As an Ethiopian, a sea outlet is a massive issue for us, but we're tired of wars, and most importantly Eritreans are our siblings we don't want to fight Literally any foreigner would struggle to differentiate between an Ethiopian and Eritrean cultures, because we're basically the same nation, different nationalities And more than my fear for ourselves, I fear for Eritreans because their leader would conscript all the population, the Eritrean dictator will force his 5 million people to throw themselves into war, which would lead to the greatest humanitarian catastrophe and probably the bloodiest in the 21st century (which means that Ethiopia will break its own record)
If Ethiopia invades Somalia it will be a big reason for us Somalis to liberate our Somali region occupied by Ethiopia the Ethiopians lost to us in 1977 until Russia can to their rescue so they know to not fuck with us
@@daviroza4700 we obviously care for our Somali brothers in Ethiopian Somali land and outside, I have a lot of Somali friends here in addis as well, but You Somalis think you someone in east Africa but you are really nothing in comparison, as to our Eritrean brother we love you and what ever the government decides we will support you independence
Absolutely devastating.. As an Eritrean, I am not necessarily against Ethiopia gaining access to Assab, but it must be through diplomatic agreements. Everything else is unthinkable. We are siblings, how can we kill each other? It breaks my heart man.
@@Sam_Guevenne As an Eritrean no such thing as unity with Ethiopians already tried it caused massive destruction on our people. But we could maybe someday see an EU type of BLOC with you and rest of east africans which is based on mutual respect of each other’s identity,sovereignty.
We Ethiopians seek development and modernity not wars waged by the few. I can't stress enough how much this country's political stance and history has been misrepresented enough. As an Ethiopian, I truly appreciate your effort to research and present the history, demographics and background of Ethiopia for proper context, Thank You RLL.
@@JaKingScomez Ethiopia can survive without a sea outlet, Ethiopia will prosper more with it, but we'll still grow without it, just if we have a good leadership
As an Ethiopian more wars will only set us back, no need to turn our Eritrean siblings into enemies for an access to a port despite how much we need it, specially when its possible to get it done with an agreement in which both countries could benefit.
You will not, you will only make yourselves suffer. There is nothing like Eritrean patriotism. You are not our mother or anything. We remember you as a colonizer who oppressed us. We have much better memories about Italy, as they built and modernized Eritrea. Ethiopia did none of these things. Only steal and kill people. Learn to create a patriotism that is healthy and doesn't offend other countries. That's when you will start seeing success and blessings from God. But Eritrea will not be part of it. @@th8me103
They tried for an agreement by relinquishing claims to the land that was in dispute under the current president. This extremely generous offer was a goodwill gesture to get port access. Yet their pathetic slavemaster dictator wouldn't do it. The man needs to be disappeared, as in yesterday.
@@th8me103 check your facts. We ERITREAN respect the sovereignty of independent countries otherwise the whole tigray was part of the kingdoms that used to exist in modern-day ERITREA until the kingdom of MEDRE BAHRI. based on this fact can we claim tigray is ours? other thing ERITREA is older than ethiopia when it comes to civilization and based on that you have to say ERITREA is the mother of ethiopia.
As an ex-Navy staff member that worked that Huge Antenna Farm at Asmara's Kagnew Station, it's very depressing to see these problems for a lovely people. If Eritrea provided Ethiopia access to Assab for half or less the cost of the Djibouti ports, it would be great for both countries, but that would require politicians with common sense, which is in short supply everywhere.
The problem is that you have to pay money If it's more You have Options like Right now Kenya and Ereteria and future Somalia But Ethiopia Doesn't wana to pay money abi ahmed clearly said We don't wna pay Money for Port he said Clear we will not be landlocked country that is enough You don't know The point Ethiopia Is lost already Abi ahmed Will Be Leading Ethiopia into destruction And Collapse soon Look Rwanda 🇷🇼 one the best growing country in Africa uganda 🇺🇬 South sudan 🇸🇸 Burundi 🇧🇮 Congo 🇨🇩 all these Four countries Tney Use Mombasa Port Kenya 🇰🇪 with Payment and Respectful and They Are Very Intelligent Countries Becouse instead of Paying Billions every year they established East African Community was signed in Arusha Tanzania on 30 November 1999. But ethiopian is Crzy country without Respect policy to its neighbors
Eritrea has granted free access without fees for Ethiopia for 7 years but Ethiopia refused choosing invasion in 1998 then diverted to Djibouti. Even now Eritrea has mentioned it’s interests for Ethiopia to use of its ports but Ethiopia hasn’t asked for access since what it wants Is Ownership (Annexation)
@@HolaBruv Beginning to sound like the bribes have not been properly applied yet. Something like "I'll grant you a 99 Year lease to the port and I get to live in massive luxury for the rest of my life." Standard politics, unfortunately.
As an Armenian this kinda breaks my heart, although I can understand the situation. I just wish that our brothers and sisters in Ethiopia and Eritrea are able, maybe with help of international help to solve this problem via diplomacy instead of war. Believe me when I say that, if Ethiopia takes part of Eritrea by force this will only harden their hearts and end in generational trauma and hatred.
Dave as a Somali originally from Ogaden in Ethiopia, my heart has always been attached to Armenia and i have been supporting them in debates and online at least against Azerbaijan in Artsakh. The Somali region of Ogaden in Ethiopia has been given to haille sellasie as a gift just like Stanley gave Artsakh to Azerbaijan and they named it nagorno karabakh. So I say free Ogaden and free Artsakh and Stepanakat.
My dear Armenian , Just 2 yrs. ago we saved Ethiopia from disintegrating . Take it from me , they are no match to us Eritreans . This is a blabber . It will stay as one . when it comes to Eritrean sovereignty there is No Debate non what's so ever .
Problem is my brother! Ethiopia always resorts to violence against Eritrea. Ethiopians was using our port before, in fact for free, but then their ego made them change course and told us to let our camels drink in our ports. Decided to us dijoubti’s ports. We are tired of this nation honestly. If war this time, won’t be nice for Ethiopia considering its situation. It’s collapse is inevitable
Absolutely.This war news catches the media becasue of the immaturity of our prime minister Abiy.Instead of resolving the isssue through the diplomatic means with the Eritrean gov't, he brought the issue to the media.I think he was given an assignment from the west to provoke Eritrea.,a pro Russian power in east Africa.The result will be catastrophic.
This video was better than I expected. I obsessively followed the tigray war while it was going on and wrote 2 research papers for school about it, and talked about it with my Ethiopian and Eritrean friends. You did a surprisingly good job explaining most aspects of the relevant parts of recent and ancient Ethiopian and Eritrean history without getting too many things wrong and oversimplifying much, which for such a short video I am very impressed with.
@lordjjtheradiant1515 info on youtube was extremely sparse. Whenever I did see something here I watched it, but there wasn't much and it was rarely in depth. I mostly got info from news organizations, I relied on Al Jazeera more than I would've preferred since they are fairly biased, but their bias is pro-qatar so it shouldn't be too important for a conflict that doesn't involve qatar, but they covered it the most so I ended up using them a lot. I eventually started looking into Ethiopian news outlets, although it was hard to find that many that were in English, and as a non-Ethippian I had a hard time identifying all of the biases they probably had. It was easy enough to tell if they were pro TPLF or pro Abiy, but I'm sure there was more nuance I simply didn't notice. I did eventually notice that generally speaking, it was split between Tigrayans, Oromo, and anyone who favored decentralization on one side, and Amhara and anyone who favored centralization on the other side. This even applied to foreigners who focused on Ethiopia a lot. I remember reading papers by a Norweigan guy who clearly preferred decentralization, and despite being Norweigan so theoretically having no horse in the race, because he favored decentralization he portrayed Tograyans and Oromos positively and demonized Amhara.
@Karlach_ I know firsthand from trying to do presentations for papers that it's hard to make this topic short. I always had to cut out so much of what I found important, if I wanted to go into detail talking about even just the relevant history of Ethiopia and Eritrea leading up to the war I would probably take an hour or 2
To our Ethiopian brothers and sisters, I can appreciate that our governments don't necessarily represent our people. We have the same religion, culture and similar language. I wish you the best and hope our countries the best in the future. 🇪🇷❤🇪🇹
@@NoRockinMansLandYes. I am refering to the Tigray and Amhara. However, Eritrea is also very diverse. We are 50 chrisitan Orthodox tewahedo and 50 muslim
I have many friends who are Eritrean and some who are Ethiopian (I work in a weird industry haha). You're all wonderful people and here in Canada the violence of the past quickly fades fortunately. I wish you the best in whatever may come.
As an Ethiopian, I feel shame as to why we still can’t stop the bloody war as long as there is a chance to negotiate around the table peacefully. After all, we are the same people who still enter marrying as we have the same culture and religion. This isn’t to happen between the same brothers and sisters. This is a curse for the country to have such a bloodbath for nothing except fulfilling the interests of power mongers. I have a great appreciation for those who do the video documentaries in such excellent quality.
Because you Ethiopians refused to wake up from your wet dream and accept the reality, we are ready to put the past behind and work with our neighbours. But you lot miss understand our showing love and took our kindness as a weakness
@legesse what war are you repeating like a parrot? A statement regarding an outlet to sea was made by PM Abiye for discussion, the war drums are being drummed by the white boys who do not like peace and collaboration in Africa. Once again What War?
This is such a great way for an ignorant outsider to learn so much about the situation and the history-not only the video but the feedback and differing points of view of the Commenters. Thank you and good luck 🙏🏼
Ngl, this is like 85% spot on. And I'm questioning myself on the 10% I disagree with / the 5 that just sounds off. For such a messy history that's practically perfect. Wish there was more on the 93-02 years. Pretty much the stage being set for what we see today
Because this channel makes videos for Americans, you can see inaccuracies in almost all of the videos yet they are acceptable in general. Like there is a video made by them about a potential invasion of Syria by Turkey, the channel tends to favour Kurds in that video since Kueds are their only ally in the region. Not the most accurate channel, just an introduction channel for ignorant Americans. @@FireeditsNow-jv8jf
You right what I don’t understand is those stupid TH-cam channels tell half truth history without researching facts, they are irresponsible and ignorant people.
@a and @d : Then see how you can promote other YT channels that are more accurate. The reality is, without oil, outsiders don’t care, and will ignore the wars and deaths in Africa over the conflicts in the ME.
we have connecting flight through Ethiopian airlines i was amaze how beautiful adis ababa the capital of Ethiopia, it changed my view about africa it so developed country,luv from the Philippines
You know, considering Egypt's opposition to the GERD and how RLL explained that it could start a war between Ethiopia and Egypt, combined with Egypt being an ally of the United States, there's a case to be made for Russia to want to help Ethiopia take control of Assab in exchange for being able to use the port.
@@andrewrogers3067 Allies change whenever it's convenient. The bigger issues here is whether Ethiopia needs Russia. Russia is in no shape to provide any help at the moment, Ethiopia probably have the military strength to take the port on their own, and allying with Russia might draw unwanted attention.
Africa's reliance on Russia is going to get you the worst version of colonization you've ever experienced. You think they're different, and you're right, just not different in the way that you want.
Egyptian here, there's absolutely no chance of a war over that dam. Our leaders have done absolutely nothing about it for over a decade, and it has already been fully built and partially filled. Also, we're preoccupied with wars in every single one of our neighboring countries, gaza, sudan, and Libya
I've travelled across the world and have never seen a place quite like Eritrea or people quite like the Eritreans. Gracious, kind, honest, beautiful. One thing they kept mentioning was that I should visit Addis some day, that the Ethiopians are their brothers. Shame on outside forces for playing these two against each other. We need to do everything we can to stop another conflict which will likely be disastrous for both.
But Ethiopians don’t reciprocate as u have witnessed all they want is to annex Eritrea demographically erase them from the map. Have tried before 1952-1991 failed then in 1998-2000 failed and going for a hatrick soon it seems.
@@HolaBruv Yes, one can hardly blame the Eritreans for relying on a strong-arm guy like Afwerki. So do you think it is a waste to time to talk about Ethiopia getting access, by treaty perhaps, to Assab and Massawa? In the long run, I can't see Eritrea making advances without getting economic benefit from the geographic position of its ports, and that seems just about impossible without Ethiopian trade.
@@erikheymann9390 No bro we Eritreans actually for Ethiopia to start using our ports so we can economically benefit infact Eritrea has stated many times it will ask for much cheaper fees or in exchange for other stuff like electricity but the problem is that Ethiopia wants to annex lands not access. What’s even worse until now This nation begs us for our help when it needs us but turn against us once we save it from fragmentation hopefully this time Isayas will finally embrace this unchanging fact about Ethiopia so that Isayas keeps his hand out of Ethiopia this time and watch Them proceed in whatever route they chose too.
real life lore is like that friend that always has bad news for you you're like "so how is it going" dude: hey did you hear, our neighbor all died in a house fire, I can't get their screams out of my head and you're like "jesus christ dude"
Sad to see this happen. I had the pleasure of visiting in 2015/16, spending some time in the Tigré region as well. Unfortunately I don't have the phone numbers anymore of the people I met there. Met some lovely people over in Lalibela that showed me around. Hope they're fine. First the uprisings around Konso/Karat and now Tigré, hope that Ethiopians caught in the crossfire are able to cope. መልካም ምኞት
This war would Balkanize Ethiopia . The federal government cannot even exert its authority outside the capital city . Even if it somehow got all the rebel forces to work together, the stark difference in military prowess between the two countries is staggering . The assumption a country in danger of total fragmentation could invade Eritrea , a country that’s basically been working on its military since its birth is preposterous to say the least . This would set the whole region back a decade
If wishes were horses beggars would ride it. There is no way on earth Ethiopia would win these wars. Abey is deluded. The vast majority of Ethiopians already want to secede from that union that was created by the British colonialist after Menelik I sided with them. Oromo region, Somali region, Afar region and Gambella region all became part of Ethiopia after Menelik gave 20,000 soldiers to fight for the British cause in Horn of Africa. Oromo region, Somali region, Afar region and Tigray region will all try to secede, if Abey try this nonsense.
@@skyshooter4009 I wholeheartedly agree with you . Ethiopia is a country that was created with the help of outside forces as opposed to being created organically through a common shared identity
@@skyshooter4009 Dont say Ethiopia! If the Amharas are on the same page with Abiy, Isayas wouldn't survive for a week!! Luckily for the Eritreans, the Amharas aren't buying Abiy's war mongering and the Amhara youth is fighting him!
@@Daniel-dw4fc Funny how you talk about Abey war mongering and you think Tigrayans should be persecuted. Abey is a clown and most of you are blood thirsty. Ethiopia will forever remain landlocked and unstable. As a matter of fact every tribe should rule their own territory and secede from a vicious union that was recently created by European colonialists and their puppets.
