Mr President,
The American people that have supported the US government's global interventions under the pretext of democratization would be hard-pressed to know that a small impoverished but culturally, historically and naturally rich nation in East Africa embarked on its own democratization path three years ago.
However, the American people and the rest of the Western world are being misguided by the reports, narratives and data distortions of global entities many believe were driven to help impoverished countries like mine, yet have in the past months portrayed victims as oppressors and oppressors as victims through partisan narratives and bankrolled networks.
History always smiles upon those who have stood for truth.
And so, I am certain that truth will shine upon this proud nation Ethiopia!
Many Ethiopians and Africans looked with optimism...
at your ascent to the Presidency earlier this year.
This optimism has been rooted in the belief that a new dispensation for Africa-US relations will materialize in 2021, and that your Presidency would usher in respect for the sovereignty of African nations and nurture partnerships based on mutual growth and in depth reading of context.
African nations that have broken free from the shackles of colonialism starting from the 1950s have continued to resist the chains of neocolonialism that is manifesting itself in various overt and covert ways.
Despite escaping the yokes of colonialism, Ethiopia now struggles with its mutation. As a founding member of the United Nations and the Organization for African Unity (now African Union), Ethiopia remains a proud nation that through its sons, daughters and kinship with other African nations, is determined to meet our current challenges with the resilient and indomitable spirit that defines this great nation.
Developing nations, like Ethiopia, have been expectant that a new course in the US's foreign policy will be charted [uitgestippeld], departing from the influence of individuals that have entrenched themselves into the politics of other nations.
A foreign policy that can extricate [bevrijden] itself from decisions made based on key policymakers and policy influencer's friendships with belligerent terrorist groups like the TPLF and the narrative distortions of lobby groups.
We have seen the consequences and aftermaths of hurried and rash decisions made by various US administrations that have left many global populations in more desolate conditions than the intervention attempted to rectify.
It is essential to point out here that Ethiopia will not succumb to consequences of engineered pressure by disgruntled [ontstemde] individuals for whom consolidating power is more important than the well-being of millions.
Our identity as Ethiopians and our identity as Africans will not let this come to pass.
The humiliation our ancestors have faced throughout the continent for centuries will not be resuscitated [weer opgewekt] in these lands upon which the green, gold and red colors of independence have inspired many to successfully struggle for their freedom!
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