Russom H

[Russom H @HabRuso]

@saraalsaeed91 Propagandist of Pokémon Party of Ethiopia 🤣🤣🤣 Abiy is losing

[Ambassador Estifanos @AmbassadorEstif]

LESSON 1 WHICH IS SOLELY ADDRESSED to GETACHEW REDA IN #Ethiopia: エリトリア History of #Eritrea is made of facts and not manufactured tell-tell genesis or stories by bootlickers. Dive deep here: https://t.co/TXmIaITOie

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

The Potemkin Party is apparently seething under extreme desperation. It must indeed be at its lowest point; at the end of its tether so to speak!

How else can one explain the monotonous, 35-minute long diatribe of lies and hollow allegations against Eritrea peddled by mercurial Getachew Reda (nominally, Adivsor to the Prime Minister) that was broadcast yesterday by the Ethiopian Broadcast Corporation (EBC) and other domestic media outlets.

If the unhinged Getachew Reda is taken as a credible political analyst and a reference point, then the numerous insolent and outrageous remarks that he had made on various Tigrayan TV outlets, as well as his X Account, about the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during the war in the Tigray Region must be accorded due credibility too.

Indeed, some of his grotesquely disparaging statements on Abiy Ahmed and the Ethiopian army include:

- "Abiy Ahmed is a political pigmy. Had Ethiopia been a normal country, he would have long been confined to a mental institution or spiritual cites of healing for the deranged";
- "Abiy Ahmed is delusional enough to believe and openly brag that his mother had told him, when he was seven years old, that she saw him, in her dream, being crowned as a King";
-" Abiy Ahmed is the epitome and example of little men who come to power by some accident of history and who subsequently create huge catastrophes";
-"Abiy Ahmed cannot lead a nation without reverting to endless deceptions";
- "He (Abiy Ahmed) has literally no education...but you cannot ask him how he claims that he has a PhD as he does not give you time for reasonable discourse";
- "Abiy Ahmed is the textbook example of national treason. As such, he has no moral high ground to speak about sovereignty";
- "Abiy Ahmed is a toxic weed that has grown in this nation";
- " (General) Birhanu Jula and others are not leading a capable army. They have lost the little military knowledge they had and are sheepishly taking orders from this mad leader. This anti-people army, which is blindly implementing Abiy Ahmed's war agenda, is entailing massive deaths among the civilian population and the youth"...etc...

The rudderless Getachew Reda is indeed prone to making whimsical and contradictory statements on almost any issue depending on his unstable moods and ever-shifting political affiliations. Recently, as he struck an opportunistic alliance with the Federal Government and its PM on whom he was heaping endless insults, he has began to shamelessly disavow the political beliefs he had held for decades.

In a recent interview, he quipped (referring to his old comrades): "There are many people who maintain that Tigray should be an independent nation. I also mull about that concept whenever I am tipsy!"

His close associates confide that Getachew is tipsy or drunk from the late afternoon to the wee morning hours almost on a daily basis... This has in fact earned him the moniker :"Vodakchew".

On a more sober note, how can one give serious weight to the excesses and irresponsible utterances of this political vagabond.

In the event, there is no point in responding to all the vitriol that he has floated against Eritrea in his interview yesterday.

We will thus focus on one fallacy: his preposterous assertion that "Eritrea was created, by conspiratorial forces, as an independent State in order to weaken and destroy Ethiopia".

This spurious and revisionist claim is, of course, utterly false and deliberately peddled to rationalize and advance the Potemkin Party's wicked domestic agenda of agitation and mobilization for war.

History otherwise attests to these indelible facts:

1. Eritrea was denied its inalienable right of decolonization in the late 1940s and "federated" with Ethiopia only because the US and other powers gave precedence to their perceived geopolitical interests.
2. The international community kept mum, again for similar political calculus, when the Ethiopian government unilaterally abrogated the "Federal Act" and annexed Eritrea in November 1962.
3. The Eritrean people and nation had to shoulder the heavy burden of national liberation for thirty long years and pay huge and unparalleled sacrifices. Throughout this period, virtually the whole world showed unconscionable apathy by failing to recognize and extend moral and material support to Eritrea's legitimate war of national liberation. In the meantime, Ethiopia which was ruled by the Emperor and the military junta that toppled him continued to receive massive military, economic and political support from diverse countries - the US, USSR, European Countries, Israel, several Arab and Asian countries, Cuba etc..
4. The same pattern continued at various critical junctures in Eritrea's post independence period. The failure to take meaningful action against the Ethiopian regime when it reneged on its treaty obligations - essentially worked out under the facilitation of the the US, the EU, the UN and the OAU - and rejected the EEBC Arbitral Award to occupy sovereign Eritrean territories for almost two decades is a glaring illustration of the tendency of major powers, and the international community at large, to sacrifice legality and justice on the altar of narrow interests.
5. In all these decades, including in these critical times when the current regime is stoking the flames of war through its reckless agenda of "sovereign access to the sea", the "intensive care" accorded to Ethiopia has not diminished in any way. The IMF's 3 billion financial bailout that is underway; the EU's massive assistance, including recent budgetary assistance; individual bilateral support to Ethiopia from European, Asian, Middle Eastern countries...etc. corroborate this fact.
6. Indeed, by some accounts, Ethiopia has been the beneficiary of an aggregate 114 billion US dollars in the past three decades from multilateral and bilateral assistance. This pattern of huge and burgeoning assistance does not reek of, and cannot be misconstrued, by any stretch of imagination, as "some entrenched conspiracy to weaken and destroy Ethiopia".