@@Daniel-dw4fc You have massively underestimated Eritreans love for their country. They have paid dearly to get it back, and even if the 120 million of Ethiopians are soldiers, they might win battles, but they wouldn't win the war. You should refer to history when the whole Ethiopia supported by superpowers fought Eritrea, which culminated to the defeat of the biggest army in Africa. Eritreans are born to fight for their country. We don't rush to war, because we understand the price of it, but if an aggressor comes to our doorsteps, we wouldn't care who you are, or how big you are...
As American soldier from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit based in central Somalia this is very interesting topic hopefully Ethiopia does not invade Somalia where they would put us involved
It takes an exceptional leader to pull off these kinds of risky geopolitical maneuvers. And judging from his past performance, Abiy Ahmed is no Bismarck.
Not really. The eastern coastline is not very defendable. And there would be no major sanctions as long as it's framed as a liberation, given Eritrea's current situation and its relationship with Russia. As long as they build good enough defensive lines, the operation itself should be relatively trivial.
@@VVayVVard If war actually happens TPLF from Tigray is going to join in for 2 reasons. Revenge against Eritrea and so that TPLF Tigray can have access to the ocean and not be landlocked anymore. The reason why Tigray lost the war against Ethiopia and Eritrea was because of a 360 all sides siege which is very easily done when its a landlocked territory. It's not easy to landlock a territory that has access to the ocean.
As an Eritrean living in Ethiopia, I must say... what an absolutely spectacular video, hit the nail right on the head on pretty much all the topics, the history is accurate, the motives are accurate, and the sentiments are accurate. Perhaps, one slight inaccuracy (which is something impossible to perceive without actually being on the ground) may have been the portrayal of the PM as an Ethiopian nationalist... While this is how he portrays himself and while it is what pretty much everybody, including myself, thought him to be in 2018; his actions seem to indicate otherwise, by that I mean: the restructuring of his entire leadership demographics to lean HEAVILY towards the Oromo ethnic group, outside of obvious blunders like appointing the leader of the Amhara region (on paper) to be someone who can barely speak the language, it's quite noticeable across all government offices and public institutions throughout the capital. To make matters worse, this ethnic based redistribution of public positions is inevitably followed by an EXTREMELY evident selective behavior towards the public looking to receive government services with Afan Oromo speakers having clear favor, which honestly is exactly what was happening before when other ethnic groups rose to power, though perhaps not as much in the open. Anyway, this behavior by the PM and his associates has led to the ostracization of his prosperity party, by pretty much all the ethnic regions, including the Oromia region who, rather ironically, sees the PM's actions as not being severe enough...... and I'm now realizing this comment is a lot longer than it ever needed to be. Anyway, great video, love what you and the guys from Wendover are doing at Nebula. Keep up the good work.
I was stationed in Asmara Eritrea at Kagnew Station (4th USASA Field Station) in 1962-63. One of the most incredible US Army bases. From the only CinimaScope theater to Miniature Golf course in Africa. We (Americans) were treated very well by the Eritreans. The insurgency did not affect the Americans initially, but the U.S. did not support a separate Eritrea and that affected how the insurgency groups started seeing the U.S. as part of the problem preventing Eritrean independence or at least following (mandating) the UN resolution for federation with Ethiopia. One problem not usually mentioned was the initial independence groups were supported by both Russia and China who gave weapons, training and money. Remember the Ethiopian government tried to dismantle the Eritrean language, political system and absorb any thoughts of independence as a people and state. As for a war being inevitable between Eritrea and Ethiopia, I agree that it is a great possibility almost a “Manifest Destiny” for both countries.
I’ve been to what remains of Kagnew it’s sad because the US and Eritrea could have been strong allies if it was not for Dulles and the US position on Eritrean self determination.
US made and is still doing a strategic mistake by supporting anti-eritrean self determination it’s funny though to see them supporting ISRAEL against Arab nations even though it was big vs small and in eritrea ethiopia case was the same.
Why didn't they fight against their colonizers Italy and England if they saw America as insurgents? Their movement for independence came after Ethiopia became a socialist country, which upset the USA. However, the USA made a big mistake by causing Ethiopia to shift sides during the war with Somalia. The USA held military ammunition that Ethiopia had bought from them, leaving Ethiopia with no choice but to seek aid from Russia. This led to Ethiopia becoming a socialist country at that time, which angered the USA. As a result, the USA and its allies supported rebel groups to fight against the regime, including the Eritrean independence movement. That's why, my friend.
I sincerely hope the twoo nations can figure out a better way of resolving their dispute without going to war. As a Nigerian, I am aware that outside counties are always looking for way to exploit Africans , we must not give them the chance to do that.
didn't u hear 1/5 of Ethiopian population lives off aid from foreign nations and organizations. Poor people but what do you think it would happen if that stopped smartass? People dying all over the place of hunger and diseases.
Ew no. Eritrean leader is extremely oppressive and a dictator that forces its civilians as slaves. They have only 8 million people yet are the most in representation of refugees
Ok my man you are trying to stop the inevitable. Let’s think about this, your continent has 5 regional geographic areas right?. But also has tooooo many tribes, ethnics languages, dialects and……….. so the fuel ⛽️ is there, only need the flame. The real fats are there. Why do you have those mega populations like Asian countries?. Those millions and millions of illiteracy people are a big treat to any government. That’s a big concern watching how your countries are competing each other for having more populations.
Eric I have to thanks you for this. After reading you comment and others and others and watching this video about Africa Horns my mind went back when I was a child. I’m Cuban and I remember long ago (70’s)seeing to the Ethiopian president passing close to my house in the Fidel’s caravans in his visit to Cuba. Rapidly started to find information about the Ogaden War and why Cuba and the Soviet Union wanted that African region. I love History and Geopolitics and that’s why without knowing the very beginning of the conflict that the people MOST TO EDUCATE. Peace ☮️
By the way, it is not a “desire to take Guyana’s territory”. It is Venezuela’s. Just because Venezuela is ruled by a dictator does not mean that Venezuela’s claim is not legitimate.
@@Luitschez fair opinion, I said "desire" as they are seemingly taking action to claim that land, regardless of who is there now... Venezuelans are not; so they intend to claim it. I am aware of the historical context, and we must keep watching how things unravel.
@@Luitschez Say "it's Venezuelas" is way too categorical statement. There is no clear agreement or historical background that would indicate that it simply is Venezuelas. It's a very complicated matter with a bunch of treaties, border agreements and disagreements going back hundreds of years between different colonial powers (Britain, Spain, Netherlands), way before Venezuela or Guyana existed as countries.
incredible, imagine the wikipedia rabbitholes you would have to go down to understand this conflict. I had to watch the Y So Many Bases In Djibouti episode first as preface and have basically spent 10% of my day so far on this even with the deft summarization.
i live in somalia right now and i am sure it isnt good for the region that Ethopia wants to invade eriteria , i hope abiy holds his peace prize to its core
sooner or later this problem will have to be resolved. If the African continent wanted to avoid war, they could agree to an exchange of territory between Eritrea and Ethiopia. it is an immutable fact. When diplomacy proves insufficient, war becomes extremely necessary.
Lmao, his nobel peace prize is such an insult to peace itself and a fucking embarassing thing that i would call for a removal of the nobel peace prize for this guy, like they remove him from the list
I believe the LAPSSET project in Kenya would be an important solution to open both Ethiopia and South Sudan to a viable sea port. This would give Ethiopia an alternative port to exploit, and it would therefore provide a stronger bargaining power for the country. I'm sure this would prove to be the turning point for the country.
Ethiopia doesn’t have any port problems the government of Eritrea gives them to use freely but ethiopia asks ownership a damaged country puppet of western ethnic conflicts omg
Their is no such thing as somaliland so I actually ur the one that needs to be updated 🤦 Ethiopia needs to stop trying to divide the Somali people and focuse on ur internal conflicts just a little advise💯🇸🇴Ethiopia will not get any access to the sea as long as their is even one Somali person still living wake up from the dream already 🥴✌🏻
nice, I was almost half way through the video, with multiple countries going to war and all kinds of horrible shit happening, and I was like "surely it can't get any worse than this" and next sentence my boy real life lore is like "and an apocalyptic famine broke loose"
Are you kidding me?! It's a rehash of prejudiced nonsense about Africa. The author of the script has clearly never lived in Ethiopia and seen how the ethnic groups interact as individuals.
Bruh none of his videos contain any valuable infos about anything. Just a bunch of stereotypes and general knowledges on google. No educated conclusion, everything is "may happen soon", check out his B.S videos on Russia and China about to collapse
The only solution here is for Ethiopia and Eritrea to join the East African Community, which will then make rivalries irrelevant as the EAC trades as a single block. Somalia just joined two weeks ago.
This video is really eye-opening. I didn't know about the tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Thanks for explaining this complex situation so clearly!
Phenomenal video. Don't underatand why, despite being subscribed to you, TH-cam doesn't recommend your video to me when you upload. Had to search for your channel to come across this video. Kept me engaged for 50 minutes straight, seriously fantastic quality
It's not fully accurate, though. 1 fact is: Eritrea has never voluntarily been 1 country with Ethiopia. Many emperors tried to get access to the red sea, but failed, including Emperor Yohannes and Emperor Fasilidas. I'm saying this because you said "..over 100 years.."
Well, one is a one time payment, the other is an annual payment to an effective Monopoly. They have strong incentives to take military actions. If Eritrea were smart, they should try to get the Russian navy to come. Or they need to dismantle the port to make it less appealing to take. But in either case: they seem not to be interested in offering acceptable harbor fees for a harbor no one else uses and they didn't build up themselves.
it's not a one time payment. Eritrean patriots will never give up, as their ancestors fought many decades, form the 50s-90s just to be free. Abiy is trying to end like Haile Selassie. He might even lead his country to a future that Jugoslavia suffered. Fano might use the war to take him down. There is no internal unity in Ethiopia. There is internal unity in Eritrea. @@trillionbones89
Firstly,thank you author RealLifeLore for this detailed history of that region.I would recommend to Eritreya to simply build highway 3 lanes from that port to Ethiopia and grant access to it,and seek some billions from Ethiopia as a compensation for it.
Eritrea never refused providing sea access, Eritrea is seeking fair trade deal however your leaders want to use our port for free or unfair deal. We Eritrean are asking for deal based on international law but your PM has refused.
Ethiopia can use Kenyan, Djibouti, Somali, Sudani and Eritrean ports. All these countries have been competing for Ethiopian customers. First, Abiy Ahmed wants to divert Ethiopian domestic problems. Secondly, Ethiopian wants to expand its territory like Russia and China is doing. I know for certain, If Ethiopia tries to invade Eritrea they will loose terribly and that will be the end of Ethiopia.
@@queentanya3787 I don't see any one with alphabet and letters in Africa, which Ethiopia you talking about? Is that the one identified by your history tellers? Unacceptable.
Does Ethiopia take into consideration that any port it somehow managed to gain would take quite some time to come online especially considering sanctions going in but the fact that the Djibouti port or rail could simply be shut? I mean its not like 8 military powers are sitting right next to it thus crippling its export/import capabilities.
Eritrea is called the North Korea of Africa (for good reason) they have a slave army do you really think nations will sanction Ethiopia for taking him down?
Lol are you naive? If the war is quick, as it would suggest given Eteopias big population, no western government would intervene. There is plenty going on far more important places political right now.
Just finished my geography college class and have a new found appreciation for this study. As a kid, I thought it was boring but now it’s mixing pot of either wars or ancient conflicts that are leading to wars
My grandparents on my mothers side immigrated from Eritrea to Germany as war refugee's in the 70's to escape this conflict. At the time, Germany was still making reparations to improve its international image on the world stage following ww2, so they took in many war refugee families & also many people from Türkiye, etc., as Germany also needed many people to rebuild its economy + infrastructure.. not to mention that Germany was literally still split into two countries; the Allied NATO nations put a lot of pressure on West Germany and its economy to rebuild as quickly as possible, compared to the Soviet controlled East Germany counterpart of the Cold War era. My mother grew up in West Germany & met my father who was an American servicemember stationed in Germany through the Army in the late 90's - early 00's. I just separated from active duty Air Force myself 2 years ago.. just wanted to provide you some context as to how these types of conflicts can deeply impact families. Keep using that TA & try to commission if you can (or GI Bill if you're out already). Good luck & Aim High.
why is the issue here Eritrean ports has been free for Ethiopia use since 1991 unfortunately the leader of Ethiopia using Eritrean port was more beneficial to Eritrea's growth for that reason he has decided to used Djibouti port it's Ethiopian fault not to blame Eritreans...
I pray for peace in East Africa from Nigeria! I understand the conflicts are complicated, and Western powers meddling in our affairs do not help. Hopefully, one day, we can free ourselves!
As a American born man with parents who are Somali I understand where Ethiopia is coming from but I really hope there isn’t any war and all countries involved come to a peaceful agreement that’s beneficial to all parties
@@hiroshigozhaimashda9304 Abiy is not Muslim, he's a protestant Christian, his party is called "Prosperity Party" He's from a Muslim Oromo father and Orthodox Amhara mother, and he's a protestant, his wife is an orthodox Christian from Gondar, Amhara too, what a confusing diversity! I wonder what his children would consider themselves. Such a relationship causes irreligious children most of the time
Thank you guys for another informative update episode. I remember following the civil war not long ago. I'm sorry to see things are still looking potentially violent and tumultuous over there. Hopefully the people will have peace soon. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
@@jh4225 Wanting someone else land does not give you the right to invade . If they do invade , Eritrea that saved them 2 years ago will show us what it will do ! ethiopia is not even stable as a nation , let alone invade .
Your videos and topics are so well done and put together... I'm watching videos about topics I typically wouldn't pay attention to... simply because you make the topics interesting and educational. Well done...and please keep it up.
I appreciate the effort went to into making this video, it's immensely informative and educating, even though I'm from this region, both from Somalia and Ethiopia, this is really eye opening unfolding, but one country to capture another country by force is deplorable act, but the information provided here is priceless.
All countries are formed and maintained by force. You can't escape this brute fact of the world. If Ethiopia can't gain access to the sea by diplomacy, they can go for it by force with those kind of numbers.
@@JoBlakeLisbonEthiopia boarders were created by British colonialist. European colonialist couldn't give them access to the sea, how on earth do you think impoverished Ethiopia can acquire access and then held on to it? The vast majority of Ethiopia are already trying to secede from a union that was forced upon them. This is just a deluded dream that will never happen. The smallest region in Ethiopia almost destroyed them completely. Invading a foreign country will make it crumble.
