> With conflicts like this, following the money is a useful exercise. Both sides must have some financial support. Follow the money and you might end up with a

> With conflicts like this, following the money is a useful exercise. Both sides must have some financial support. Follow the money and you might end up with a short list of usual suspects. Proxy wars have replaced conventional wars. If genocide happens is it's because of conflicting interests between those. You don't need to follow the money, it's been very obvious for last decade already. The old East Bloc was very keen on working with both old Marxist government of Ethiopia, as well as with people who toppled it, just for as long as they strayed away from the West. Since Abiy was aiming to engage with the West, they put sticks in his wheels, and apparently very successfully so.