> it is telling that your first thought is establishing a military base to shoot impoverished people instead of addressing the underlying concerns of structural inequality and destabilized governance + civil society bruh, no serious geopolitical actor gives a shit about this. the only question is who's going to be sinking the boats, since there's plenty of non-western actors both in and outside the region who'd love a chance to exert influence on the bab-el-mandeb. i myself would be partial at letting abiy ahmed have a go at things since i feel the us military has better things to do than to babysit subsaharan africans. also, allowing part of a country that's serious about self-development to write off the rest is better than allowing the whole thing to fester as a shithole.
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