'Canadian Bacon', one of the most underrated political satires Hollywood has to come up, I must admit, plays with the improbable idea of the US getting embroiled into "war" with its unsuspecting northern neighbor, Canada. The way the movie portraits supposedly US politicians exploiting the emotions of common citizens through mass media or creating some where non-existent; based on stereotypes about Canadians; things that may "irritate" Americans be it the neatness of the streets of Toronto or the free health care the Canadians enjoy is strikingly
reminiscent to the cheap tactics the TPLF "Gang of Five" in Ethiopia is engaged in to persue its war on Eritrea. Sadly, 'Eritrean Bacon is a reality today.

Many Ethiopians remember when the TPLF Foreign Minister on a broad daylight, at one of his repeatedly recurring staged press conferences actually expressed his rage on how strict the Asmara City Municipality authorities are on public hygiene! (Surely, many Ethiopians must have wondered what the FM had to do anything with Eritrean domestic matters anyways). And who can forget the ghastly Qatari TV-interview with one of their sexagenarian ideologues (Sebhate Nega was the name, if my memory serves me correctly) commenting on alleged Eritrean "inflated" self-image?!

It is a common knowledge that during the Cold War nothing matched the performance of the KGB on global disinformation - well, perhaps one or two intelligence agencies in the Middle East. The KGB actually had a whole directorate for the sole purpose of confusing the West. As much as the damage it inflicts, the problem with organized disinformation, no matter how tactical, is however that it also generates a boomerang effect. The credit of some of the Eritrean diplomatic successes to date goes nowhere but to the TPLF. With its repeated "faux pas", the TPLF has
single-handedly managed to unveil its true war agenda. Its disregard for the sanctity of existing political borders. And the world community has ceased to see Eritrea and Ethiopia as if they were mirror images of each other.

As we find ourselves deep in the labyrinths of the cyber-alleys, the spread of information into the ether medium has become a powerful tool of
propaganda influx. And this obviously hasn't escaped the TPLF regime. Through many of its web outlets, the regime continues to propagate its
redundant chain articles signed by phantom authors. Some familiar names like Henze are franchised on regular basis. Earlier last month, the above mentioned TPLF Minister had made an awkward attempt to accuse Eritrea in a letter sent to Washington Post. The letter never made it beyond "Walta". Now the creativeness of the combined heads behind the "Walta-ish" websites in picking fake Ethiopian author names has become so worryingly poor that people usually do not visit the sites in search of any grain of truth about the conflict but rather for their unwittingly obvious entertainment value.

By now, the TPLF should have learnt that the only option left to solve this conflict is the one that leads to a peaceful demarcation of the common border. It is a pity that the TPLF still is bent on pursuit of its war of aggression against Eritrea despite repeated pressures from the international
community. But of course this is not highly uncharacteristic of military adventurists who happen to confuse their fate with that of their country.

Now that the famine reality is haunting the TPLF regime as it did with the succesive regimes before it, the world is gradually realizing what kind of rulers are running Ethiopia abhoring their lack of regard of human lives.

Eventhough things are on the right track, increased pressure on TPLF is needed to avoid another military confrontation for the continued purchase of  bomber planes is not meant to decorate the airfields of Debrezeit.

Abraham