{"id":64625,"date":"2026-04-17T09:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64625"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:20:09","slug":"italy-vs-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64625","title":{"rendered":"Italy vs Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Italy_vs_Ethiopia.jpg\" alt=\"Italy vs Ethiopia\" width=\"656\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Italy_vs_Ethiopia.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Italy_vs_Ethiopia-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">1896. Italy invaded Ethiopia expecting easy conquest. Emperor Menelik II had spent years buying modern rifles from France and Russia. 100,000 Ethiopian soldiers. Armed. Trained. Organized.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Italy sent 17,000. Their commander split forces into three columns marching through mountains at night. They got lost. Arrived separated. Menelik&#8217;s army destroyed each column before they could reunite.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">7,000 Italians killed or captured. Worst European defeat in Africa. Italy signed a treaty recognizing Ethiopian independence. No European power ever successfully colonized Ethiopia.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">While every other African nation was carved up, one country said no and backed it up with force. Most history books skip Adwa entirely.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>(Tom: As was all throughout history, as is now. Armed people with bad intent require armed people with good intent to defeat them.<\/p>\n<p>There is a name for a disarmed population. It is &#8216;victims of aggression&#8217;. The ignorant and powerless are all too easily enslaved by those with evil intentions who have no moral limits to the techniques of enslavement they are prepared to employ.<\/p>\n<p>Whether from an external or an internal threat, any preservation of independence requires a balance of force and intelligence. You need both. Preferably in abundance!<\/p>\n<p>And you were thinking I am talking about history, not our present society?!<\/p>\n<p>There has never been a more important time to recognize the following:<br \/>\nthe twelve characteristics of an anti-social person,<br \/>\nthe twelve characteristics of a social personality,<br \/>\na conversational technique by which you can detect who you can trust and who you cannot within two minutes of meeting them,<br \/>\nhow, as an administrator, you can detect a suppressive person<br \/>\nhow to flourish and prosper in the face of suppression.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to equip yourself with a higher skill level in order to better survive in a morally corrupt society and despite various individuals in your environment not being aligned with your best interests, contact me. I have done a course (several times over the decades) that has put me a a better condition to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1896. Italy invaded Ethiopia expecting easy conquest. Emperor Menelik II had spent years buying modern rifles from France and Russia. 100,000 Ethiopian soldiers. Armed. Trained. Organized. Italy sent 17,000. Their commander split forces into three columns marching through mountains at night. They got lost. Arrived separated. Menelik&#8217;s army destroyed each column before they could reunite. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64625\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Italy vs Ethiopia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64627,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64625\/revisions\/64627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}