMARIAM
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD NOVEMBER 9/2021
