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Leadership
contiguous to Eritrea and its
neighbors in the East African
region. Hundreds of millions of
Africans could be affected by such
an irresponsible action as regime-
change.
Sudan-48 million people, is
experiencing a horrible internal
war, threatening to destroy the
nation of Sudan, sending millions of
Sudanese fleeing into neighboring
nations. Ethiopia-125 million
people, after surviving a two
year war that killed hundreds of
thousands of Ethiopians (2020-
2022) is suffering internal strife as
the government continues to battle
ethnic-nationalists over the last
two years. South Sudan-11 million
people, has been virtually a failed
state since its independence in 2011.
Somalia-18 million people, the
government is struggling to achieve
stability, battling al Shabaab for
nearly two decades. Kenya with
55 million people, Uganda with
a population of 46 million, and
Djibouti with one million, would
not be immune from an externally
motivated removal of President
Afwerki. It is sheer madness
for Rubin and AEI to encourage
regime-change in such a turbulent
region. Either Rubin and AEI have
no understanding of the dynamics
of this region, and/or they are
completely oblivious regarding
the ill-fated consequences their
proposal for U.S. sponsored regime
change.
RULES-BASED
ORDER ADVOCATES
DESTABILIZING AFRICA
WITH REGIME CHANGE
OF ERITREA-
TRUMP BEWARE!
Eritrea’s coastline that borders the Gulf of Aden and
the Red Sea, is a strategic trade route, which the rules-
based order wants under the control of a more pliable
leader than President Afwerki, who is deemed too
independent.
The article is filled with assertions and only one
sighted source, Eritrea’s ambassador to South Sudan.
Comparisons are made to Zimbabwe, which was also
a target of failed attempts at regime-change; North
Korea, one of the nations listed in the “axis of evil”;
and Saddam Hussein, whose nation was invaded by
the West, which led to the creation ISIS. Of course,
Russia and China are not left out of Rubin’s diatribe.
Although Eritrea has been subject to various sanctions
over the decades, Rubin and AEI advocate additional
sanctions, empowering and funding opposition
groups for the removal of Eritrea’s President.
Rubin encourages pressuring allies of Eritrea, and
invites the involvement of the National Endowment
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