I had an eritrean housemate, one time another roommate and I were talking about how our deadbeat dads are pieces of shit and this guy said "Idk my dad he died in the war" and got really quiet and very sad, another roommate walked in later and even he noticed he was very sad but he said he was okay, it made us feel bad about complaining abt our 1st world problems..He used to wake up screaming at night too, war is terrible and has lasting effects on ppl! Hope he's doing better now.😢
As a french, I'm not in a position to give any lesson. Yet I hope Ethiopians and Erythreans will find a way to solve this issue peacefully. War is always the worst thing that can happen, and given enough motivation, humans from any given country are the fiercest fighters.
Eritreans never wanted war. It is imposed on us. Unfortunately, Ethiopia is always an ally of the US, and takes instructions as such. It needs political independence but aid and loans are preconditions for Ethiopia to fight its neighbors all the time
As always, we love your all the work you do and productions you make. Please, please though, could you make the text in your color coded description boxes a wee bit larger? Even when zooming in on the mobile phone screen it's still a rough time making out what the text contained says. So please, in future vids which we are most eager to keep watching, make the text just a font size or two larger. That would really help us old with fading eyes geezers out. Thank you so much!
Everyone is thinking the same thing. "Quick, all the major arms exporters and military juggernauts are distracted! Let's start all the wars we fantasized about!"
The problem of starting a war when the big boys are distracted by their own wars is where are you going to buy your ammo and replacement weapons from? If the USA is committed to arming and supplying Israel and Ukraine and Russia has no guns and ammo to spare and therefore the prices of weapons and ammo has gone through the roof then you could find yourself in a very hard place in a few months when your army has run out of tank ammo and your solders just don't have the supplies necessary to continue the campaign..
As a Nigerian 🇳🇬. I have always been interested in knowing more about east Africa. They seem to be quite but I didn’t know that silence is due to years of unwarranted bloody wars, they seem to be very tired and stressed (who wouldn’t). We seem to have the same issues in Nigeria caused by external interference... they really destroyed Africa, but just like all of history, there’s a time for war and a time for peace. Noting last forever.
Eritrea's troubles has nothing to do with the conspiracy of the West or whatever. It has everything to do with the communist tyrant that is ruling it autocratically through mass military enslavement of the youth and material impoverishment of the populace.
@opanugatobi1131 As an African-American (Ethiopian mixed with some West African), Gaddafi was right, we need a united Africa. What does that mean exactly? One money, One military, One coast. Only then, us 42,000,000 African Americans (and the bright African minds who recently left Africa seeking stability) will return and the rest is history. I don't know if mirroring the governments of Africa with the EU will be a success... all I know is that the borders drawn by foreign nations which were enforced by conquest, colonization, and abduction will not stand the test of time. There's only two directions to go, more separation into smaller countries/regions/states, or the formation of larger nations/empires/kingdoms. Only time will tell, but we are certainly heading towards stability and I'm all for it.
37:46 community note here :abiy didn't wage war agianst tigray in novemeber 2020 but it was response to tplf(tigray governing party )attack on the ethiopian national defense forces that strated the war in novemeber4,2020 which lasted for 2 years
don't lie. Abyi invaded Trigray and committed genocide with the help of The Amhara regional forces and the tyrant Issayas . I should know, I am Eritrean.
As a Somali watching this im not surprised. We all know that before colonialism arrived we had no borders, instead we had differences in religion and culture. In the Berlin Africa conference, Amhara king Menelik asked for the Somali region of Ogaden to be given to him, in which they did. Italy kept Eritrea. If Ethiopia go to war this that will be the end as a country.
Ethiopia invading Eritrea will be its biggest strategic blunder in its history. It will likely result in balkanisation of the modern Ethiopian state. Egypt will love this because of the Gerd so will both factions in Sudan. Somalia and Somalis in the Ogaden are waiting for an opportunity to reunite with their kin. All in all Ethiopia is finished if they go through with this. Far too many nations will support Eritrea to win for their own benefit and will consequently fund them. Also major global powers are far too distracted with their own issues to save Ethiopia from collapse. Not to mention the many Ethiopian ethnic groups that want self determination.
didn't people say the same thing when Ethiopia was building their dam against everyone's wishes? lol the US even cut $100M aid to Ethiopia over that dispute back in 2020... yet, three years later the dam is fully built, filled, and the US is back to providing aid to Ethiopia like nothing ever happened.
Forgot to mention that Egypt is supporting Tigray with weapons and will prevent Ethiopia from invading Eritrea as it's promising protection to ships coming from Suez.
I remember being in Ethiopia when he was swan into office. Back in 2018 the Ethiopians were extremely excited about tge power changes away from the tygray based government that had been in power since 1993. Dr Abby had been a great diplomat and the first person in Ethiopias history with a college degree in leadership. Now in 2023, Dr Abby looks like every other Ethiopian head of state prior to the tygray government.
Hate him or love him non of them equate with Meles Zenaw when it comes to brain. Its him who laid a good foundation, universities, roads..... he has done more for Ethiopia than any other, (the federal had its own problem but then again the regions do to) This new one just want to make things look pretty on the outside, its like he is trying to build the tallest skyscraper with no sewer,
We spilled enough blood of each other in both side of border our moms deserve a moments of peace and reflect. Nothing worth spilling a drop of our Ethiopian brothers and sisters on behalf of A.Ahmed or A.Afewerki . We will work out to solve all our issues in a civil and peaceful way .we can't change the past but,absolutely we can change the future
Well done RRL, you nailed it as always! As an Ethiopian, I'm beyond infuriated and exhausted by this development. The Tigray war already cost us so much, and the wounds will never heal. Now our so-called 'leader' thinks starting another war is brilliant - what an idiot! Families, mine included, can't recover from the first disaster, and he's trying to drag us into another one. Ethiopia needs a port, sure...but through more bloodshed, not a chance! Life is already a living hell here - the economy is in ruins, inflation breathtaking, meanwhile extravagant expenditures still continue. It's heartbreaking💔 and many of us are plotting our escape from this nightmare.
It's totally bad. How can Eritrea take over the whole of the coastline mend for Ethiopia. Eritrea should stop pettiness and hand over assab to the people of Ethiopia to benefit.
Once you've invested in military projection as a form of getting what you want, you're incentivized to see all of your obstacles as targets, and resolution of problems as kills.
the PM of Ethiopia initially insisted on peaceful talks with the other countries, none were interested. he then offered them shares in the two biggest projects related to Ethiopia (Ethiopian Airlines and the GERD) in exchange for port access but again, they rejected. this unfortunately leaves war as the only option.
You thought that because you don't know all he presented was a campaign not facts. Ask any Eastern Africans such as Somalis, Eritreans, Sudanese and Djibouti and you will learn
What he is propagating is mere bullshit! Don't trust this bloodshed person. I think he is thirsty to consume the blood of innocent people by creating a bullshit narration.
Hot take: Those contries that seem drawn on the map only so that some other country DOESN'T get access to a sea or some valuable ressource should not exist. They are so patently there for colonial interests, It's just ridiculous. Work a reunification or something.
Only over our dead bodies. Eritrea is one of the most isolated countries because our government rejects "aid" with ulterior motives. It is the only African country that never played the corrupt geopolitical game, which in Africa's case is 'bribe the politicians and get the resources for cheap'. Ethiopia is one of the countries that is very notorious for playing this game, as they receive Billions of Aid money, but instead of helping people who are starving, they build 10 Billion dollar presidential palaces and make their politicians rich. If you had watched the video, you would have noticed that. The only reason why Eritrea wasn't independent earlier is because America wanted Ethiopia as their ally against Russia. So they let Ethiopia colonize us and ban our languages. Eritrean patriotism is real and more genuine than patriotism in most countries, because the people who fought and died for us to be free are alive. We have no one but ourselves to stand with us. No one helped Eritrea to win and become independent. The Western countries ignored our suffering (most ordinary people in the West didn't even know that it was happening) and Russia sponsored Ethiopia after the communists overthrew Haile Selassie. Eritrea only exist because the love of its 9 ethnic groups for one another and their will to fight their enemies together. There are zero tribal conflicts in Eritrea, unlike in Ethiopia where all ethnic groups hate each other enough to kill each other on a regular basis. Yet their governments are always seeking imperialist and colonialist goals instead of caring about their own people. And Eritreans will not let them have their way.
This might have worked out after the nobel peace prize and a decade or two of good or at least non-belligerently grumpy relations (and probably a political change in Eritrea). I think the ship for a peaceful reunification has sailed for a while now. And even non-peaceful, this land grab is honest but a bad idea on so many levels...
You have it the wrong way round, Go look at an ethnic map of east Africa and you’ll see Ethiopia has far more land than it should anyway. Their biggest state is almost exclusively inhabited by Somalis but they won’t allow them to reunite with their kin. They created some bs artificial triangle border thanks to the British.
Maybe I got my phrasing wrong in a needlessly infamatory way. I agree that no nation of people should be part of a state they.. well, don't want to belong to. But some details in the drawing of certain borders are ridculous. Say Eritreans for real don't want to be merged into Ethiopia for identity, culture, history, pride whatever. That's perfectly fine. But who could tell me they can't possible remit a small strip to either side so that that both countries can have access to the sea? Is every square meter of that land densely inhabited by enthusiastically nationalistic Eritreans? I seriously doubt it. I'm from South America and this happens here too. Bolivia is landlocked and they've been continuously requesting an opening to the sea for more than a century, with both Chile and Peru either oppossing or dragging their feet. Further south in my own country, Argentina and Chile's southern borders have been drawn just so either country doesn't get access to both the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. It's moroninc that us empoverished countries are blocking and shafting each other in order to get a cut of taxes from each other's dire needs instead of building each other up into a wealthy region. It's dumb, but it seems every petty kingdom when having the chance to take a few pennies from the unfortunatedly circumstance of their own sister-nation will do it without a second thought. It's dumb, it's evil and it should end. All countries should be arranged to maximize their needs, self-sufficiency and potential.
As a somali, it's sad that the soviet betrayed us, ogaden have been cut short of food and that has caused a famine because of a state that simply dont care about them. It's simply a prison for somalis in ethiopia. The war that was lost did cause the civil war, and has lost countless of people because of that, i wish my home country, can simply return back to stability and a golden age.
As American soldier from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit based in central Somalia this is very interesting topic hopefully Ethiopia does not invade Somalia where they would put us involved
I love your content Joe, I really do. I've learned so much from your videos and these modern conflicts are extremely interesting. But sometimes I miss videos asking how big a hole we can dig. 😂
Half of my brain: " This is depressing and anxiety-inducing. The last thing humanity needs - the last thing the planet needs - is yet another war." The other half: "Ji-BOOTY! Hehehehe."
Its not, they literally stole that name, Aethiopia was name of African continent specially Sudan/Chad. the current Aethiopian country was much smaller and was known as Habash or Abyssinia, go and search about that name. The colonials specially British empire helped them annex more territories and people that are not Abyssinians that country shady genocides/ ethnic cleansing happen every day because they share nothing with each other its basically a fake country
Horn of Africa and its current issues. 😊 The Horn of Africa is a region that consists of four countries: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Djibouti. It is also home to various ethnic, religious, and political groups, such as the Amhara, the Oromo, the Tigray, the Afar, the Somali, the Harari, the Sidama, the Tigre, the Kunama, the Saho, the Rashaida, the Beja, the Nubian, the Coptic, the Muslim, the Christian, the Orthodox, the Protestant, the Catholic, the TPLF, the EPRDF, the PP, the ONLF, the SLF, the SNM, the SSDF, the ARS, the ICU, the ASWJ, the al-Shabaab, the AMISOM, the IGAD, the AU, and many others . The Horn of Africa is a region that faces many challenges and opportunities, such as poverty, famine, drought, conflict, violence, terrorism, piracy, human rights, democracy, governance, development, trade, investment, migration, refugees, peace, security, cooperation, integration, and regionalism . The Horn of Africa is a region that has a rich and diverse culture and history, such as the ancient kingdoms of Aksum, D’mt, Kush, Meroë, Punt, and Saba, the medieval states of Adal, Ifat, Shewa, Medri Bahri, and Aussa, the modern empires of Ethiopia and Somalia, the colonial era of Italy, France, and Britain, the independence movements of Eritrea and Djibouti, the revolutions of Ethiopia and Somalia, the civil wars of Ethiopia and Somalia, the border wars of Ethiopia and Eritrea, the peace processes of Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the federalism of Ethiopia and Somalia . The Horn of Africa is a region that has a lot of potential and promise, as it is endowed with natural resources, such as water, land, minerals, oil, gas, livestock, and fish, as well as human resources, such as a young and dynamic population, a skilled and educated workforce, a vibrant and creative civil society, and a visionary and reformist leadership . The Horn of Africa is a region that is worth learning more about, as it is a fascinating and important part of the world, with a lot of relevance and influence on the global stage, as well as a lot of lessons and insights for the rest of the world. 😊
Eritrea beat Ethiopia in 1991 and became a legitimate country! I’m 100% sure they will do it again🇪🇷🇸🇴🫡 we are the best fighters in Africa, we don’t call Cuba and Christian countries for help!!!
Somalia is possibly the most irrelevant country in all of Africa, so you thrive on trying to ignite conflicts. Misery loves company. Ethiopians are not in support of Abiy, and haven't been for a while. Ethiopian and Eritrean people are inseparable. But it would be in Eritrea's own interest to diplomatically sell Assab to Ethiopia, for a price of course. It is cut of from the Eritrean population, and the once lively city is now a ghost town with a dead economy. The Ethiopian government were urged to take it when mapping out borders during Eritrea's independence 30 years ago, and the Ethiopian government of that time (TPLF) declined, probably thinking Tigray would secede and annex eritrea sometime in the future.
@@servant_symmI have a better idea. I think Eritrea and Tegray (and possibly Afar) should unite as all these regions are inhabited by people of the same ethnic groups. Eritrea is an artificial legacy of colonialism anyway. There is no reason why they should not unite and form a more organic state, demographically speaking.
You have your own country we will respect that but we want aport and we should fight for it to get a port ,have you seen your own country on a map ? That ridiculous elongated port, no country is created or looks funny , like it's obvious your taking what's not yours , so you naturally happen to have all the ports 😂 so part of the port should come to ethiopia
Makes me want to see if I still have a HS research project I did on Ethiopia and see what I wrote about it back around the turn of the century. Thank you so much for this channel and all the history I am learning because of it.
