The Soviets stabbed Somalis in the back when they switched sides to Ethiopians. They did it because they wanted to turn Somalis into atheists like the USSR did to Central Asia and Siad Barre was only willing to do so much. They did it because the Soviets were Christians all along, they sided with Ethiopia because they were Christians too but we were proud Muslims. Communism was a farce used to steal the resources of the Russian people and when the Soviet Union fell, those resources were never given back to the people but instead divided up among oligarchs.
How could Siad Barre and the Somalis at large have faith in the Soviets. The Soviets nor the Americans are anyone to trust. Unless we Somalis have our own arms, and our own weapon systems theres no point confronting the Habesha and Kikuyu. Whoever your arms dealer is, you're at the mercy of. We paid a heavy price for that in the 20th century. Let us not forget that moving forward. We cannot depend upon any country for our arms, not the Americans, not the Russians, not even the Turks. Somali arms must fight Somali wars.
We need our own arms companies. Somalia is currently under the longest arms embargo ever placed on any government in history, by the world. The United Nations permanent Security Council (Russia, China, British, French and Americans) do not want the Somali government to consolidate power across Somalia and have the capacity to enforce law and order. When apartheid South Africans were imposed with a similar arms embargo, they immediately developed their own arms industry and built their own arms. The world ultimately had to end its arms embargo because it had no purpose, the whites had their own arms and capacity to fight on. How comes we Somalis haven't developed our own arms industry yet? We could.
How could Siad Barre and the Somalis at large have faith in the Soviets. The Soviets nor the Americans are anyone to trust. Unless we Somalis have our own arms, and our own weapon systems theres no point confronting the Habesha and Kikuyu. Whoever your arms dealer is, you're at the mercy of. We paid a heavy price for that in the 20th century. Let us not forget that moving forward. We cannot depend upon any country for our arms, not the Americans, not the Russians, not even the Turks. Somali arms must fight Somali wars.
We need our own arms companies. Somalia is currently under the longest arms embargo ever placed on any government in history, by the world. The United Nations permanent Security Council (Russia, China, British, French and Americans) do not want the Somali government to consolidate power across Somalia and have the capacity to enforce law and order. When apartheid South Africans were imposed with a similar arms embargo, they immediately developed their own arms industry and built their own arms. The world ultimately had to end its arms embargo because it had no purpose, the whites had their own arms and capacity to fight on. How comes we Somalis haven't developed our own arms industry yet? We could.
Ethiopia is the one that requested the UN to lift the arms embargo against Eritrea.
