We never learn.
A century or so ago, our forefathers were signing "protection" agreements with Europeans in an attempt to one up each other, only to find themselves colonial subjects and eventually lose half of Somali territory to Ethiopia and Kenya.
Today, the Europeans have been replaced by Arab and African proxies of the West. The sultanates have been replaced by competing and hostile statetlets and a toothless federal government that is a statelet in all but name, all eager to sign away anything of value in a desperate bid for supremacy (no offense to anybody

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How can they not see what is happening? How can they not realize they're following the same script? Our lack of foresight and inability to think beyond the immediate short term is baffling to me.
Our slavish devotion to the institution of qabiil has doomed us. The only natural ethnostate on the continent, with no racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious, or even class distinctions. Yet its absurdly homogenous population have decided to adopt a culture that creates artifical divisions where there are none.
Without a far reaching and unfortunately bloody cultural revolution, we are all doomed.