The UAE is attempting to buy the world, and their price is complicity.
As @ThomasVLinge notes, their capital has turned the RSF into the most heavily funded insurgency in modern history. Their reach stretches everywhere. In the UK, they bought the Premier League to launder their image through sport and blackmailed the government the moment they were exposed. Across the digital sphere, researchers like @marcowenjones have repeatedly tracked their vast networks of bots and disinformation platforms manufacturing propaganda and silencing dissent.
Geopolitically, their checkbook secures loyalty across Chad, Kenya, Ethiopia, East Libya, and South Sudan. Most unforgivably, they buy Sudanese leaders who willingly turn a blind eye to the slaughter and rape of their own citizens. They even bought an already billionaire sitting in the Oval Office.
In an ecosystem this thoroughly corrupted, those who reject the cash and expose the machinery command profound respect. When an independent researcher like Rich Tedd @AfriMEOSINT can afford to say no, it lays bare the moral bankruptcy of everyone who said yes.
@Freedom71851 it’s a fantasy built on arrogance, exaggeration, and wishful thinking. If you have facts, put them on the table. If not, stop pretending your imagination is evidence.
You’re not exposing anyone. You’re exposing how desperate your narrative is. Loud words, zero substance.2/2
@Freedom71851 I’m not responding because you’re worth the attention. I’m responding because your garbage deserves to be challenged before someone actually believes it.
You keep dressing up propaganda as analysis and calling it “fear and panic.” That’s not an argument1/2
I feel Ethiopia should negotiate in good faith.
Egyptians are good negatiotors, they are willing to reach a deal.
They have displayed that in Camp David.
If they are ready to sign deal with Israel, I don't know why Ethiopia's issue is different.
We all agree that the British colonisers didn't do well by excluding Ethiopia, but the solution is not to take unilateral decisions to cut off supply on Egypt abruptly, it is not reasonable.
I hope cooler heads prevail.
#Ethiopia says it wants diversified access to #RedSea and Somalia has offered them that so why hasnt #AbiyAhmed done a deal with #Somalia ? Thats strange.
@EDGMTranquility Respect Eritrea’s sovereignty, negotiate in good faith, and there is no problem. But sovereignty is not something you get to demand or seize because you happen to need a port.6/6
@hawelti
@EDGMTranquility But if your argument is, “We want access, and if you refuse, we will take it by force,” then be honest enough to call it what it is: a threat, not diplomacy.
So stop dressing up territorial entitlement as innocent “sea access.” Nobody is fooled by the change in vocabulary.5/6