Fascist Ethiopian Empire

I was thinking about the ways of how a Fascist Ethiopia and came up with this:

Lij Iyasu V has been sent to the Russian Empire where he receives a formal European education in Moscow and becomes a more fervent Orthodox Christian but embraces a more liberal PoV as well as becoming a reformist similarly to Emperor Menelik II. Menelik grooms him to become his successor, Iyasu succeeding him as Emperor in 1913 when he died and promised to carry on the modernization process which isn't hampered by succession struggles and factionalization in the Imperial government. Modernization comes along faster with the transportation infrastructure being improved as roads and railways are built, financed by European capital while public works projects are pursued in the more populous cities. France backs Ethiopia as an ally alongside the Russian Empire, the former providing more financial support and the latter providing Ethiopia not only with advisors but arms that went towards equipping the Imperial Guard. Meanwhile, the French-educated Dejazmach Tafari Makonnen is selected by Iyasu to become Prime Minister and Commander of the Imperial Guard as he organized them with the assistance of Russian advisors - the Imperial Guard is at 10,000-12,000 strong by the time of the Great War. Iyasu declares Ethiopia neutral in the war in order to continue modernization as he wishes to see who will win before deciding to actually commit to either side but opens negotiations with the Entente about joining. Iyasu focuses on crippling the reactionary nobility with establishing a new reform-minded nobility that was to act as a centralized state bureaucracy aligned with the Ethiopian Emperor but he also has visions of making Ethiopia constitutional, similarly to Great Britain or Japan. Ethiopia finally joins the Entente in 1915 in return for British Somaliland and unrestricted access to arms but this lead to a major uprising throughout the southeastern Ogaden province which is crushed by a coalition of Imperial Guardsmen and feudal forces. Concentration camps are established in southeastern Ethiopia where the Imperial Guard turned different clans against one another, favoring the Somalis of the Gadabuursi clans over the rest of them which led to the revolutionaries often being massacred or many atrocities committed by feudal forces. With the assistance of an Anglo-French military mission, an Ethiopian Expeditionary Force of 45,000 men is sent to Egypt while another one of 10,000 was sent to Yemen and a few regiments that numbered 5,000 were sent to take German East Africa. The Ethiopians crush the Dervish forces after Mohammed Abdullah Hassan was killed off during the Ethiopian annexation of British Somaliland and soon enough, the Ethiopians partake in the Allied invasion into Palestine. Another Ethiopian Expeditionary Force of roughly 100,000 men was attached to French Army on the Western Front where they eventually adapt to the brutal conditions of the trenches and assist the Entente in forcing Germany to capitulate. Iyasu introduces a constitutional monarchy in 1918 where he retains significant influence over the Ethiopian government but established a bicameral parliament whose lower Chamber of Deputies where the people had a hand in the Ethiopian government for the first time in Ethiopian history. Ethiopia also began taking in White Russian refugees arriving in China, after opening an embassy in Peking as Iyasu declared that any Orthodox Christian Russian would be allowed to immigrate to Ethiopia which suddenly became a safe haven for Russian refugees. By the de-facto end of the Russian Civil War in 1923, Ethiopia had managed to take in roughly 200,000-300,000 Russians from the chaos of the RCW - many of these were often soldiers of the former Imperial Russian Army and White armies who found employment in the Ethiopian Army. Meanwhile, these other Russians found jobs as teachers and administrators as their knowledge was valued by reformist Ethiopians - international aid flowed into Ethiopia to assist the White Russians as they gradually assimilated into Ethiopian society. Ethiopia's image internationally was boosted by offering to take in hundreds of thousands of Russian refugees as she became a founding member of the League of Nations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Ethiopia flourished during the 20s as living standards rose alongside the amount of people moving to the urbanized provincial capitals, Iyasu bringing modernization into the rural regions and provinces historically on the Ethiopian periphery. However, the Great Depression hit Ethiopia hard as modernization slowed but Iyasu attempted to institute reforms to handle the issue of the economy while Ras Tafari Makonnen and a group of Imperial Guardsmen senior officers plotted. Iyasu was overthrown in 1928, being replaced with Ras Tafari who became Emperor Haile Selassie I and established a de-facto military dictatorship which gained an ideology in the form of Italian-educated Ethiopian intellectuals who admired Benito Mussolini's fascist ideology. They dubbed this new Ethiopian fascist ideology, "Rastafarianism", after his former name prior to becoming Emperor - the key points of the ideology were pan-Habesha Ethiopian nationalism, Orthodox Christian militarism, anti-imperialism, etc. An official political party centered around the aforementioned ideology which was called the National Royalist Party and declared the only legal Ethiopian political party, according to the new Ethiopian Constitution of 1929 which consolidated power in the hands of the Emperor. Haile Selassie I held similar reformist views to Iyasu but was more of an absolutist and absolutely crushed the reactionary nobles with an Imperial Guard the size of 150,000 men before promising the remnants amnesty if they joined him. Haile Selassie faced an increasing number of revolts in the predominantly Islamic southern and southeastern provinces which were reduced to second-class citizens by decree of the NRP but these were often crushed as he pursued extensive campaigns of conversion to Christianity in the Somali and Oromo regions. Those who began carrying out armed guerrilla movements were decisively smashed as revolutionary Muslims were deported to Yemen or other places in the Middle East - surely enough, Haile Selassie was slowly but steadily decreasing the numbers of Islamic Ethiopia as more Muslims fled into the surrounding European colonies. Haile Selassie was successful in instituting reforms to cushion the impact of the Great Depression and thanks to his efforts, infrastructure was extensively built up around the Ethiopian Highlands and spreading into southern Ethiopia. However, Ethiopia was being faced with the prospect of war with Fascist Italy in the mid-30s as border clashes broke out alongside southern Ethiopia's border with Italian Somaliland and Haile Selassie began preparing Ethiopia for war while Mussolini concentrated forces in the adjacent colonies. By Sept. of 1935, the Imperial Ethiopian Army was established with a total of 200,000 men that were ready for an Italian invasion that came along in Oct. 3rd as General De Bono advanced into northern Tigray and Haile Selassie declared war, mobilizing the Ethiopian people against the Italians.

Thoughts? Ideas?
 
So it’s a similar situation to Greece, a local variant of nice fascism, comes out against the Duce, who created the doctrine in the first place.
 
Total blue sky thinking here. What if Egypt’s Copt community, decides to work with Ethiopia?
Could we butterfly the free officers, twenty years earlier?
 
Total blue sky thinking here. What if Egypt’s Copt community, decides to work with Ethiopia?
Could we butterfly the free officers, twenty years earlier?
It could happen if a Coptic Egyptian revolt occurs and some kind of Coptic Christian fascist ideology becomes popular in Northeastern Africa.
 
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