I really don't understand why you want to blame the USA for this situation. There were public reports that a US official seriously advised Meles about having a sea outlet for Ethiopia but he refused.

That's a psychological barrier Eritreans are incapable of crossing, they feel a lot of blood was spilled to liberate Assab and to keep it, so the problem is, if they were to lose Assab they will feel all their brothers and sisters who died defending Assab died in vain. To prevent that sorrow they want to have theoretical sovereignty, but they will never use it to strangle Ethiopia because they know the troubles it will cause.

If the coming Ethiopian leader is capable of exercising prudence, it is not fruitful to cause unnecessary distress to Eritreans by waging war. Just let them be, let the wounds heal, in twenty years all those eritreans who have bitter feelings towards Ethiopia will grow old, the new generation will slowly reconcile for the sake of a better future. No need to widen the wound by starting another war.

But realistically that's not how it will probably play out, the British and the Americans have their own interests, if an old fashioned Ethiopian leader with a martial spirit comes to power, he will insist on liberating Assab and there is no question the west will agree with him. It is the fate of the HoA to go from one war to another, it is just a region that doesn't appreciate the virtues of peace. So yes, war is more likely than a peaceful coexistence.

You know, eritreans are incapable of seeing one truth due to the emotions of the last war, Meles is the last best bet of Eritrea, because he simply doesn't want to harm the sovereignty Eritrea for which he fought all his life. It is the case of the devil you know is beeter than the angel you don't know. Meles is the devil they know, but they doo prefer to bet on the angel they don't know. Yet the danger is, the angel that will replace Meles might be so in love with Eritreans he might even try to force them to be Ethiopians. We just don't know what the future will bring, because we are all busy praying for the downfall of Woyane.

I always thought The op had some mental problems but now i know he also has issues with his own identity.
What sea you talking about? The afars of Eritrea are the original Eritreans and owners of the sea all the way to massawa while the Habab Tigre are the owners of the rest of the coast all the way to east sudan, Both were there when your kind was either still monkeys on a tree or in yemen when the habesh were getting Slaughtered by the Arab Adananites. I don't need to remind you what happened in 2000 when you try to take asseb and got your a** wiped out. Even the afars in ethiopia are calling to Unite with Eritrea instead of the other way around these days. If you want to take the coast which would never ever happen you will only be invading a coast belonging to people who are neither Ethiopians and hate ethiopians and the name ethiopia itself. So in short its not your coast its just another fairytale expansion based on your Micky mouse history. Don't people relaise now that the most patriotic Eritreans are those from along the coast??? you don't undertsand how much they hate ethiopians if only you knew you would rather take the coast of kenya instead.

Conformist,

Minilik never gave away Djibouti to the French. It was lease for 100 years for the railroad deal. Mengistu gave it away when the lease was up and Djibouti supposed to be returned back to Ethiopia. Minilik made a deal at the time when Ethiopia had no means of transportation to be connected with the outside world.

1. Meles too is talking about a 99 year least, just like Menilik.

2. An honorable leader would never lease a square inch of land to European power which was a threat to Ethiopia.

3. If you need a railway build it yourself, if you can't build it you don't need it.

1. Melse sold the country and brought slavery to the local indigenous people at the cheapest price even the buyers couldn't believe the price they were offered. While Menilik brought civilization to Ethiopia.

2. For the time it was the best deal to bring Ethiopia to the future.

3. The knowledge was no there at the time for Ethiopia to build it.

You just cannot compare a Minilik man who brought Ethiopia out of dark and slavery and Melse a man who is leading Ethiopia back to Slavery.