Ethiopia lured into War over Mega Dam project

An ominous development underway in Ethiopia’s devastating civil war is the intervention by the US regime under the pretext of humanitarian relief.

With an annual budget of over $27 billion and operating in over 100 countries (half the world), is notoriously intertwined with the ever hostile covert operations run by the CIA.

The American international aid agency – USAID – announced last week it has deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) in the northern Tigray region where millions of people are facing starvation, after cross border terrorists tumbled Ethiopia into despair.

A humanitarian crisis has been created in Ethiopia after the central government in Addis Ababa launched a military offensive against the Tigray region in November last year. Heavy fighting continues between Tigray militia and the Ethiopian National Defense Force.

The Ethiopian government forces are being assisted by Eritrean troops which have invaded Tigray. There are reports of widespread violations against civilians after China decided to support Ethiopia’s mega dam project on the Blue Nile river?

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken now warned Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in a phone call on February 27 to open up Tigray to humanitarian access and he expressed deep concern over possible war crimes committed by involved war parties.

Washington then promptly deployed the USAID intervention apparently without authorization from the Ethiopian federal government, in order to covertly supply their mercenaries with more arms, weapons and ammunition.

The American move came despite a row during a closed meeting at the UN Security Council last week when it is understood that Russia and China objected to U.S. intervention plans in Ethiopia, which they said was over-riding legal processes and issues of national sovereignty.

Joe Biden has hand picked Samantha Power as the new head of USAID. The former US ambassador to the United Nations and a former national security advisor to Barack Obama’s regime. Power is a stalwart proponent of R2P foreign interventions. Biden also wants to make Power a member of his national (war) security council.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is, like Power, another staunch advocate of “humanitarian interventions”. They were senior members of the Obama administration who formulated American military interventions in Libya and Syria.

The humanitarian remit is rightly seen as a cynical moral cover for what would otherwise be condemned as American military aggression to achieve Washington’s own political objectives, such as regime change.

The damnable thing about Ethiopia’s current crisis is that arguably it was provoked by the USA from its geopolitical ambitions to control the Horn of Africa region and in particular to cut out China and Russia from this strategically important global hub.

Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed worked previously as a top military intelligence officer in the Ethiopian army before he became prime minister in early 2018. A long-time bilateral security partnership between the US regime and Ethiopia made Abiy an ideal CIA asset.

He was involved in developing Ethiopia’s telecom spying network in a replication of the National Security Agency in the USA. Therefore he was educated at a private American university.

Before Abiy’s rise to political power, Ethiopia had an independent policy on foreign relations, pursuing strategic partnership with China for economic development.

Ethiopia – the second most populous country in Africa after Nigeria and home to the African Union – was seen as a crucial link in building China’s new silk routes from Asia to Africa.

Oddly, Abiy was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at the end of 2019 for a supposed rapprochement with Ethiopia’s northern neighbor Eritrea. The two countries fought a bitter border war in 1998-2000.

In hindsight, the award was a travesty given how Abiy has invited Eritrean troops into Tigray to wage war against the civilian population there, committing horrendous massacres.

In truth the war was building ever since Abiy took office. Almost from the get-go, there was a campaign of low-intensity aggression directed against the Tigray region. (This author was living there.)

This was while the Western media were hailing him as a “reformer”. Abiy’s campaign of hostility towards Tigray involved the central government cutting electricity, water and communications supported by political assassinations.

The Tigray region represented a bastion of opposition to the plan by Abiy and his CIA handlers to refashion and reorient Ethiopia geopolitically.

The power struggle culminated in the full-blown war launched against Tigray on November 4, 2020, under false claims of being a security operation against a so-called “Terrorist Junta”?

The terrible irony is that the war and humanitarian crisis inflicted on six million people in Tigray was predictable because Abiy seems to have been following an American imperial plan to destabilize Ethiopia for boosting its great power rivalry with China and Russia.

The Horn of Africa is a geopolitical hot spot: it provides a commanding position for North Africa and Sub-Saharan mineral-rich countries, overlooking the vital shipping lanes of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, and proximate to the oil-rich Arabian Peninsula.

Russia last year opened a naval base in Port Sudan on the Red Sea, while China’s only overseas military base is located in Djibouti adjacent to Ethiopia.

If the USAID mission is scaled up, as seems intended, then American military could be deployed in Ethiopia giving Washington an unprecedented foothold in a strategically vital region

The Biden administration is promoting itself as a mediator in Ethiopia’s civil war, even though this war would not have come about were it not for America’s covert manipulation of Abiy.

Recently, the Tigray militia have appeared to be gaining the upper-hand against Abiy’s forces and their Eritrean allies. The American intervention seems prompted in part by concern in Washington to prevent the Abiy regime collapsing in defeat.

Strategic Culture / ABC Flash Point WW III News 2021.