If Ethiopia 🇪🇹 invades Eritrea 🇪🇷 there is a high chance that Somalia 🇸🇴 might join the war and keep in mind Egypt 🇪🇬 and Sudan 🇸🇩 are breathing on Ethiopia’s neck so this might lead the regions of Ethiopia declaring independence and becoming a separate country leading to the complete collapse of Ethiopia
weak anylisis, -Somalia have no intention of joining this war, what is Somalia going to do with 50k soldiers fight Alshabab or get toasted in a war that doesn't concern them; -Egypt and Sudan are busy, Sudan is in a civil war let alone fighting Ethiopia Egypt will also find it difficult for logistics since Sudan is not functional -Ethiopias disintegration is impossible as the documentary said people have been saying that over 100 years yet here we are intact! please educate yourself on this area before giving this kind of comment.
@@jhonywalker1168 Somalia might not but alshabab sure will. When the Tigray war was taking place Al shabab used the opportunity to attack Ethiopia and take some land.
18:40 Tigray expansion to " Tselemt , Tsegedie ,Woqait , Humera " an Amhara land come later, few years after the fall of Mengistu and Eritrean independence . That is why it is on the hands of the Amhara today .
1. Eritrea didn't sever its port from Ethiopia in 1998. It is Ethiopia who sever the use of the Eritrean ports. You can do a simple google search and find out the former prim minister of Ethiopia(late prime minister Meles Zenawi) said using Eritrean ports(Assab and Massawa) will benefit Eritrea more than Ethiopia and Ethiopia stopped using the ports of Eritrea. 2. @37:41 If Ethiopia try to invade Eritrea or part of Eritrea the world might help or not, but one thing is clear, every Eritrean will fight for its sovereignty even the person like me who despise and oppose the current ruling government in Eritrea. Dictator ruling is one thing but Sovereignty is another. 3. @43:50 The single road between Asmara or Massawa to Assab is not much used by the Eritrean government, it is just for public services(Which is not much), the government/militaries use the sea to and from Assab, so that road has no consequence on the war whether the road is near or far from the Ethio-Eritrea boarder. All in all war never been a solution for development or anything, what the current prime minister of Ethiopia saying or doing is wrong, this will lead the entire region to chaos. Everyone should stand against it, and work on diplomacy for better prosperity and development of that region. The resource or geography is not a problem in that region, the problem always has been the leaders with their personal ego and agenda. The Ethiopians, the Eritreans, the Somalians don't need to go to war to develop and prosper but to work together with respecting each others sovereignty. PEACE TO ALL.
@@Beeswax106 If Eritrea gives sea access to Ethiopia they will look at it as losing their sovereignty. Eritrea prides itself on neglecting sea access to their Ethiopian neighbors. They even taunt Ethiopia at times in some of their songs for having sea access while Ethiopia doesn't. Nonetheless, the biggest reason Eritrea wants to deprive Ethiopia from having sea access is to prevent Ethiopia from growing economically into a regional power that could rival Egypt or the Saudis. Eritrea has a long history of collaborating with Arabs/Europeans to undermine and sabotage Ethiopian development.
@@DWEthiopiaEthiopia warred against Eritrea to occupy her Sea coast but Eritrean people will never give up an inch of Eritrean land to any foreigner without fighting for it. The fact that you think Eritreans are spiteful to Ethiopians for simply being patriotic says more about Ethiopians than it says about Eritreans. Have you ever heard of Eritreans complaining whenever Ethiopians celebrate their victory over Italy (at Eritrea's expence)?
@@heruy8274 Yes I have. I've seen it many times actually. I've seen Eritreans make hateful/spiteful comments about any positive news coming out of Ethiopia. Whether its Ethiopian victory in Adwa, Ethiopia's recent admission to BRICS, and even the development of the GERD. There are countless Eritreans that secretly and openly support/advocate causes that harm Ethiopia/Ethiopians. Many Ethiopians look to Eritreans as brothers/sisters and even welcome them with open arms in their cities/villages. What do they get in return? Many Eritreans even find success in Ethiopia opening up businesses. Can you say the same for Ethiopians in Eritrea? If you want to pretend like the Eritrean government and their intelligence networks don't have their hand in Ethiopian domestic issues, I won't fall for it.
Ethiopia has great ambitions and they’re really rolling the dice on this one. If Ahmad messes this up he’s gonna be the one to unite the chaotic Somalia to wage a war against him. One that his country nearly lost if it wasn’t for Russia pulling that uno reverse in the 70’s
I think all the neighboring countries should invade Ethiopia and teach them a lesson. Just because they have the number they want to be the bully of the neighbors. Maybe one day! Lucky for them all the neigbours are in a mess except Kenya and Uganda
@@Beeswax106 No Eritrea will never give up their land. It is Eritrean land and they will keep it and if Ethiopia attempts to attack Eritrea just know Eritreans will fight to the end
@@Beeswax106 Life isn't all rosy and fairytale like there are times when there can be no love and Eritreans have spent 30+ years fighting for their freedom from the oppressive Ethiopian regimes
They were arrogant corrupted leaders. They always thought to make an independent state of their own or if possible, to liberate Eritrea and build a joint state with Eritrea and Tigray, leaving Ethiopia at some point if they were to be faced with rebellion. That's why they never make any attempt to access the port. THEY KNOW IF THEY GAin ACCESS TO THE PORT WHILE RULLING Ethiopia, THEY WONT USE IT ONCE THEY CONTROLL ERTIREA AND MAKE THEIR DREAM STATE. They were in power for over 27years and armed their state (Tigrian) to the teeth which would been used in the Tigrian war on the video.
They really had no other choice. They were armed and trained by eplf, and the eplf even helped them capture Addis Ababa. The tplf didn’t want to fight with the eplf because they had better military equipment and experience.
I thought the same thing but apparently (according to my parents who were born and raised in Ethiopia during that time) the tplf didn't want to give Assab to Ethiopia because they were hoping to eventually separate from the country and seize Assab for themselves as a sovereign state.
How can you say that Eritrea was a free country before the Ethiopians broke the federation and invaded as? Eritrea had never been a part of Ethiopia in all of history your ideology of thinking or the story they teach you is not straight. if Eritrea was part of Ethiopia before. 1:how can you guys say Ethiopia is never been colonised? 2 Even if in the Axumayt kingdom, the region is distributed to India, and Yemen so how can you say only Eritrea is part of it? 3:Eritrea after 30 years of war we get our independence not because of Mele's sign or the Ethiopian government's signature. We are a country before that if you think this is a lie go and check it on Google you will find the truth there.
After World War II, Eritrea annexed to Ethiopia. Following the communist Ethiopian government's defeat in 1991 by the coalition created by various armed groups notably the EPLF and the TPLF among others, Eritrea declared its independence. Eritrea officially celebrated its 1st anniversary of independence on May 24,1994.
As a eritrean/jamaican im sad to see how my people are dying of hunger, I dont want people to suffer, please guys help my ethnic country eritrea please 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷
@@Hgddddswwwtg IM HALF ERITREAN AND HALF JAMAICAN ARE YOU DUM DID YOU SEE THE "eritrean/jamaican"?? NEVER CALL ME A NON-ERITREAN. I AM ERITREAN!!! I AM ALSO JAMAICAN!!! SO SHUT UP AND NEVER CALL ME THAT
Today (November 28, 1520) Ferdinand Magellan achieved a historic maritime milestone by successfully navigating his fleet through a passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
On the western part of the world you also have Venezuela and Guyana having a bit of a fit as well. With Venezuela wanting to seize 2/3rds of Guyana due to gold and oil. Edit grammar fixes.
As an Ethiopian, a sea outlet is a massive issue for us, but we're tired of wars, and most importantly Eritreans are our siblings we don't want to fight
Literally any foreigner would struggle to differentiate between an Ethiopian and Eritrean cultures, because we're basically the same nation, different nationalities
And more than my fear for ourselves, I fear for Eritreans because their leader would conscript all the population, the Eritrean dictator will force his 5 million people to throw themselves into war, which would lead to the greatest humanitarian catastrophe and probably the bloodiest in the 21st century (which means that Ethiopia will break its own record)
If Ethiopia invades Somalia it will be a big reason for us Somalis to liberate our Somali region occupied by Ethiopia the Ethiopians lost to us in 1977 until Russia can to their rescue so they know to not fuck with us
As a portuguese, thank you for the Past very good relations. I wish the best for Ethiopia
Sounds like Russia and Ukraine
Almost the same Culture, very similar language, the same religion, etc but still in constant war
@@daviroza4700 we obviously care for our Somali brothers in Ethiopian Somali land and outside, I have a lot of Somali friends here in addis as well, but You Somalis think you someone in east Africa but you are really nothing in comparison,
as to our Eritrean brother we love you and what ever the government decides we will support you independence
Gives a funny perspective if you look at Russian/Ukrainian war like that
Absolutely devastating..
As an Eritrean, I am not necessarily against Ethiopia gaining access to Assab, but it must be through diplomatic agreements. Everything else is unthinkable.
We are siblings, how can we kill each other? It breaks my heart man.
As an Ethiopian my dream is to be united with eritrea again in some sort of United Republics of East Africa we belong together.
@@Sam_Guevenne As an Eritrean no such thing as unity with Ethiopians already tried it caused massive destruction on our people.
But we could maybe someday see an EU type of BLOC with you and rest of east africans which is based on mutual respect of each other’s identity,sovereignty.
@@HolaBruv I... don't think that's gonna happen with Somalia being as it is.
@@E4439Qv5 Somalia is rebuilding itself
@@Sam_Guevenne well keep dreaming then 😂
We Ethiopians seek development and modernity not wars waged by the few. I can't stress enough how much this country's political stance and history has been misrepresented enough. As an Ethiopian, I truly appreciate your effort to research and present the history, demographics and background of Ethiopia for proper context, Thank You RLL.
Did you just mention that Ethiopians just killed 2 million of their citizens?
Objectively, youre not being misrepresented at all. Your government does awful things to its people and its neighbors all the time.
As people, we do
As government, can we say "we"? Does it represent us?
Ethiopia cant survive without conquering Eritrea. You are ignorant if you are against this.
@@JaKingScomez Ethiopia can survive without a sea outlet, Ethiopia will prosper more with it, but we'll still grow without it, just if we have a good leadership
Including the historical context in the beginning really helps with understanding the current situation. Well done.
As an Ethiopian more wars will only set us back, no need to turn our Eritrean siblings into enemies for an access to a port despite how much we need it, specially when its possible to get it done with an agreement in which both countries could benefit.
Eritrea sea belongs to mother Ethiopia. I am sure one day we will get it back without trouble
You will not, you will only make yourselves suffer. There is nothing like Eritrean patriotism. You are not our mother or anything. We remember you as a colonizer who oppressed us. We have much better memories about Italy, as they built and modernized Eritrea. Ethiopia did none of these things. Only steal and kill people.
Learn to create a patriotism that is healthy and doesn't offend other countries. That's when you will start seeing success and blessings from God. But Eritrea will not be part of it. @@th8me103
@@th8me103you can't be serious. No country ever will want to lose land peacefully.
They tried for an agreement by relinquishing claims to the land that was in dispute under the current president. This extremely generous offer was a goodwill gesture to get port access. Yet their pathetic slavemaster dictator wouldn't do it. The man needs to be disappeared, as in yesterday.
@@th8me103 check your facts. We ERITREAN respect the sovereignty of independent countries otherwise the whole tigray was part of the kingdoms that used to exist in modern-day ERITREA until the kingdom of MEDRE BAHRI. based on this fact can we claim tigray is ours?
other thing ERITREA is older than ethiopia when it comes to civilization and based on that you have to say ERITREA is the mother of ethiopia.
As an ex-Navy staff member that worked that Huge Antenna Farm at Asmara's Kagnew Station, it's very depressing to see these problems for a lovely people. If Eritrea provided Ethiopia access to Assab for half or less the cost of the Djibouti ports, it would be great for both countries, but that would require politicians with common sense, which is in short supply everywhere.
1 billion is nothing thats what djibouti is collecting from ethiopia annually
The problem is that you have to pay money If it's more You have Options like Right now Kenya and Ereteria and future Somalia But Ethiopia Doesn't wana to pay money abi ahmed clearly said We don't wna pay Money for Port he said Clear we will not be landlocked country that is enough You don't know The point Ethiopia Is lost already Abi ahmed Will Be Leading Ethiopia into destruction And Collapse soon
Look Rwanda 🇷🇼 one the best growing country in Africa uganda 🇺🇬 South sudan 🇸🇸 Burundi 🇧🇮 Congo 🇨🇩 all these Four countries Tney Use Mombasa Port Kenya 🇰🇪 with Payment and Respectful and They Are Very Intelligent Countries Becouse instead of Paying Billions every year they established East African Community was signed in Arusha Tanzania on 30 November 1999.
But ethiopian is Crzy country without Respect policy to its neighbors
Eritrea has granted free access without fees for Ethiopia for 7 years but Ethiopia refused choosing invasion in 1998 then diverted to Djibouti.
Even now Eritrea has mentioned it’s interests for Ethiopia to use of its ports but Ethiopia hasn’t asked for access since what it wants Is Ownership (Annexation)
@@HolaBruv Beginning to sound like the bribes have not been properly applied yet. Something like "I'll grant you a 99 Year lease to the port and I get to live in massive luxury for the rest of my life." Standard politics, unfortunately.
@@HolaBruv
That is true!
As an Armenian this kinda breaks my heart, although I can understand the situation. I just wish that our brothers and sisters in Ethiopia and Eritrea are able, maybe with help of international help to solve this problem via diplomacy instead of war. Believe me when I say that, if Ethiopia takes part of Eritrea by force this will only harden their hearts and end in generational trauma and hatred.
Dave as a Somali originally from Ogaden in Ethiopia, my heart has always been attached to Armenia and i have been supporting them in debates and online at least against Azerbaijan in Artsakh. The Somali region of Ogaden in Ethiopia has been given to haille sellasie as a gift just like Stanley gave Artsakh to Azerbaijan and they named it nagorno karabakh. So I say free Ogaden and free Artsakh and Stepanakat.
My dear Armenian , Just 2 yrs. ago we saved Ethiopia from disintegrating . Take it from me , they are no match to us Eritreans . This is a blabber . It will stay as one . when it comes to Eritrean sovereignty there is No Debate non what's so ever .
Problem is my brother! Ethiopia always resorts to violence against Eritrea. Ethiopians was using our port before, in fact for free, but then their ego made them change course and told us to let our camels drink in our ports. Decided to us dijoubti’s ports. We are tired of this nation honestly. If war this time, won’t be nice for Ethiopia considering its situation. It’s collapse is inevitable
Absolutely.This war news catches the media becasue of the immaturity of our prime minister Abiy.Instead of resolving the isssue through the diplomatic means with the Eritrean gov't, he brought the issue to the media.I think he was given an assignment from the west to provoke Eritrea.,a pro Russian power in east Africa.The result will be catastrophic.