In brief, and as noted earlier, Getachew Reda's "analysis" can hardly be taken seriously on any subject. For the Potemkin Party to stoop too low to use his deranged analysis for "popular mobilization" only accentuates its utter desperation.

[Hadnet Keleta @hadnetkeleta]

After liberation, #Eritrea faced the challenge of transitioning from war to peace. Thousands of fighters had to be reintegrated into civilian life, while the country itself needed to be built from the ground up. National service became a way to organize this transition—to build human capacity while maintaining readiness. ይርዳእኩም!

https://t.co/upi1qljjA2

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Eritrea's National Service seems to be on the spotlight again by certain quarters.

The "new interest" does not stem from some "benevolent concern" for Eritrea. On the contrary, it is floated, purely and simply, in order to weaponize it as a "convenient" whiplash or cudgel for their unwarranted and malicious policies of perennial witch-hunting and harassment.

Indeed, the logic is simple and straight forward.

Countries and international institutions that were complicit in, or that kept mum, at critical junctures of Eritrea's modern history; when its decolonization rights were compromised to mollify the overriding geopolitical interests of major powers; when they left it to its own devices during the three decades of its long and arduous liberation struggle; who relapsed to their traditional position of hostility or apathy even after independence when successive Ethiopian regimes waged illicit wars, and are still contemplating reckless agendas, of territorial irredentism.. etc. have no legal or moral authority to comment on Eritrea's defense architecture.

Truth is international partnership is, and must be, a two-way street. Those who have traditionally abandoned Eritrea during its cyclical ordeals cannot pose as "good-faith" partners to offer unsolicited "advice" on its defense architecture.

The facts are otherwise unambivalent and crystal clear:

1. First off, demobilization is not a new or novel concept to Eritrea. The GOE embarked, on its own volition, on a demobilization programme in 1992, immediately after independence, to reduce the size of the 100,000-strong army of freedom fighters by 65%. The military doctrine at the time was to maintain a small professional army of 35,000 that would be supplemented by a reserve army (National Service) for reasons of contingency in the event of some grave external threat to the nation.
2. In this perspective, National Service was introduced in the context of this military doctrine. It was and remains limited to 18 months by law. And this was the operational modality until the war of aggression that was unleashed by Ethiopia in 1998 under the false pretext of a border dispute.
3. The GOE again embarked on a much more expansive Demobilization Programme in 2001 pursuant to the signing of the Algiers Agreement. The second Demobilization Programme had various training and reinsertion components as it was also funded by Eritrea's international partners including the World Bank, the European Union and bilateral funds. More than 105,000 National Service members were demobilized in this programme that continued until 2007. But it was ultimately shelved as the Ethiopian regime continued to renege on its treaty obligations; occupy, with impunity, sovereign Eritrean territories including Badme; and further pursued a hostile policy of perpetual confrontation.
4. The mindset of the current Ethiopian regime remains, in many respects, a continuation and aggravation of the misguided and deplorable policies of aggression of its predecessors.
4. But even during these trying and difficult times, the GOE has, and continues to take, various measures to mitigate the shared burden of the National Service. The measures adopted range from introduction of new and much higher Civil Service Salary Scale to deployment of the overwhelming majority of NS members to the public sector.
5. In the event, the new smear campaign on the National Service peddled by certain quarters, and its timing, only amplify a malicious ulterior agenda that has nothing to do with the welfare of the Eritrean people and/or the pursuit of regional peace and security.

[Embassy of Eritrea to Ethiopia PM to AU & ECA @ERIEMBAET]

Eritrea’s sovereignty is neither negotiable nor penetrable, and that lasting security can only be achieved when boundaries are respected and international law is upheld without exception.
https://t.co/j2DCxMatWk

[Sharron Yemane @Sharronyemane]

Ethiopia is not being ‘dragged into war’ | Opinions | Al Jazeera
Good read
#ERITREA 🇪🇷 https://t.co/6ZzzuOnjzg

[Sharron Yemane @Sharronyemane]

Who is my brother? Who is my sister?

