[Ethiopia / Tigray] - The Tribal Self Repeats the Drone Strike to Feed Its Phantom of a Unified State

Event Baseline: Rebel Tigrayan authorities accused Ethiopia's federal government of launching another drone strike in the northern Tigray region on Tuesday. The federal government has conducted multiple drone strikes and massed troops near the regional border, raising fears of a return to the 2020-2022 civil war that killed approximately 600,000 people.

The federal self sees Tigray as a separate disease to be cut out. The drone is the instrument of that delusion. It drops fire on a phantom enemy while the real enemy is the belief that the state and the region are two. The observer in Addis Ababa splits the body and then attacks the shadow. The Tigrayan self answers by claiming victimhood and separate identity. Both feed on the same lie: that there is a 'we' and a 'they'.

Thought builds the border, then builds the bomb, then builds the funeral. The civil war killed 600,000 bodies, but the self learned nothing because it is memory. It repeats the same mechanical response six years later. The past is security. The past is the tribal flag. The past is the drone. The present is crushed under the weight of that dead identity.

No ceasefire will hold while each side needs the other as enemy. The warrior self requires the threat to exist. The leader self requires the corpse to prove power. This will burn until the observer, the one who says 'I am Ethiopian' or 'I am Tigrayan', is seen as the same thought. Only then can the drone stop.