Eritreans have already een traumatized and all they seek is vengeance idk but my whole family despise ethiopians (but we live in ethiopia)
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This video was better than I expected. I obsessively followed the tigray war while it was going on and wrote 2 research papers for school about it, and talked about it with my Ethiopian and Eritrean friends. You did a surprisingly good job explaining most aspects of the relevant parts of recent and ancient Ethiopian and Eritrean history without getting too many things wrong and oversimplifying much, which for such a short video I am very impressed with.
where did you find good information about the war, I watched like every time I remembered, but I never found more info than: it's still going.
This vid is like 3 Rick and Morty episodes in length if you cut out the credits.
@lordjjtheradiant1515 info on youtube was extremely sparse. Whenever I did see something here I watched it, but there wasn't much and it was rarely in depth. I mostly got info from news organizations, I relied on Al Jazeera more than I would've preferred since they are fairly biased, but their bias is pro-qatar so it shouldn't be too important for a conflict that doesn't involve qatar, but they covered it the most so I ended up using them a lot. I eventually started looking into Ethiopian news outlets, although it was hard to find that many that were in English, and as a non-Ethippian I had a hard time identifying all of the biases they probably had. It was easy enough to tell if they were pro TPLF or pro Abiy, but I'm sure there was more nuance I simply didn't notice. I did eventually notice that generally speaking, it was split between Tigrayans, Oromo, and anyone who favored decentralization on one side, and Amhara and anyone who favored centralization on the other side. This even applied to foreigners who focused on Ethiopia a lot. I remember reading papers by a Norweigan guy who clearly preferred decentralization, and despite being Norweigan so theoretically having no horse in the race, because he favored decentralization he portrayed Tograyans and Oromos positively and demonized Amhara.
@Karlach_ I know firsthand from trying to do presentations for papers that it's hard to make this topic short. I always had to cut out so much of what I found important, if I wanted to go into detail talking about even just the relevant history of Ethiopia and Eritrea leading up to the war I would probably take an hour or 2
“short video” its a 50 minute lecture on the subject 💀
To our Ethiopian brothers and sisters, I can appreciate that our governments don't necessarily represent our people. We have the same religion, culture and similar language. I wish you the best and hope our countries the best in the future. 🇪🇷❤🇪🇹
If anything happens I hope the Ethiopians will treat their Christian Eritrean brothers in accordance to the gospels of Jesus Christ.
@@oligultonnAmen ❤️
@@NoRockinMansLandYes. I am refering to the Tigray and Amhara. However, Eritrea is also very diverse. We are 50 chrisitan Orthodox tewahedo and 50 muslim
I have many friends who are Eritrean and some who are Ethiopian (I work in a weird industry haha). You're all wonderful people and here in Canada the violence of the past quickly fades fortunately. I wish you the best in whatever may come.
Respect bro 🙏🏼❤
As an Ethiopian, I feel shame as to why we still can’t stop the bloody war as long as there is a chance to negotiate around the table peacefully. After all, we are the same people who still enter marrying as we have the same culture and religion. This isn’t to happen between the same brothers and sisters. This is a curse for the country to have such a bloodbath for nothing except fulfilling the interests of power mongers.
I have a great appreciation for those who do the video documentaries in such excellent quality.
Deberían crear alianzas y confederaciones en lugar de divisiones y perjuicios. Etiopía necesita puertos soberanos
Establezcan leyes antiracismo y antidiscriminacion étnica y verán la unidad de Etiopía
Because you Ethiopians refused to wake up from your wet dream and accept the reality, we are ready to put the past behind and work with our neighbours. But you lot miss understand our showing love and took our kindness as a weakness
You are Ethiopian, but 🤷🏻♀️ still you don’t know Abiye Ahmed is real crazy !
@legesse what war are you repeating like a parrot? A statement regarding an outlet to sea was made by PM Abiye for discussion, the war drums are being drummed by the white boys who do not like peace and collaboration in Africa. Once again What War?
This is such a great way for an ignorant outsider to learn so much about the situation and the history-not only the video but the feedback and differing points of view of the Commenters. Thank you and good luck 🙏🏼
Ngl, this is like 85% spot on.
And I'm questioning myself on the 10% I disagree with / the 5 that just sounds off.
For such a messy history that's practically perfect. Wish there was more on the 93-02 years. Pretty much the stage being set for what we see today
Because this channel makes videos for Americans, you can see inaccuracies in almost all of the videos yet they are acceptable in general.
Like there is a video made by them about a potential invasion of Syria by Turkey, the channel tends to favour Kurds in that video since Kueds are their only ally in the region. Not the most accurate channel, just an introduction channel for ignorant Americans. @@FireeditsNow-jv8jf
You right what I don’t understand is those stupid TH-cam channels tell half truth history without researching facts, they are irresponsible and ignorant people.
@a and @d : Then see how you can promote other YT channels that are more accurate. The reality is, without oil, outsiders don’t care, and will ignore the wars and deaths in Africa over the conflicts in the ME.
we have connecting flight through Ethiopian airlines i was amaze how beautiful adis ababa the capital of Ethiopia, it changed my view about africa it so developed country,luv from the Philippines
You know, considering Egypt's opposition to the GERD and how RLL explained that it could start a war between Ethiopia and Egypt, combined with Egypt being an ally of the United States, there's a case to be made for Russia to want to help Ethiopia take control of Assab in exchange for being able to use the port.
Russia is an Eritrean ally.
@@andrewrogers3067 their relationship is almost non-existent. Ethiopia and Russia on the other hand have a long history of allyship.
@@andrewrogers3067 Allies change whenever it's convenient. The bigger issues here is whether Ethiopia needs Russia. Russia is in no shape to provide any help at the moment, Ethiopia probably have the military strength to take the port on their own, and allying with Russia might draw unwanted attention.
Africa's reliance on Russia is going to get you the worst version of colonization you've ever experienced. You think they're different, and you're right, just not different in the way that you want.
Egyptian here, there's absolutely no chance of a war over that dam. Our leaders have done absolutely nothing about it for over a decade, and it has already been fully built and partially filled. Also, we're preoccupied with wars in every single one of our neighboring countries, gaza, sudan, and Libya
I've travelled across the world and have never seen a place quite like Eritrea or people quite like the Eritreans. Gracious, kind, honest, beautiful. One thing they kept mentioning was that I should visit Addis some day, that the Ethiopians are their brothers. Shame on outside forces for playing these two against each other. We need to do everything we can to stop another conflict which will likely be disastrous for both.
This is the real world. Bad things happen.
Did you sleep with any of them? Might want to get checked . Blacks have triple the std rates
But Ethiopians don’t reciprocate as u have witnessed all they want is to annex Eritrea demographically erase them from the map. Have tried before 1952-1991 failed then in 1998-2000 failed and going for a hatrick soon it seems.
@@HolaBruv Yes, one can hardly blame the Eritreans for relying on a strong-arm guy like Afwerki. So do you think it is a waste to time to talk about Ethiopia getting access, by treaty perhaps, to Assab and Massawa? In the long run, I can't see Eritrea making advances without getting economic benefit from the geographic position of its ports, and that seems just about impossible without Ethiopian trade.
@@erikheymann9390 No bro we Eritreans actually for Ethiopia to start using our ports so we can economically benefit infact Eritrea has stated many times it will ask for much cheaper fees or in exchange for other stuff like electricity but the problem is that Ethiopia wants to annex lands not access.
What’s even worse until now
This nation begs us for our help when it needs us but turn against us once we save it from fragmentation
hopefully this time Isayas will finally embrace this unchanging fact about Ethiopia so that Isayas keeps his hand out of Ethiopia this time and watch Them proceed in whatever route they chose too.
Thanks!
real life lore is like that friend that always has bad news for you
you're like "so how is it going" dude: hey did you hear, our neighbor all died in a house fire, I can't get their screams out of my head
and you're like "jesus christ dude"
Sad to see this happen. I had the pleasure of visiting in 2015/16, spending some time in the Tigré region as well. Unfortunately I don't have the phone numbers anymore of the people I met there. Met some lovely people over in Lalibela that showed me around. Hope they're fine. First the uprisings around Konso/Karat and now Tigré, hope that Ethiopians caught in the crossfire are able to cope. መልካም ምኞት
Thank you for visiting Ethiopia
@@maximus13234 love Ethiopia man. I'm a ferenji who'd love to revisit. Most of my friends are in Hawasa now.
This war would Balkanize Ethiopia . The federal government cannot even exert its authority outside the capital city . Even if it somehow got all the rebel forces to work together, the stark difference in military prowess between the two countries is staggering . The assumption a country in danger of total fragmentation could invade Eritrea , a country that’s basically been working on its military since its birth is preposterous to say the least . This would set the whole region back a decade
If wishes were horses beggars would ride it. There is no way on earth Ethiopia would win these wars. Abey is deluded. The vast majority of Ethiopians already want to secede from that union that was created by the British colonialist after Menelik I sided with them. Oromo region, Somali region, Afar region and Gambella region all became part of Ethiopia after Menelik gave 20,000 soldiers to fight for the British cause in Horn of Africa. Oromo region, Somali region, Afar region and Tigray region will all try to secede, if Abey try this nonsense.
@@skyshooter4009 I wholeheartedly agree with you . Ethiopia is a country that was created with the help of outside forces as opposed to being created organically through a common shared identity
@@skyshooter4009 Dont say Ethiopia! If the Amharas are on the same page with Abiy, Isayas wouldn't survive for a week!! Luckily for the Eritreans, the Amharas aren't buying Abiy's war mongering and the Amhara youth is fighting him!
@@Daniel-dw4fc Funny how you talk about Abey war mongering and you think Tigrayans should be persecuted. Abey is a clown and most of you are blood thirsty. Ethiopia will forever remain landlocked and unstable. As a matter of fact every tribe should rule their own territory and secede from a vicious union that was recently created by European colonialists and their puppets.
@@Daniel-dw4fc You have massively underestimated Eritreans love for their country. They have paid dearly to get it back, and even if the 120 million of Ethiopians are soldiers, they might win battles, but they wouldn't win the war. You should refer to history when the whole Ethiopia supported by superpowers fought Eritrea, which culminated to the defeat of the biggest army in Africa. Eritreans are born to fight for their country. We don't rush to war, because we understand the price of it, but if an aggressor comes to our doorsteps, we wouldn't care who you are, or how big you are...
I lived on one of the many American military bases in and around Asmara in the 60's. At the time Asmara was a great place to live. Wonderful people ❤️
As American soldier from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit based in central Somalia this is very interesting topic hopefully Ethiopia does not invade Somalia where they would put us involved
Thanks to your corrupt leaders, Eritrea has paid heavy price to win against Ethiopian invaders.
Eritreans also look back on that time with nostalgia ❤ Hopefully relations with America will improve in the future. Both of our people deserve it.
@@pikapi6993 really? The communist derg was literally massacring Eritreans back then. Please stfu.
Everything was better in the 60s..
It takes an exceptional leader to pull off these kinds of risky geopolitical maneuvers. And judging from his past performance, Abiy Ahmed is no Bismarck.
Abiy is probably going to be killed in the future.
Not really. The eastern coastline is not very defendable. And there would be no major sanctions as long as it's framed as a liberation, given Eritrea's current situation and its relationship with Russia. As long as they build good enough defensive lines, the operation itself should be relatively trivial.
@@VVayVVard If war actually happens TPLF from Tigray is going to join in for 2 reasons. Revenge against Eritrea and so that TPLF Tigray can have access to the ocean and not be landlocked anymore.
The reason why Tigray lost the war against Ethiopia and Eritrea was because of a 360 all sides siege which is very easily done when its a landlocked territory.
It's not easy to landlock a territory that has access to the ocean.
As an Eritrean living in Ethiopia, I must say... what an absolutely spectacular video, hit the nail right on the head on pretty much all the topics, the history is accurate, the motives are accurate, and the sentiments are accurate.
Perhaps, one slight inaccuracy (which is something impossible to perceive without actually being on the ground) may have been the portrayal of the PM as an Ethiopian nationalist... While this is how he portrays himself and while it is what pretty much everybody, including myself, thought him to be in 2018; his actions seem to indicate otherwise, by that I mean: the restructuring of his entire leadership demographics to lean HEAVILY towards the Oromo ethnic group, outside of obvious blunders like appointing the leader of the Amhara region (on paper) to be someone who can barely speak the language, it's quite noticeable across all government offices and public institutions throughout the capital. To make matters worse, this ethnic based redistribution of public positions is inevitably followed by an EXTREMELY evident selective behavior towards the public looking to receive government services with Afan Oromo speakers having clear favor, which honestly is exactly what was happening before when other ethnic groups rose to power, though perhaps not as much in the open. Anyway, this behavior by the PM and his associates has led to the ostracization of his prosperity party, by pretty much all the ethnic regions, including the Oromia region who, rather ironically, sees the PM's actions as not being severe enough...... and I'm now realizing this comment is a lot longer than it ever needed to be.
Anyway, great video, love what you and the guys from Wendover are doing at Nebula. Keep up the good work.
Tgraway libi tgrayyyy can not beat us donkeys
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Abiy is indeed nationalist. The only two regions that hate abiy are tigray and Amhara. He is still pretty much powerful.
@@Bahgi_ you must a dumb for think Ethiopia is just those two regions.
@@Bahgi_facts
Interesting episode. Please make an episode about Sudan and the war going on.
I was stationed in Asmara Eritrea at Kagnew Station (4th USASA Field Station) in 1962-63. One of the most incredible US Army bases. From the only CinimaScope theater to Miniature Golf course in Africa. We (Americans) were treated very well by the Eritreans. The insurgency did not affect the Americans initially, but the U.S. did not support a separate Eritrea and that affected how the insurgency groups started seeing the U.S. as part of the problem preventing Eritrean independence or at least following (mandating) the UN resolution for federation with Ethiopia. One problem not usually mentioned was the initial independence groups were supported by both Russia and China who gave weapons, training and money. Remember the Ethiopian government tried to dismantle the Eritrean language, political system and absorb any thoughts of independence as a people and state. As for a war being inevitable between Eritrea and Ethiopia, I agree that it is a great possibility almost a “Manifest Destiny” for both countries.
I’ve been to what remains of Kagnew it’s sad because the US and Eritrea could have been strong allies if it was not for Dulles and the US position on Eritrean self determination.
US made and is still doing a strategic mistake by supporting anti-eritrean self determination it’s funny though to see them supporting ISRAEL against Arab nations even though it was big vs small and in eritrea ethiopia case was the same.
I too am a navy seal, 15th eagle division. I took out obama bin salmon.
