[Ethiopia / Armed Groups] - The Tribal Self Forges an Alliance Against the State to Feed a Phantom of Victory, Proving the Illusion of a Permanent Enemy

Event Baseline: In Ethiopia, multiple armed groups formerly opposed to each other announced an alliance against the federal government, amid fears of expanding civil war. The groups seek to settle their differences to confront a shared perceived enemy.

The self has no fixed identity. It reconfigures friendship and enmity according to mechanical convenience. These groups were killing each other yesterday. Today they embrace to kill a third. This is not strategy. It is the reflex of a fragmented mind that can only define itself by opposition. The illusion of the separate tribal self demands an enemy. When one enemy fades, another must be invented. The body count will rise because no one questions the root: the belief in a separate self worth killing for.