I gathered up some local information about the colonial period in Somalia which is 'verifiable' and 'rational' as I can see it 'replicated' even in Today Somalia. The way I test if something is true from the past is you should be able to see some 'remnants' of it today or else it's highly unlikely to be true.
Anyways back to the Majerteniya Kingdom for all the administration and development strides it reached and keeping with the old world that it existed in, it wasn't a perfect kingdom, it made some strategic mistakes and some strategic successes geo-politically at the time. I won't discuss to much the 'internal dynamics' of the kingdom as that requires another 'essay' but this will be a purely a strategic analysis where it succeeded and failed geo-politically.
1. Sending 'arms' and giving Darawish access to our ports was a great move to keep the commonwealth from taking the ottoman empire last 'port' in the red-sea. They already knocked out Egypt-Sudan coastal axis of the ottomans at the time while their was huge 'Mahdi rebellion' happening Sudan. They also 'armed' up the 'Najdi' Saudis to 'eliminate' the hijazi allied ottomans in 'jeddah' who later was told to move to 'jordan' an establish their kingdom there.
2. Their alliance with Italy was good in the fact they weren't anti ottoman and PL could continue it's relations with the 'ottoman sphere and its allies' while remaining obviously 'outside' of it and Independent. Similar to how we are in Somalia, we are apart of Somalia but we are totally 'independent' of it at the same time. PL seems to like these type of local or geopolitical relationships.
3. Their two kingdom alliance with Italy to 'cede' Galmudug to the Kingdom was 'strategical'. The colonials wanted 'anything' beyond 'beletwayn' and 'settlement' areas as their easier to 'administer and control' a settled population, plus their was a 'vacuum' due to the sacking of the 'sultan' who managed the south. This was very good strategic move by Puntites, as the settled people need 'governance' their not 'moving' population, I mean look at mogadishu in 91, any 'administration' then no 'administration'.
4. The Italians as bad as colonials were to locals, deeply invested in the south, as they wanted it to be their 'second home', they didn't want it be like North in SL where everything gets looted and shipped to London similar to the India story and the people are disenfranchised. English had no 'settlement' plans for the north which means there would've been no point too empower them beyond 'arming' them up to ensure the 'coastal' territories do not fall to other colonials.
Now the Key Mistakes The kingdom made was after it was destroyed and they came under Italy, we still didn't participate in the colony, only a 'small section of the old kingdom and their families' relocated to Mogadishu, not our people who were still 'fiercely' independent and felt defeated.
I know my grandfather never saw Muqdisho till 1960's when a Somali government was declared. A-lot of people do not know this but I was told by my mother, the Italians and British offered to build a university for Galkacyo but they refused fearing it was 'colonial school like berbera'.
So the big mistake we made was we didn't benefit from the colonials like the southern clans did in terms of knowledge transfer, we went to 'Mogadishu' as 'reer badiyes' and we still are in the sense mentally speaking. That's why for example my clan bah dubays(which is like 90%) interior clans in PL/SL/GM only had the opportunity to build upon from the 1960's taking advantage of the Italian inherited institutions. Our leaders didn't see the 'foresight' that 'knowledge' isn't 'colonial', you can ensure the 'knowledge is secular' and not 'religious' and why people in the world today 'stress' for a world that is secular because they fear you pollute their kids with your religion.
I still see this unfortunate backwardness in PL and to some extent Ogadens who I think this sort of thinking has been inherited from(the sayid) as he is very much respected in poetic societies of the interior regions of PL, it's time we change course on this legacy of not accepting 'secularism or anything outside Islam or Somalinimo' and not repeat the same mistakes of the past where we didn't accept british and italian colonials request to 'invest into education facilities' in PL, our leaders shortsightedness and lack of understanding that the world is shifting kept our population 'dumb and stupid' and un-prepared for a changing world and the only victims are the people who are now not able to perform in the world as their leaders focus on 'identity/religious preservation' has led them to strip our locals bare naked and display them to the world as an 'unworkable' partner to all countries and investors who are stuck in identity/religious nonsense.
Today a-lot of PL is still run by Islamist, we are still attached to this 'old world' for education and guidance when the real knowledge that gets people jobs is no longer in the regions they still share strong ties with your preparing them for an arab market that isn't available waryaa. Our market place is filled with Islamist inspired education, economic systems, banking, they even infiltrate our market place, they literally a cancer that is growing inside the population.
