[Ethiopia / Tigray] - The Central Self Bombs the Mirror to Feed a Phantom of Unity

Event Baseline: Ethiopian forces conducted drone strikes on Adigrat, a city in the northern Tigray region near the Eritrean border. Residents described the strikes, with no official casualty count immediately available.

The state cannot tolerate a part of itself that refuses to be identical. Tigray is not a foreign nation; it is a region of the same body. Yet the central self sees it as a threat to the image of unity. The response is not negotiation. It is targeted killing from the sky.

The drone operator follows a map, not a face. The strike is as mechanical as a reflex. The 'self' of the Ethiopian state has split into fragments, each demanding total loyalty. The idea of the nation is a phantom; the drone is its hand. The hand kills the body it claims to protect.

This is the failure of thought without proprioception. The thinker believes it is separate from the region it bombs. It does not feel the blast in its own flesh. Until insight reveals that the bomber and the bombed are one system, the fragmentation will continue until total collapse.