The colonisation part seems accurate, but not quite sure about the independent for 2000 years part given Italy occupied the country for about 5 years around 1936 to 1941.
I think it is accurate to say Italy did not fully set up a colony in that time, but I dunno how strong your claim to full, continuous independence is if you’re occupied by another country for half a decade?! I suppose some may argue that Ethiopia never surrendered to Italy, that resistance groups fought back throughout the period and that their leader Hailie Selassie, while exiled, never surrendered his leadership - and that this means Ethiopia never surrendered it’s independence. My view is probably that while they may not have surrendered their independence and bravely resisted, their independence was still heavily compromised (or outright taken from them) by the Italian occupation in that period.
@Leper wanna weigh in? If I’m not mistaken, WW2 ish era is probably your area of expertise more than any other period?
American Civil War and Reconstruction is my biggest specialty but I’ve certainly done plenty on World War Two.
The League of Nations failing to meaningfully respond to Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia was a nail in its coffin for certain. Even at a time when decolonisation was so close, Britain and France were never going to act against imperialism in that way. Ethiopia was occupied but as you rightly say, no effective colonial administration had time to form and no surrender was issued.
I think a lot of countries that were occupied in WW2 wouldn’t have considered themselves colonised. Maybe a more accurate thing for the tweet to say might have been that Ethiopia has never given up it’s independence. Then again that might be controversial because it would imply that other colonised countries did even though really they had no choice.
