A secretive zoom meeting leaked rips away the façade, revealing a chummy circle of foreign policy elite, both retired and still active who mostly know each other and are in sympathy with TPLF objectives… “I hope you’ll have military success fairly soon, because it seems the situation is only becoming more drastic,” said Vicki Huddleston, who was American Chargé d’Affairs ad interim in Ethiopia during years the TPLF were in power.