Why didn't they fight against their colonizers Italy and England if they saw America as insurgents? Their movement for independence came after Ethiopia became a socialist country, which upset the USA. However, the USA made a big mistake by causing Ethiopia to shift sides during the war with Somalia. The USA held military ammunition that Ethiopia had bought from them, leaving Ethiopia with no choice but to seek aid from Russia. This led to Ethiopia becoming a socialist country at that time, which angered the USA. As a result, the USA and its allies supported rebel groups to fight against the regime, including the Eritrean independence movement. That's why, my friend.
@@HolaBruv what is "eritrean self determination"?
I sincerely hope the twoo nations can figure out a better way of resolving their dispute without going to war. As a Nigerian, I am aware that outside counties are always looking for way to exploit Africans , we must not give them the chance to do that.
Africans exploit other Africans. That's how things have been
didn't u hear 1/5 of Ethiopian population lives off aid from foreign nations and organizations. Poor people but what do you think it would happen if that stopped smartass? People dying all over the place of hunger and diseases.
Ew no. Eritrean leader is extremely oppressive and a dictator that forces its civilians as slaves. They have only 8 million people yet are the most in representation of refugees
Ok my man you are trying to stop the inevitable. Let’s think about this, your continent has 5 regional geographic areas right?. But also has tooooo many tribes, ethnics languages, dialects and……….. so the fuel ⛽️ is there, only need the flame. The real fats are there. Why do you have those mega populations like Asian countries?. Those millions and millions of illiteracy people are a big treat to any government. That’s a big concern watching how your countries are competing each other for having more populations.
Eric I have to thanks you for this. After reading you comment and others and others and watching this video about Africa Horns my mind went back when I was a child. I’m Cuban and I remember long ago (70’s)seeing to the Ethiopian president passing close to my house in the Fidel’s caravans in his visit to Cuba. Rapidly started to find information about the Ogaden War and why Cuba and the Soviet Union wanted that African region. I love History and Geopolitics and that’s why without knowing the very beginning of the conflict that the people MOST TO EDUCATE.
Peace ☮️
Please consider talking about Venezuela's apparent desire to take over 2/3rds of Guyana's territory. Awesome videos as always by the way🎉❤
By the way, it is not a “desire to take Guyana’s territory”. It is Venezuela’s. Just because Venezuela is ruled by a dictator does not mean that Venezuela’s claim is not legitimate.
What is a Guyana?
@@Luitschez fair opinion, I said "desire" as they are seemingly taking action to claim that land, regardless of who is there now... Venezuelans are not; so they intend to claim it. I am aware of the historical context, and we must keep watching how things unravel.
@@ThwipThwipBoom South American country neighboring Venezuela
@@Luitschez Say "it's Venezuelas" is way too categorical statement. There is no clear agreement or historical background that would indicate that it simply is Venezuelas.
It's a very complicated matter with a bunch of treaties, border agreements and disagreements going back hundreds of years between different colonial powers (Britain, Spain, Netherlands), way before Venezuela or Guyana existed as countries.
I’m Ethiopian and Eritrean we are brothers not enemies
You were both on the same side thanks to Mussolini
@@stefano8936What does this even mean
@@stefano8936 blud mussolini occupied Eritrean and Try to capture Ethiopian
@@BeryAb in 1941 or 1942 i belive that the italians had eritrea and ethiopia as their colonies
kinda like Ukraine and Russia are brothers? and Thaiwan and China? North Korea and South Korea. Brothers fight the most
incredible, imagine the wikipedia rabbitholes you would have to go down to understand this conflict. I had to watch the Y So Many Bases In Djibouti episode first as preface and have basically spent 10% of my day so far on this even with the deft summarization.
i live in somalia right now and i am sure it isnt good for the region that Ethopia wants to invade eriteria , i hope abiy holds his peace prize to its core
that peace prize went to shit almost immediately after he received it with the Tigray war and now the Amhara war
They should’ve never gave him that peace prize, Abiy clearly showed everyone he doesn’t give a damn about it.
sooner or later this problem will have to be resolved. If the African continent wanted to avoid war, they could agree to an exchange of territory between Eritrea and Ethiopia. it is an immutable fact. When diplomacy proves insufficient, war becomes extremely necessary.
Sadly, Muhammadans love invading Christendom and I think Abiiiy wants to invade to look strong.
Lmao, his nobel peace prize is such an insult to peace itself and a fucking embarassing thing that i would call for a removal of the nobel peace prize for this guy, like they remove him from the list
I believe the LAPSSET project in Kenya would be an important solution to open both Ethiopia and South Sudan to a viable sea port. This would give Ethiopia an alternative port to exploit, and it would therefore provide a stronger bargaining power for the country. I'm sure this would prove to be the turning point for the country.
well Ethiopia is not intrested in trade but rather wants to own and occupy neighbouring country
@@suppernova1184- They might want to occupy their neighbor, but I'm pretty sure they also want a port for purposes of trade -- why wouldn't they?
Ethiopia doesn’t have any port problems the government of Eritrea gives them to use freely but ethiopia asks ownership a damaged country puppet of western ethnic conflicts omg
No
@@suppernova1184 Historically that land seems to be theirs...
This videoneeds to be updated given the current breaking news of Ethiopia's deal to recognize Somaliland in exchange for access to the red sea
Their is no such thing as somaliland so I actually ur the one that needs to be updated 🤦 Ethiopia needs to stop trying to divide the Somali people and focuse on ur internal conflicts just a little advise💯🇸🇴Ethiopia will not get any access to the sea as long as their is even one Somali person still living wake up from the dream already 🥴✌🏻
@@mohamedhassan3983 Not gonna lie, a Somali telling anyone to focus on their internal issues is actually hilarious.
@@urgadurgawe are focused on our own issues so why shouldn’t the Ethiopians who have had a worse war in the past 5 years then Somalia
@@urgadurga😂😂are you dreaming still
nice, I was almost half way through the video, with multiple countries going to war and all kinds of horrible shit happening, and I was like "surely it can't get any worse than this" and next sentence my boy real life lore is like "and an apocalyptic famine broke loose"
Yes that’s the infamous famine that inspired the “We Are the World” music video
Average day in -Chinese- -European-human history before 1900
@@TheLocalLtAnd the British song "Do They Know It's Christmas", which was released before "We Are The World" was.
@@mariakelly90210 yes indeed, when the west actually had confidence in itself…
thank you real life lore for bringing us even more horrible news
Reality is often disappointing..
TH-cam is slowly becoming a warmongering machine.
😂😂😂
Don't hit the messenger, man. He is not guilty for bringing these news: this is how things are going in the world nowadays.
Hard out 😂
I can only imagine the amount of research that went in to this video.
Thank you for all your efforts.
Are you kidding me?! It's a rehash of prejudiced nonsense about Africa. The author of the script has clearly never lived in Ethiopia and seen how the ethnic groups interact as individuals.
Bruh none of his videos contain any valuable infos about anything. Just a bunch of stereotypes and general knowledges on google. No educated conclusion, everything is "may happen soon", check out his B.S videos on Russia and China about to collapse
@@rasmussonderriis make that video
Wishing you peace and progress
The only solution here is for Ethiopia and Eritrea to join the East African Community, which will then make rivalries irrelevant as the EAC trades as a single block. Somalia just joined two weeks ago.
Yes reunite through diplomacy
Somalia joined but aren’t fully integrated… kind of like South Sudan.
So Somalia is a observer member?
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@@mujanayi64I doubt that even Kenya airways will start soon weekly flights from Nairobi to Mogadishu
It is good idea. Uniting to the EAC to get free trade and others advantages with the member countries is the good solution for both countries.
Bro, that was satisfying! Thank you for your time and research!
“It was great, you get to see people turn into animals and your close friends die.” Niko Bellic
This video is really eye-opening. I didn't know about the tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Thanks for explaining this complex situation so clearly!
Phenomenal video. Don't underatand why, despite being subscribed to you, TH-cam doesn't recommend your video to me when you upload. Had to search for your channel to come across this video. Kept me engaged for 50 minutes straight, seriously fantastic quality
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An over 100 yrs history within half an hour. Wonderful, to the point and factual!
“ factual” he added.🤣🤣
It’s not factual, it’s bias.
@@relaxandslumber970there was no bias
@@benpuljak2304 It was bias. He doesn’t know the full history nor do you. Obviously he didn’t do a thorough research of both countries’ history.
It's not fully accurate, though.
1 fact is: Eritrea has never voluntarily been 1 country with Ethiopia. Many emperors tried to get access to the red sea, but failed, including Emperor Yohannes and Emperor Fasilidas.
I'm saying this because you said "..over 100 years.."
I suspect Ethiopia will learn to its regret that it is a whole lot cheaper to pay for port access than to try to take it by force.
they know this already. Abiy is building a useless presidential palace that costs more than the White house. They know. This is about prestige.
Well, one is a one time payment, the other is an annual payment to an effective Monopoly. They have strong incentives to take military actions. If Eritrea were smart, they should try to get the Russian navy to come. Or they need to dismantle the port to make it less appealing to take. But in either case: they seem not to be interested in offering acceptable harbor fees for a harbor no one else uses and they didn't build up themselves.
Russia will help Ethiopia! They sell tanks to Ethiopia! 🇪🇹❤️🇷🇺
@@chaosXP3RT Russia couldn’t help
Armenia and it’s a lot closer to Russia than Ethiopia.
it's not a one time payment. Eritrean patriots will never give up, as their ancestors fought many decades, form the 50s-90s just to be free.
Abiy is trying to end like Haile Selassie. He might even lead his country to a future that Jugoslavia suffered. Fano might use the war to take him down. There is no internal unity in Ethiopia. There is internal unity in Eritrea. @@trillionbones89
Thank you for making this video
Firstly,thank you author RealLifeLore for this detailed history of that region.I would recommend to Eritreya to simply build highway 3 lanes from that port to Ethiopia and grant access to it,and seek some billions from Ethiopia as a compensation for it.
How many billions? 10 Billion USD every single year? At that point it becomes cheaper to put that 10 billion USD into the military and take the port
@@Xenomorph-hb4zfBolivia has access to the ocean thanks to Chile. They should just copy & paste.
Eritrea never refused providing sea access, Eritrea is seeking fair trade deal however your leaders want to use our port for free or unfair deal. We Eritrean are asking for deal based on international law but your PM has refused.
@@yousufaman1738one way or another we are getting our port back and you can't do a thing about it
@@yousufaman1738It was never yours but say what you want😂
Ethiopia can use Kenyan, Djibouti, Somali, Sudani and Eritrean ports. All these countries have been competing for Ethiopian customers. First, Abiy Ahmed wants to divert Ethiopian domestic problems. Secondly, Ethiopian wants to expand its territory like Russia and China is doing. I know for certain, If Ethiopia tries to invade Eritrea they will loose terribly and that will be the end of Ethiopia.
It is unacceptable Ethiopia to be a land locked country even Atlantic ocean used called Ethiopic ocean Historical fact.
@@the_abused666 It was a landlocked country for the last 500 years. You need to accept your place.
@@the_abused666Ethiopia has Always been Landlocked thats fact and History they got Access only after Eritrea federated with Ethiopia
@@queentanya3787 I don't see any one with alphabet and letters in Africa, which Ethiopia you talking about? Is that the one identified by your history tellers? Unacceptable.
@@the_abused666 Eritrea has it’s own alphabet Geez
I'm always impressed by the locals' reactions to these videos.
These are hands-down the best TH-cam videos on geopolitics bar none. Wow. And I just learned that the author is a fellow Texan.
Does Ethiopia take into consideration that any port it somehow managed to gain would take quite some time to come online especially considering sanctions going in but the fact that the Djibouti port or rail could simply be shut? I mean its not like 8 military powers are sitting right next to it thus crippling its export/import capabilities.
Although, it helps that Eritrea is basically a Totalitarian Dictatorship that is extremely isolated.
I doubte that Djibouti would just stand by while it looses 25% of is gdp.
Eritrea is called the North Korea of Africa (for good reason) they have a slave army do you really think nations will sanction Ethiopia for taking him down?
Lol are you naive? If the war is quick, as it would suggest given Eteopias big population, no western government would intervene. There is plenty going on far more important places political right now.
@@robikin4563What's Djibouti gonna do? Its military only has 20k soldiers
Just finished my geography college class and have a new found appreciation for this study. As a kid, I thought it was boring but now it’s mixing pot of either wars or ancient conflicts that are leading to wars
My grandparents on my mothers side immigrated from Eritrea to Germany as war refugee's in the 70's to escape this conflict. At the time, Germany was still making reparations to improve its international image on the world stage following ww2, so they took in many war refugee families & also many people from Türkiye, etc., as Germany also needed many people to rebuild its economy + infrastructure.. not to mention that Germany was literally still split into two countries; the Allied NATO nations put a lot of pressure on West Germany and its economy to rebuild as quickly as possible, compared to the Soviet controlled East Germany counterpart of the Cold War era. My mother grew up in West Germany & met my father who was an American servicemember stationed in Germany through the Army in the late 90's - early 00's. I just separated from active duty Air Force myself 2 years ago.. just wanted to provide you some context as to how these types of conflicts can deeply impact families. Keep using that TA & try to commission if you can (or GI Bill if you're out already). Good luck & Aim High.
AmeriKKKa is behind this
As always a great summary of the past and a glimpse in the future. Thank you!
Are you allowed to use the Civilisation Icons? Maybe its fair use, I'm just curious
why is the issue here Eritrean ports has been free for Ethiopia use since 1991 unfortunately the leader of Ethiopia using Eritrean port was more beneficial to Eritrea's growth for that reason he has decided to used Djibouti port it's Ethiopian fault not to blame Eritreans...
I pray for peace in East Africa from Nigeria! I understand the conflicts are complicated, and Western powers meddling in our affairs do not help. Hopefully, one day, we can free ourselves!
Always blaming the west because you won’t take accountability for your own backwards culture. Never fails.
We all want peace but Assab belongs to Ethiopia
@@betootaadvocate1966 No it doesn't.
@@betootaadvocate1966you can claim but you need the balls to take over it. Come and take.
western powers meddling is a benefit, not the opposite.
As a American born man with parents who are Somali I understand where Ethiopia is coming from but I really hope there isn’t any war and all countries involved come to a peaceful agreement that’s beneficial to all parties
Thanks abiy ahmed, pm of Ethiopia... being a muslim, you are attacking muslims of another nation...what a unity
lmao you dont understand shit just because your parents are from a totally different country that whats being discussed here
@@hiroshigozhaimashda9304 Abiy is not Muslim, he's a protestant Christian, his party is called "Prosperity Party"
He's from a Muslim Oromo father and Orthodox Amhara mother, and he's a protestant, his wife is an orthodox Christian from Gondar, Amhara too, what a confusing diversity! I wonder what his children would consider themselves. Such a relationship causes irreligious children most of the time
@@Omer1996E.C lol 😂😂
Realty says otherwise
Excellent overview of this volatile situation!
