Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Nile dam: Satellite images show water levels rising - BBC News" video.

I don't see how Egypt can POSSIBLY remain "fine" if another nation controls one of their nation's major sources of water, and utilises it for power rather than drinking and irrigation. How secure would YOU feel if another nation controlled the reservoirs and rivers that supplied YOUR water?
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@teoethio The water isn't YOURS - it's everybody's. If you're selfish enough to see people starve, and foolish enough to think Egypt would not annihilate Ethiopia over this, you should think again.
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@drawingbynati The Nile is a vital water resource for much of North Africa. If any one nation decides to restrict tha water to other nations, that's tantamount to a declaration of war. Ethiopia had better fix its attitude or it will be staring down the barrel of extinction. You can mess around with semantics but it will not help protect you.
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@teoethio Let me give you a reality check: Ethiopia has an annual military budget of 350 million dollars a year and dirt farmers as allies. Egypt spends 4-11 BILLION per year and is backed by the largest military power and the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet. Scump has ALREADY offered his help but if push comes to shove, a pissant nation like Ethiopia would fall down on its knees and take it from behind if Egypt decided to flex its military muscles and no other nation would lift a finger to intervene. If you're seriously equating the situation in 1874, to modern Egypt, you're deluded. There's a huge difference between a few mercenaries in a hand to hand warr, and the military might of the USA at your back. Sorry if your nation's insignificance is painful to hear, but don't take it too badly. I live in Britain and our population delusionally still thinks we're an empire instead of a 2nd rate power too. It's comforting to relive past glories rather than cooly appraising the fact that you sat on your hands for 150 years whilst your former enemy built its military might.
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@albejaine That would be great, but the Middle East has always been a site of conflict. You can't just wish it away and hope nobody will take advantage. Water scarcity is set to be one of the great causes over the next 100 years.
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@teoethio I am by NO means claiming Egypt is good and if they abandoned Palestin as yuo suggest, then that is a black mark on their character. I am merely stating that they will not tolerate the water that they depend upon to live on being throttled if they have the power to do anything about it, and they do. Again, comparing the Middle East to Vietnam is not a sensible comparison. The terrain in Vietnam was dense jungle which made travel onerous, and spotting the enemy difficult. Also, America could not go scorched earth because there were civilians in the area. Moreover, America has air weapons now that are total game changers. If you want to make a comparison, compare to Iraq or Syria. America's current strategy is not to put boots on the ground if they don't need to. Analysis suggests that water shortage in the Middle East due to climate change will be one of the great sources of military conflict over the coming century. Creating an artificial shortage for an entire nation, so that you can make hydro-electric power seems desperately short sighted, simply hastening something that could have been avoided. And speaking personally, I have always seen Egyptians as black according to their portrayal in the TV series Rome and in the Bible. Not that their skin colour matters. My hope is that Ethiiopia will be reasonable, and conflict can be avoided. On one hand they are to be praised for developing renewable energy. I just hope that they can find a way to do so that will not destabilise the region. My fear is that the American war machine is constantly SEEKING new opportunities to go to war to justify its bloated budget and pay dividends to its shareholders. They're a danger to the entire planet, even as so-called allies.
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Too many long words huh?
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@brogant6793 No one nation should control a river that sustains them all.
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@lorrainemarshall4183 Of course not, because no other nations are down river from them!
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The Scump administration? They turn everything they touch to shit. Why would anyone hope that they would improve the situation?
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