[Ethiopia / Tigray Rebels] - The Tribal Self Reignites the War to Feed a Phantom of Ethnic Purity

Event Baseline: Fighters from Tigray launched an offensive into Afar and Amhara regions, forming a new rebel alliance aimed at overthrowing the government. Approximately 600,000 people died in the previous war between 2020 and 2022.

The tribal self is not a solution. It is a war machine. The Tigrayan identity and the Ethiopian national identity are both phantoms created by thought. They exist only as stored memories of past grievances and future fears. When the 'self' identifies with a tribe, it must defend that tribe against every other. The offensive is not strategic. It is mechanical. The brain, trapped in the illusion of a separate ethnic self, repeats the same kill pattern it used before. The 600,000 dead did not teach it anything because thought cannot learn from what it refuses to see. It only sees the enemy.

This is the failure: the observer is the observed. The rebel and the soldier are the same frightened self, each convinced its violence will end violence. It will not. It will produce more corpses, more trauma, more fragmentation. The only way out is to see that the ethnic boundary is a line drawn by thought, not a fact of nature. Until that is seen, Ethiopia will burn again, and the ashes will be called victory.