Thank you guys for another informative update episode. I remember following the civil war not long ago. I'm sorry to see things are still looking potentially violent and tumultuous over there. Hopefully the people will have peace soon.
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
Juste looking 1second the geography to understand why they want the lands.
@@jh4225 Wanting someone else land does not give you the right to invade . If they do invade , Eritrea that saved them 2 years ago will show us what it will do ! ethiopia is not even stable as a nation , let alone invade .
Your videos and topics are so well done and put together... I'm watching videos about topics I typically wouldn't pay attention to... simply because you make the topics interesting and educational. Well done...and please keep it up.
I appreciate the effort went to into making this video, it's immensely informative and educating, even though I'm from this region, both from Somalia and Ethiopia, this is really eye opening unfolding, but one country to capture another country by force is deplorable act, but the information provided here is priceless.
All countries are formed and maintained by force. You can't escape this brute fact of the world. If Ethiopia can't gain access to the sea by diplomacy, they can go for it by force with those kind of numbers.
@@JoBlakeLisbon too bad they wont win .they lost 2 wars
Reminds me of Venezuela preparing to invade Guyana and annex it's land.
@@bradleywelch9290 Why does Ethiopia prepare for War?
Is not insult ?!
@@JoBlakeLisbonEthiopia boarders were created by British colonialist. European colonialist couldn't give them access to the sea, how on earth do you think impoverished Ethiopia can acquire access and then held on to it? The vast majority of Ethiopia are already trying to secede from a union that was forced upon them. This is just a deluded dream that will never happen. The smallest region in Ethiopia almost destroyed them completely. Invading a foreign country will make it crumble.
Janoš I agree with you 💯🙏.. excellent video... Odlično 💯
Very well done video. Gotta love the attention RLL is giving to Ethiopia. This is our second video in 2 years!
I had an eritrean housemate, one time another roommate and I were talking about how our deadbeat dads are pieces of shit and this guy said "Idk my dad he died in the war" and got really quiet and very sad, another roommate walked in later and even he noticed he was very sad but he said he was okay, it made us feel bad about complaining abt our 1st world problems..He used to wake up screaming at night too, war is terrible and has lasting effects on ppl! Hope he's doing better now.😢
Exactly stop complaining. Folks have it way worse and make it
It is the horror of killings and horror that he had experienced under Ethiopian regime.
Both can be true simultaneously
As a french, I'm not in a position to give any lesson.
Yet I hope Ethiopians and Erythreans will find a way to solve this issue peacefully.
War is always the worst thing that can happen, and given enough motivation, humans from any given country are the fiercest fighters.
World need more people like you
@@SamuelEye1988 NO !! Not a french !
Eritreans never wanted war. It is imposed on us. Unfortunately, Ethiopia is always an ally of the US, and takes instructions as such. It needs political independence but aid and loans are preconditions for Ethiopia to fight its neighbors all the time
Watching from Ethiopia🇪🇹
Stop the war!!!
As always, we love your all the work you do and productions you make. Please, please though, could you make the text in your color coded description boxes a wee bit larger? Even when zooming in on the mobile phone screen it's still a rough time making out what the text contained says. So please, in future vids which we are most eager to keep watching, make the text just a font size or two larger. That would really help us old with fading eyes geezers out. Thank you so much!
Everyone is thinking the same thing. "Quick, all the major arms exporters and military juggernauts are distracted! Let's start all the wars we fantasized about!"
The problem of starting a war when the big boys are distracted by their own wars is where are you going to buy your ammo and replacement weapons from? If the USA is committed to arming and supplying Israel and Ukraine and Russia has no guns and ammo to spare and therefore the prices of weapons and ammo has gone through the roof then you could find yourself in a very hard place in a few months when your army has run out of tank ammo and your solders just don't have the supplies necessary to continue the campaign..
As a Nigerian 🇳🇬. I have always been interested in knowing more about east Africa. They seem to be quite but I didn’t know that silence is due to years of unwarranted bloody wars, they seem to be very tired and stressed (who wouldn’t). We seem to have the same issues in Nigeria caused by external interference... they really destroyed Africa, but just like all of history, there’s a time for war and a time for peace. Noting last forever.
Eritrea's troubles has nothing to do with the conspiracy of the West or whatever. It has everything to do with the communist tyrant that is ruling it autocratically through mass military enslavement of the youth and material impoverishment of the populace.
That's ridiculous because Somali Pirates will fight each other until the end of time
Yeah, we don't hear much about East Africa
@opanugatobi1131 As an African-American (Ethiopian mixed with some West African), Gaddafi was right, we need a united Africa. What does that mean exactly? One money, One military, One coast. Only then, us 42,000,000 African Americans (and the bright African minds who recently left Africa seeking stability) will return and the rest is history. I don't know if mirroring the governments of Africa with the EU will be a success... all I know is that the borders drawn by foreign nations which were enforced by conquest, colonization, and abduction will not stand the test of time. There's only two directions to go, more separation into smaller countries/regions/states, or the formation of larger nations/empires/kingdoms. Only time will tell, but we are certainly heading towards stability and I'm all for it.
@@wediofla3230 TPLF Tigray is going to join in on a war against Eritrea if it happens for revenge and so that Tigray can no longer be landlocked.
Thanks for your research based analysis about Ethiopia.
37:46 community note here :abiy didn't wage war agianst tigray in novemeber 2020 but it was response to tplf(tigray governing party )attack on the ethiopian national defense forces that strated the war in novemeber4,2020 which lasted for 2 years
don't lie. Abyi invaded Trigray and committed genocide with the help of The Amhara regional forces and the tyrant Issayas . I should know, I am Eritrean.
As a Somali watching this im not surprised. We all know that before colonialism arrived we had no borders, instead we had differences in religion and culture. In the Berlin Africa conference, Amhara king Menelik asked for the Somali region of Ogaden to be given to him, in which they did. Italy kept Eritrea. If Ethiopia go to war this that will be the end as a country.
The end will going crazy and Ethiopia itself bring new 2..3 new nations.amhara ,tugray ,oromo etc.
It’s just going to balkanize
Cry
Haha your funny , Ogaden is somalia and Djibouti is Ethiopian and Eritrea is Ethiopian
@@rebbybam230 Djibouti is Somali. 80 percent of Djibouti is Somali
Ethiopia invading Eritrea will be its biggest strategic blunder in its history. It will likely result in balkanisation of the modern Ethiopian state. Egypt will love this because of the Gerd so will both factions in Sudan. Somalia and Somalis in the Ogaden are waiting for an opportunity to reunite with their kin. All in all Ethiopia is finished if they go through with this. Far too many nations will support Eritrea to win for their own benefit and will consequently fund them. Also major global powers are far too distracted with their own issues to save Ethiopia from collapse. Not to mention the many Ethiopian ethnic groups that want self determination.
didn't people say the same thing when Ethiopia was building their dam against everyone's wishes? lol the US even cut $100M aid to Ethiopia over that dispute back in 2020... yet, three years later the dam is fully built, filled, and the US is back to providing aid to Ethiopia like nothing ever happened.
People said the exact same thing during the Tigray war and it never ended up happening
Your dream isnt going to happen. everyone said the thing about the dam nothing happened. everyone said the about the civil war nothing happened.
@@user-uq6pd1nv1j an internal infrastructure project isn’t the same as invading a sovereign state. False equivalence
@@Xenomorph-hb4zf a civil war isn’t the same as invading a sovereign state
Forgot to mention that Egypt is supporting Tigray with weapons and will prevent Ethiopia from invading Eritrea as it's promising protection to ships coming from Suez.
This video was stress full, but I loved it. I hope you make more videos delving into more regional histories like this one!
Those people be breading like rats
I remember being in Ethiopia when he was swan into office. Back in 2018 the Ethiopians were extremely excited about tge power changes away from the tygray based government that had been in power since 1993. Dr Abby had been a great diplomat and the first person in Ethiopias history with a college degree in leadership. Now in 2023, Dr Abby looks like every other Ethiopian head of state prior to the tygray government.
Which college?
No, it was former Prime Minister haile Mariam who has an official college phd not Abiy. Abiy is a scam.
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Hate him or love him non of them equate with Meles Zenaw when it comes to brain. Its him who laid a good foundation, universities, roads..... he has done more for Ethiopia than any other, (the federal had its own problem but then again the regions do to)
This new one just want to make things look pretty on the outside, its like he is trying to build the tallest skyscraper with no sewer,
@@mehreteabsaelu7599 Maybe Klaus Schwab's 'young world leaders college'?
We spilled enough blood of each other in both side of border our moms deserve a moments of peace and reflect. Nothing worth spilling a drop of our Ethiopian brothers and sisters on behalf of A.Ahmed or A.Afewerki .
We will work out to solve all our issues in a civil and peaceful way .we can't change the past but,absolutely we can change the future
Well done RRL, you nailed it as always!
As an Ethiopian, I'm beyond infuriated and exhausted by this development. The Tigray war already cost us so much, and the wounds will never heal. Now our so-called 'leader' thinks starting another war is brilliant - what an idiot! Families, mine included, can't recover from the first disaster, and he's trying to drag us into another one.
Ethiopia needs a port, sure...but through more bloodshed, not a chance! Life is already a living hell here - the economy is in ruins, inflation breathtaking, meanwhile extravagant expenditures still continue. It's heartbreaking💔 and many of us are plotting our escape from this nightmare.
It's totally bad. How can Eritrea take over the whole of the coastline mend for Ethiopia. Eritrea should stop pettiness and hand over assab to the people of Ethiopia to benefit.
Banda, ante Ethiopawi adelehim. Ertrawi mehon alebih, anay ye Abiy degafi adelewm gin Ethiopia wedeb yasfelegatal. Eritrea ye Ethiopia gitazt new.
Ethiopia already on ethnic conflict there is no any force
@@DebelaAsefa-x7k Fano will take the coast
@@wanyonyirobert273530 years of war to give back to the aggressor nation? No
Once you've invested in military projection as a form of getting what you want, you're incentivized to see all of your obstacles as targets, and resolution of problems as kills.
When all you have is a hammer...
@@sosukelele... Every problem looks like a nail.
Well I dont see the dictator in Eritrea negotiating land
the PM of Ethiopia initially insisted on peaceful talks with the other countries, none were interested. he then offered them shares in the two biggest projects related to Ethiopia (Ethiopian Airlines and the GERD) in exchange for port access but again, they rejected. this unfortunately leaves war as the only option.
your PM is greedy , ofcourse they will reject these stupid offers@@user-uq6pd1nv1j
I am really impressed how much research and effort you have put in this video. Great job
You thought that because you don't know all he presented was a campaign not facts. Ask any Eastern Africans such as Somalis, Eritreans, Sudanese and Djibouti and you will learn
What he is propagating is mere bullshit! Don't trust this bloodshed person. I think he is thirsty to consume the blood of innocent people by creating a bullshit narration.
its full of nonsense, dude leaves out crucial context and makes so many wrong points. I don't even know where to start. This is infuriating.
Like what?@@orwellianyoutube8978
What an informative video👍
I like the way you present your videos.... simple, informative. I wish the world would see these. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I appreciate getting to hear about this. The entire history of it all.
Hot take: Those contries that seem drawn on the map only so that some other country DOESN'T get access to a sea or some valuable ressource should not exist. They are so patently there for colonial interests, It's just ridiculous. Work a reunification or something.
It reminds me a lot of Iraq and Kuwait tbh
Only over our dead bodies. Eritrea is one of the most isolated countries because our government rejects "aid" with ulterior motives. It is the only African country that never played the corrupt geopolitical game, which in Africa's case is 'bribe the politicians and get the resources for cheap'.
Ethiopia is one of the countries that is very notorious for playing this game, as they receive Billions of Aid money, but instead of helping people who are starving, they build 10 Billion dollar presidential palaces and make their politicians rich. If you had watched the video, you would have noticed that. The only reason why Eritrea wasn't independent earlier is because America wanted Ethiopia as their ally against Russia. So they let Ethiopia colonize us and ban our languages.
Eritrean patriotism is real and more genuine than patriotism in most countries, because the people who fought and died for us to be free are alive. We have no one but ourselves to stand with us. No one helped Eritrea to win and become independent. The Western countries ignored our suffering (most ordinary people in the West didn't even know that it was happening) and Russia sponsored Ethiopia after the communists overthrew Haile Selassie. Eritrea only exist because the love of its 9 ethnic groups for one another and their will to fight their enemies together. There are zero tribal conflicts in Eritrea, unlike in Ethiopia where all ethnic groups hate each other enough to kill each other on a regular basis. Yet their governments are always seeking imperialist and colonialist goals instead of caring about their own people. And Eritreans will not let them have their way.
This might have worked out after the nobel peace prize and a decade or two of good or at least non-belligerently grumpy relations (and probably a political change in Eritrea). I think the ship for a peaceful reunification has sailed for a while now.
And even non-peaceful, this land grab is honest but a bad idea on so many levels...
You have it the wrong way round, Go look at an ethnic map of east Africa and you’ll see Ethiopia has far more land than it should anyway. Their biggest state is almost exclusively inhabited by Somalis but they won’t allow them to reunite with their kin. They created some bs artificial triangle border thanks to the British.
Maybe I got my phrasing wrong in a needlessly infamatory way. I agree that no nation of people should be part of a state they.. well, don't want to belong to. But some details in the drawing of certain borders are ridculous. Say Eritreans for real don't want to be merged into Ethiopia for identity, culture, history, pride whatever. That's perfectly fine. But who could tell me they can't possible remit a small strip to either side so that that both countries can have access to the sea? Is every square meter of that land densely inhabited by enthusiastically nationalistic Eritreans? I seriously doubt it. I'm from South America and this happens here too. Bolivia is landlocked and they've been continuously requesting an opening to the sea for more than a century, with both Chile and Peru either oppossing or dragging their feet.
Further south in my own country, Argentina and Chile's southern borders have been drawn just so either country doesn't get access to both the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. It's moroninc that us empoverished countries are blocking and shafting each other in order to get a cut of taxes from each other's dire needs instead of building each other up into a wealthy region. It's dumb, but it seems every petty kingdom when having the chance to take a few pennies from the unfortunatedly circumstance of their own sister-nation will do it without a second thought. It's dumb, it's evil and it should end. All countries should be arranged to maximize their needs, self-sufficiency and potential.