Any Eritrean patriot is my brother. Any Eritrean patriot is my sister. They do not have to worship the same God. They do not have to speak the same language. They do not have to be born of the same region. They do not need to look like me or sound like me. All they have to do is value the entire Eritrean national fabric above all else. Above religion, region, ideology, and any other consideration. Any other conception of your national identity is counterproductive and a big reason why we are where we are today.
Eritrea is a country of nine ethnic groups living in harmony. In Eritrea, “Unity in Diversity” is a basic principle of nation-building and national development efforts. Despite our differences and through our historical experiences Eritrea’s diverse groups voluntarily agreed to unite as one nation. Eritrea has achieved national unity and national identity. However, this cannot be taken for granted. It needs continuous attention and efforts to strengthen and improve its substance. In order to give sustenance to Eritrea’s national unity and identity, we must continue to combat divisive tendencies that may emerge in various forms.
ንፋቀር ንሳነ ንከባበር ♥️ 🇪🇷
#Afar🇪🇷 #Bilen 🇪🇷 #Hidarb 🇪🇷#Kunama 🇪🇷 #Nara 🇪🇷#Rashaida 🇪🇷 #Saho 🇪🇷 #Tigre 🇪🇷 #Tigrina 🇪🇷
#ERITREA

[Biniam Berhe 🇪🇷 @biniamb]

"Eritrea stands firm in its resolve, anchored in legal permanence and historical facts. Those who look to externalise their domestic ruin through regional destabilisation will find that Eritrea’s sovereignty is neither negotiable nor penetrable,"

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

AlJazeera - Ethiopia is not being ‘dragged into war';
by Mr. Ali Ibrahim Ahmed, #Eritrea's Ambassador to Qatar

*"... The recent opinion article by senior Ethiopian officials Redwan Hussein and Getachew Reda, published on Al Jazeera English’s website, attempts to portray Ethiopia as an innocent victim being reluctantly 'dragged' into conflict by external actors. In doing so, the piece seeks to absolve the ruling Prosperity Party of responsibility for Ethiopia’s mounting domestic crises".

*"...More dangerously, this narrative serves as a diplomatic smoke screen designed to normalize the unprovoked hostility, state-sponsored inflammatory rhetoric and aggressive military mobilizations that the Ethiopian government has directed towards Eritrea since late 2023".

*"...This coordinated campaign seeks to normalize the idea that colonial boundaries in the Horn of Africa are negotiable in order to attempt to challenge inviolable principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity that have long underpinned regional stability".

*"...The broader pattern extends beyond Eritrea. Ethiopia’s recent foreign policy conduct has increasingly generated tensions with several neighboring states. The Memorandum of Understanding signed with Somaliland, which sought access to coastal territory without the consent of Somalia’s central government, triggered a major diplomatic crisis and raised serious questions regarding respect for established principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity".

*"...Similarly, Ethiopia has repeatedly pursued interventionist policies in neighboring conflicts in the quest for short-term geopolitical objectives. Whether in Somalia, Sudan or elsewhere, Addis Ababa’s reckless regional agenda of expansionism has contributed significantly to regional mistrust and destabilization".

https://t.co/MwqtJQeYx2 via @AJEnglish

[Russom H @HabRuso]

@BehiwotTilahun 🤣🤣🤣 we aren't your brothers and sisters.

[Russom H @HabRuso]

@Zemedeneh https://t.co/wfOwavWGvC

[Sheabia ሻዕብያ 🇪🇷 @SheabiaForever]

Remember when the US called Ethiopia's 100% election "democratic"? Fast forward, and Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party claims a 90% "win" to avoid the same embarrassment. History repeats itself—another sham election joke. 😂 🇪🇹 #Ethiopia

[Russom H @HabRuso]

@Zemedeneh You will not going to have access to The Red Sea. Stay in your landlocked Shitopia. Lemagn

[Russom H @HabRuso]

@Zemedeneh Pathological lair 🤣🤣

[Russom H @HabRuso]

@Zemedeneh

[Russom H @HabRuso]

@trtafrika Really 🤣🤣🤣 comedy of the year 2026

[Russom H @HabRuso]

@Uriel010212 Good for him. Who cares 😴 🙄

[Russom H @HabRuso]

@AyimenN @TiborPNagyJr https://t.co/tGnIKudPAB

[ⓉⓃ @tesfanews]

ETHIOPIA — Abiy Ahmed's ruling "Potemkin Party" proudly announced it won 90% of the seats in an election where much of the country never even showed up. #Tigray was out, most of #Amhara was out, and large parts of #Oromia were out, but apparently that still counts as a "national mandate."

At this point, many Ethiopians would find a unicorn grazing in 'Meskel Square' more believable than the claim that this was a "free and fair" election.

The million dollar question is: with this new term, will he rescue #Ethiopia from the violence, economic hardship, and uncertainty that have defined his first eight years, or will he drive the country even deeper into crisis?

[Russom H @HabRuso]

@AyimenN @TiborPNagyJr 2026 will be recognized as the best of best faked election in Ethiopian history 👇👇👇😂😂

[Russom H @HabRuso]

@AyimenN @TiborPNagyJr 🤣 don't scare #Tsimdo is a philosophy people to people engagement in the region for the seek of peace and security. Your precious 7th grade Abiy is good at killing his own people in Amhara,Tigray, Oromia,...