Growing out of the Rubble 

Examining nations around the world and assessing the probability of nations recovering from civil wars, invasions, persecution, ethnic wars, invasions, and other acts of war. How will nations recover if brain drain is a major part of emigration? 

Examine Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Myanmar, and Palestine, Russia and Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. How likely is a nation to recover from a political mess? Which of these countries made their second chance worth it, and which of them are yet to redeem themselves? Even worse, which of these are doomed? 

Watching the news is the worst place to receive what’s happening around the world, not to mention how each crisis is sensationalized at the moment, and when a new one comes along, the other one lies to collect dust. These stories of war, terror, and crisis don’t come to an end when the news changes topic. So what happens to those unfinished threads? 

We’ve seen a couple of wars emerge in the past few years, especially over the past few decades. Wars that have ranged from ethnic wars to full-on invasions. From political rivalry to religious extremism. These wars have been a tray of bitter and sour flavors. Among these, there are ongoing ones, like the Israel and Hamas, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and recent civil wars and coup d’état in Africa. So much chaos, and these have been recent conflicts with roots that go way back. Blood has been shed, hate has brewed, and hope has dimmed. 

Seeing all these conflicts, I look at Ethiopia as potentially one of those nations that could potentially stay in the rubble for good, with all the nastiness that's going on. Those nations that’ve been doomed for years and those that have been forgotten. Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, and Libya are among the few. Those countries where their sensational days have long gone, and now look at them in pity. All those lives that had hoped for help from the attention it gets on the news have turned their back on them. Only left with the rubble of their homes and in search of somewhere they can flee.

Ethiopia could become one of these countries. The lack of international media coverage has put it at a disadvantage of disappearing under the radar, just like Somalia and Sudan did, or like Afghanistan did. It’s still possible if people don’t wake up. 

Pride and stubbornness won’t grow a nation, especially with an attitude of superiority and internal division. It’s necessary to work through it as one, which doesn’t necessarily mean the same. You can’t force a country with more than 80 nationalities to be identified as Ethiopia. However, those people could work toward a common goal of what can be called “Ethiopia,” where religious integrity is intact, national resources are tapped, and relations internally and with neighbors like Eritrea (Especially Eritrea), then national integrity, or whatever that means, remains and essentially prevents the same disaster that had happened to the nations mentioned above.