There is a fear among all Ethiopians and many pundits outside Ethiopia that the country is in danger of disintegrating from within, let alone from outside forces. Read my article Part I of this series and published in Eurasia Review on September 25th, 2024, for more details.

No one threatens Ethiopia more than its own government which has embarked over the past several years on a serious of strategic blunders, all in the name of tribal revenge – the Oromo who claim to have been abused over the past two hundred years by the real Habesha or Abyssinia, the Amhara and the Tigray.

“It is our turn now” seems to be the motto of the current Federal Government of Ethiopia as led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and pushed by the Chief of the Ethiopian Defense Force (ENDF), Birhanu Jula, who continually threatens almost every nationality in the country, and perhaps by other Oromummaa nationalists.

The ENDF Chief was quoted at the start of the Tigray War that they would wrap it up in three days, yet he is still at war not only with the Tigray, which seems to have reconstituted themselves, but also with almost every other nationality in the country and most of all the founders of the current Ethiopia in the nineteenth century, the Amhara State. The recent threats against the Somali people was actually unnecessary and uncalled for and this may threaten the Ethiopian State or perhaps this is what the ENDF Chief is looking for.

Birhanu Jula forgets he speaks Amharic to communicate with the rest of Ethiopia and not his Oromo language and so does his Prime Minister, the man most responsible for the current futile state of the country. Birhanu Jula has been at war with his own people ever since he was appointed as the country’s military chief on November 4th, 2020. The war against the Tigray State which currently is in a lull, but which could restart at any time, killed hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians and the Amhara war which earnestly started last year is killing many more, let alone the maimed and wounded and those who suffer from the adverse side effects of the war such as hunger and diseases.

It would appear that the political and economic volcanoes declenched by the leaders of the country seem to have no end. They are even threatening the neighbors as evidenced by the relations with Somalia, which is at its lowest ebb for a long, long time. Eritrea and Djibouti are both on guard as they apparently know that........

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