As a somali, it's sad that the soviet betrayed us, ogaden have been cut short of food and that has caused a famine because of a state that simply dont care about them. It's simply a prison for somalis in ethiopia. The war that was lost did cause the civil war, and has lost countless of people because of that, i wish my home country, can simply return back to stability and a golden age.
ogaden 🇪🇹🇪🇹💪🏾 siad barre ecaped😂
In 1977 I fought for Ethiopia as part of the Cuban brigades that supported them. I have good memories of the country and its people👍
As American soldier from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit based in central Somalia this is very interesting topic hopefully Ethiopia does not invade Somalia where they would put us involved
Thank you, sir! Much love!
@senaitasefa5259 wait aren’t Ogaden Somalis? They should have referendum to join Somalia if they want
Cuba is not independent tho u guys are part do the United States 🇺🇸
@@lijmamo475 thank you for what? Somali region should join Somalia they share nothing with Ethiopia
I love your content Joe, I really do. I've learned so much from your videos and these modern conflicts are extremely interesting. But sometimes I miss videos asking how big a hole we can dig. 😂
Seriously 😂
"How many Skittles can you fit in your mouth at once?"
His name is Joe?
@@carinaslima Yep... Joseph Pisenti
@@carinaslima Joe Mama
Half of my brain: " This is depressing and anxiety-inducing. The last thing humanity needs - the last thing the planet needs - is yet another war."
The other half: "Ji-BOOTY! Hehehehe."
A very proper and professionally evaluated proposal ,thank you so much!
Love Ethiopia from the Netherlands. I hope they can keep the peace.
It fully depends on their government. They have the luxury that their neighbours don't want war at all.
If Ethiopia takes Eritrea then no more Eritrean refugees in Europe. They can be sent back to the safe unified Ethiopia 🎉
@@Tribuneoftheplebsexactly, everyone will support this
Tigray agames wish, keep dreaming
@@RahimE.Terek-Raba nobody wants that totalitarian dictatorship
ethiopia is one of the most interesting countries. very fascinating history
Its not, they literally stole that name, Aethiopia was name of African continent specially Sudan/Chad. the current Aethiopian country was much smaller and was known as Habash or Abyssinia, go and search about that name. The colonials specially British empire helped them annex more territories and people that are not Abyssinians that country shady genocides/ ethnic cleansing happen every day because they share nothing with each other its basically a fake country
@@thisguy2372cringe
@@thisguy2372 Chill man, your words show you have no knowledge.
Horn of Africa and its current issues. 😊
The Horn of Africa is a region that consists of four countries: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Djibouti. It is also home to various ethnic, religious, and political groups, such as the Amhara, the Oromo, the Tigray, the Afar, the Somali, the Harari, the Sidama, the Tigre, the Kunama, the Saho, the Rashaida, the Beja, the Nubian, the Coptic, the Muslim, the Christian, the Orthodox, the Protestant, the Catholic, the TPLF, the EPRDF, the PP, the ONLF, the SLF, the SNM, the SSDF, the ARS, the ICU, the ASWJ, the al-Shabaab, the AMISOM, the IGAD, the AU, and many others .
The Horn of Africa is a region that faces many challenges and opportunities, such as poverty, famine, drought, conflict, violence, terrorism, piracy, human rights, democracy, governance, development, trade, investment, migration, refugees, peace, security, cooperation, integration, and regionalism .
The Horn of Africa is a region that has a rich and diverse culture and history, such as the ancient kingdoms of Aksum, D’mt, Kush, Meroë, Punt, and Saba, the medieval states of Adal, Ifat, Shewa, Medri Bahri, and Aussa, the modern empires of Ethiopia and Somalia, the colonial era of Italy, France, and Britain, the independence movements of Eritrea and Djibouti, the revolutions of Ethiopia and Somalia, the civil wars of Ethiopia and Somalia, the border wars of Ethiopia and Eritrea, the peace processes of Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the federalism of Ethiopia and Somalia .
The Horn of Africa is a region that has a lot of potential and promise, as it is endowed with natural resources, such as water, land, minerals, oil, gas, livestock, and fish, as well as human resources, such as a young and dynamic population, a skilled and educated workforce, a vibrant and creative civil society, and a visionary and reformist leadership .
The Horn of Africa is a region that is worth learning more about, as it is a fascinating and important part of the world, with a lot of relevance and influence on the global stage, as well as a lot of lessons and insights for the rest of the world. 😊
What about the Tigrinya? And shabia ? Last time I read Shabia is one of the most powerful forces in the Horn of Africa
@@dalac_93 shabiya doesnt exist anymore it got replaced by the pfdj
26:54 map is not correct. some part is Amhara land not Tigrey land. check previous Ethiopia map.
Eritrea beat Ethiopia in 1991 and became a legitimate country! I’m 100% sure they will do it again🇪🇷🇸🇴🫡 we are the best fighters in Africa, we don’t call Cuba and Christian countries for help!!!
Somalia is possibly the most irrelevant country in all of Africa, so you thrive on trying to ignite conflicts. Misery loves company.
Ethiopians are not in support of Abiy, and haven't been for a while. Ethiopian and Eritrean people are inseparable. But it would be in Eritrea's own interest to diplomatically sell Assab to Ethiopia, for a price of course. It is cut of from the Eritrean population, and the once lively city is now a ghost town with a dead economy. The Ethiopian government were urged to take it when mapping out borders during Eritrea's independence 30 years ago, and the Ethiopian government of that time (TPLF) declined, probably thinking Tigray would secede and annex eritrea sometime in the future.
@@servant_symmI have a better idea. I think Eritrea and Tegray (and possibly Afar) should unite as all these regions are inhabited by people of the same ethnic groups. Eritrea is an artificial legacy of colonialism anyway. There is no reason why they should not unite and form a more organic state, demographically speaking.
@@heruy8274 and what would the new name be
You have your own country we will respect that but we want aport and we should fight for it to get a port ,have you seen your own country on a map ? That ridiculous elongated port, no country is created or looks funny , like it's obvious your taking what's not yours , so you naturally happen to have all the ports 😂 so part of the port should come to ethiopia
Eventually Ethiopia has no choice but to go to war for port of Asab historically it is Ethioian.
Makes me want to see if I still have a HS research project I did on Ethiopia and see what I wrote about it back around the turn of the century. Thank you so much for this channel and all the history I am learning because of it.
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If Ethiopia 🇪🇹 invades Eritrea 🇪🇷 there is a high chance that Somalia 🇸🇴 might join the war and keep in mind Egypt 🇪🇬 and Sudan 🇸🇩 are breathing on Ethiopia’s neck so this might lead the regions of Ethiopia declaring independence and becoming a separate country leading to the complete collapse of Ethiopia
Bro, it will not happen and Somalia have better things to do and ethiopia is weak it is all big talk. At the end ethiopia will use Somalia land ports
weak anylisis,
-Somalia have no intention of joining this war, what is Somalia going to do with 50k soldiers fight Alshabab or get toasted in a war that doesn't concern them;
-Egypt and Sudan are busy, Sudan is in a civil war let alone fighting Ethiopia Egypt will also find it difficult for logistics since Sudan is not functional
-Ethiopias disintegration is impossible as the documentary said people have been saying that over 100 years yet here we are intact!
please educate yourself on this area before giving this kind of comment.
@@jhonywalker1168 Somalia might not but alshabab sure will. When the Tigray war was taking place Al shabab used the opportunity to attack Ethiopia and take some land.
Right, of this cosequence some regions could fall apart from the federal government.
@@samih5130 Somalis would rather die than let Ethiopia invade them
18:40 Tigray expansion to " Tselemt , Tsegedie ,Woqait , Humera " an Amhara land come later, few years after the fall of Mengistu and Eritrean independence . That is why it is on the hands of the Amhara today .
1. Eritrea didn't sever its port from Ethiopia in 1998. It is Ethiopia who sever the use of the Eritrean ports. You can do a simple google search and find out the former prim minister of Ethiopia(late prime minister Meles Zenawi) said using Eritrean ports(Assab and Massawa) will benefit Eritrea more than Ethiopia and Ethiopia stopped using the ports of Eritrea.
2. @37:41 If Ethiopia try to invade Eritrea or part of Eritrea the world might help or not, but one thing is clear, every Eritrean will fight for its sovereignty even the person like me who despise and oppose the current ruling government in Eritrea. Dictator ruling is one thing but Sovereignty is another.
3. @43:50 The single road between Asmara or Massawa to Assab is not much used by the Eritrean government, it is just for public services(Which is not much), the government/militaries use the sea to and from Assab, so that road has no consequence on the war whether the road is near or far from the Ethio-Eritrea boarder.
All in all war never been a solution for development or anything, what the current prime minister of Ethiopia saying or doing is wrong, this will lead the entire region to chaos. Everyone should stand against it, and work on diplomacy for better prosperity and development of that region. The resource or geography is not a problem in that region, the problem always has been the leaders with their personal ego and agenda.
The Ethiopians, the Eritreans, the Somalians don't need to go to war to develop and prosper but to work together with respecting each others sovereignty.
PEACE TO ALL.
@@Beeswax106 If Eritrea gives sea access to Ethiopia they will look at it as losing their sovereignty. Eritrea prides itself on neglecting sea access to their Ethiopian neighbors. They even taunt Ethiopia at times in some of their songs for having sea access while Ethiopia doesn't. Nonetheless, the biggest reason Eritrea wants to deprive Ethiopia from having sea access is to prevent Ethiopia from growing economically into a regional power that could rival Egypt or the Saudis. Eritrea has a long history of collaborating with Arabs/Europeans to undermine and sabotage Ethiopian development.
@@DWEthiopiaEthiopia warred against Eritrea to occupy her Sea coast but Eritrean people will never give up an inch of Eritrean land to any foreigner without fighting for it. The fact that you think Eritreans are spiteful to Ethiopians for simply being patriotic says more about Ethiopians than it says about Eritreans. Have you ever heard of Eritreans complaining whenever Ethiopians celebrate their victory over Italy (at Eritrea's expence)?
@@Beeswax106why give your enemy a opportunity 😂 dum oromo
@@heruy8274 Yes I have. I've seen it many times actually. I've seen Eritreans make hateful/spiteful comments about any positive news coming out of Ethiopia. Whether its Ethiopian victory in Adwa, Ethiopia's recent admission to BRICS, and even the development of the GERD. There are countless Eritreans that secretly and openly support/advocate causes that harm Ethiopia/Ethiopians. Many Ethiopians look to Eritreans as brothers/sisters and even welcome them with open arms in their cities/villages. What do they get in return? Many Eritreans even find success in Ethiopia opening up businesses. Can you say the same for Ethiopians in Eritrea? If you want to pretend like the Eritrean government and their intelligence networks don't have their hand in Ethiopian domestic issues, I won't fall for it.
Ethiopia has great ambitions and they’re really rolling the dice on this one. If Ahmad messes this up he’s gonna be the one to unite the chaotic Somalia to wage a war against him. One that his country nearly lost if it wasn’t for Russia pulling that uno reverse in the 70’s
I think all the neighboring countries should invade Ethiopia and teach them a lesson. Just because they have the number they want to be the bully of the neighbors. Maybe one day! Lucky for them all the neigbours are in a mess except Kenya and Uganda
@@Beeswax106 go sell your kids
@@Beeswax106 No Eritrea will never give up their land. It is Eritrean land and they will keep it and if Ethiopia attempts to attack Eritrea just know Eritreans will fight to the end
@@Beeswax106 Life isn't all rosy and fairytale like there are times when there can be no love and Eritreans have spent 30+ years fighting for their freedom from the oppressive Ethiopian regimes
TPLF should have thought about sea access and atleast should kept some part of Eritrea for direct sea access before signing the agreement.
They were arrogant corrupted leaders. They always thought to make an independent state of their own or if possible, to liberate Eritrea and build a joint state with Eritrea and Tigray, leaving Ethiopia at some point if they were to be faced with rebellion. That's why they never make any attempt to access the port. THEY KNOW IF THEY GAin ACCESS TO THE PORT WHILE RULLING Ethiopia, THEY WONT USE IT ONCE THEY CONTROLL ERTIREA AND MAKE THEIR DREAM STATE. They were in power for over 27years and armed their state (Tigrian) to the teeth which would been used in the Tigrian war on the video.
They really had no other choice. They were armed and trained by eplf, and the eplf even helped them capture Addis Ababa. The tplf didn’t want to fight with the eplf because they had better military equipment and experience.
I thought the same thing but apparently (according to my parents who were born and raised in Ethiopia during that time) the tplf didn't want to give Assab to Ethiopia because they were hoping to eventually separate from the country and seize Assab for themselves as a sovereign state.
How can you say that Eritrea was a free country before the Ethiopians broke the federation and invaded as? Eritrea had never been a part of Ethiopia in all of history your ideology of thinking or the story they teach you is not straight. if Eritrea was part of Ethiopia before.
1:how can you guys say Ethiopia is never been colonised?
2 Even if in the Axumayt kingdom, the region is distributed to India, and Yemen so how can you say only Eritrea is part of it?
3:Eritrea after 30 years of war we get our independence not because of Mele's sign or the Ethiopian government's signature. We are a country before that if you think this is a lie go and check it on Google you will find the truth there.
After World War II, Eritrea annexed to Ethiopia. Following the communist Ethiopian government's defeat in 1991 by the coalition created by various armed groups notably the EPLF and the TPLF among others, Eritrea declared its independence. Eritrea officially celebrated its 1st anniversary of independence on May 24,1994.
As a eritrean/jamaican im sad to see how my people are dying of hunger, I dont want people to suffer, please guys help my ethnic country eritrea please 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷
you are not eritrean if your father isn't
@@Hgddddswwwtg I AM BECAUSE MY MOM IS ERITREAN
@@Hgddddswwwtg I ALSO AM 50% ERITREAN YOU FORGOT THAT SO I AM ERITREAN HABESHA
@@Hgddddswwwtg IM HALF ERITREAN AND HALF JAMAICAN ARE YOU DUM DID YOU SEE THE "eritrean/jamaican"?? NEVER CALL ME A NON-ERITREAN. I AM ERITREAN!!! I AM ALSO JAMAICAN!!! SO SHUT UP AND NEVER CALL ME THAT
@@Teka9777FINALLY SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS IM ERITREAN/JAMAICAN
Today (November 28, 1520) Ferdinand Magellan achieved a historic maritime milestone by successfully navigating his fleet through a passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
On the western part of the world you also have Venezuela and Guyana having a bit of a fit as well.
With Venezuela wanting to seize 2/3rds of Guyana due to gold and oil.
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With the blessings of my country's corrupt ex-convict wannabe dictator. Sigh.
Venezuela doesn't need more oil, it needs a competent Goverment