As I noted earlier this is mostly an information war. Seems it started way longer than we think. Listen to this interview and be the judge.
Tplf propaganda is top notch. They have been in power for 30 years so they have networks all the world. Tplf claims it was a preemptive strike against abiy and Eritrea plans to invade their region.
The problem with Abiy supporters is that they were late in getting on the information war. Abiy has no experience or deep connections. The govt info war is being left to diaspora activists and other Ethiopians. It is too uncoordinated to win against the tpfl machinery.
This discussion was interesting but is not something new to me. I knew tpfl was very good in controlling information and in disinformation.
Ethiopians are in a terrible predicament. Their nation has been under almost century of dictatorship. There is very limited freedom of speech in that country. This war has just opened the ethnic fissure wide open. It will hard to mend these fissures.
Blaming western media is convenient but the corporate media is in the pockets of interests groups and whatever the interest of Washington or Buckingham is where they will be.
A journalist given 200 words to explain such a complex country will only do a very superficial narrative in hope it will catch the readers attention.
