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🎭 A House Divided by Its Own Lies: Who Is Telling the Truth on the Red Sea? 🇪🇷 🇪🇹 When a regime builds an expansionist foreign policy on historical fantasy, its own officials inevitably contradict each other on camera. In a striking side-by-side contrast, two prominent figures operating within the federal structure—the Prosperity Party (PP) Navy Commander and Tigray Interim Administration President Getachew Reda—present irreconcilable realities regarding Eritrea’s sovereign coastlines. 🔍 Summary of the Clash: Fantasy vs. Hard Facts 🔴 The Navy Chief's Revisionist Mirage: Claims that the Red Sea, Assab, and Eritrea were historically integral parts of Ethiopia with legal foundations [00:01]. Asserts that Eritrea's separation was an "illegal divorce" that deprived Ethiopia of its legitimate rights [00:15]. Insists Ethiopia re-established its navy not to invade or threaten neighbors, but to "legally and diplomatically reclaim" ports that supposedly must be returned [00:27, 00:42]. 🟡 Getachew Reda's Reality Check: 1) Bluntly calls out those in Addis Ababa peddling myths of "ancient sea outlets" sold off or separated as outright fabrications [00:55]. 2) Clarifies that across centuries of Abyssinian governance, no Ethiopian ruler or regional monarch ever controlled Massawa [01:09]. 3) Affirms the historical fact: over the past 500 years, Ethiopia only administered Eritrean ports for a brief 30-year window—from the forced dissolution of the Federation up to Eritrea's liberation in 1991 [01:21, 01:37]. 4) Emphasizes that from the 16th century until 1952, Eritrean ports were never administered under Ethiopian rulers—an inconvenient, bitter truth for expansionists, but an undeniable historical reality [01:45, 02:01]. 💡 Geopolitical Takeaway 🟣 The Truth Exposes the Expansionist Pretext: Getachew Reda dismantles the manufactured legal and historical claims used by federal elites to justify claims on sovereign Eritrean waters. 🟢 Inviolable Sovereignty: Sovereign maritime borders are governed by international law and established treaties, not by romanticized historical revisions or domestic political distractions. 🔵 Internal Dysfunction on Full Display: A government whose senior leadership cannot agree on basic historical geography cannot present a coherent policy to its neighbors or the international community. "You cannot reclaim what you never possessed; history is not rewritten by maritime wishful thinking." Who of the Two is Lying Here? They Both Work for the Same Abiy Gov't #Eritrea #Ethiopia #RedSeaSecurity #HornOfAfrica #Assab #Massawa #InternationalLaw #Geopolitics #SovereigntyFirst