@Teeri-Alpha now let's see you dare respond to that because it's your idealogy that is circulating in our culture especially the 'north' beyond beletwayn river as they read sayid abdulle to know about identity preservation(nasabnimo) and what it is be a 'Somali'. That's why I focus on you a-lot not because I have any other intention as the founder of the idealogy needs to agree that it's time it 'gets updated' or else they won't change Teeri untill you do.
Anyways back to the Majerteniya Kingdom for all the administration and development strides it reached and keeping with the old world that it existed in, it wasn't a perfect kingdom, it made some strategic mistakes and some strategic successes geo-politically at the time. I won't discuss to much the 'internal dynamics' of the kingdom as that requires another 'essay' but this will be a purely a strategic analysis where it succeeded and failed geo-politically.
1. Sending 'arms' and giving Darawish access to our ports was a great move to keep the commonwealth from taking the ottoman empire last 'port' in the red-sea. They already knocked out Egypt-Sudan coastal axis of the ottomans at the time while their was huge 'Mahdi rebellion' happening Sudan. They also 'armed' up the 'Najdi' Saudis to 'eliminate' the hijazi allied ottomans in 'jeddah' who later was told to move to 'jordan' an establish their kingdom there.
2. Their alliance with Italy was good in the fact they weren't anti ottoman and PL could continue it's relations with the 'ottoman sphere and its allies' while remaining obviously 'outside' of it and Independent. Similar to how we are in Somalia, we are apart of Somalia but we are totally 'independent' of it at the same time. PL seems to like these type of local or geopolitical relationships.
3. Their two kingdom alliance with Italy to 'cede' Galmudug to the Kingdom was 'strategical'. The colonials wanted 'anything' beyond 'beletwayn' and 'settlement' areas as their easier to 'administer and control' a settled population, plus their was a 'vacuum' due to the sacking of the 'sultan' who managed the south. This was very good strategic move by Puntites, as the settled people need 'governance' their not 'moving' population, I mean look at mogadishu in 91, any 'administration' then no 'administration'.
4. The Italians as bad as colonials were to locals, deeply invested in the south, as they wanted it to be their 'second home', they didn't want it be like North in SL where everything gets looted and shipped to London similar to the India story and the people are disenfranchised. English had no 'settlement' plans for the north which means there would've been no point too empower them beyond 'arming' them up to ensure the 'coastal' territories do not fall to other colonials.
Now the Key Mistakes The kingdom made was after it was destroyed and they came under Italy, we still didn't participate in the colony, only a 'small section of the old kingdom and their families' relocated to Mogadishu, not our people who were still 'fiercely' independent and felt defeated.
I know my grandfather never saw Muqdisho till 1960's when a Somali government was declared. A-lot of people do not know this but I was told by my mother, the Italians and British offered to build a university for Galkacyo but they refused fearing it was 'colonial school like berbera'.
So the big mistake we made was we didn't benefit from the colonials like the southern clans did in terms of knowledge transfer, we went to 'Mogadishu' as 'reer badiyes' and we still are in the sense mentally speaking. That's why for example my clan bah dubays(which is like 90%) interior clans in PL/SL/GM only had the opportunity to build upon from the 1960's taking advantage of the Italian inherited institutions. Our leaders didn't see the 'foresight' that 'knowledge' isn't 'colonial', you can ensure the 'knowledge is secular' and not 'religious' and why people in the world today 'stress' for a world that is secular because they fear you pollute their kids with your religion.
I still see this unfortunate backwardness in PL and to some extent Ogadens who I think this sort of thinking has been inherited from(the sayid) as he is very much respected in poetic societies of the interior regions of PL, it's time we change course on this legacy of not accepting 'secularism or anything outside Islam or Somalinimo' and not repeat the same mistakes of the past where we didn't accept british and italian colonials request to 'invest into education facilities' in PL, our leaders shortsightedness and lack of understanding that the world is shifting kept our population 'dumb and stupid' and un-prepared for a changing world and the only victims are the people who are now not able to perform in the world as their leaders focus on 'identity/religious preservation' has led them to strip our locals bare naked and display them to the world as an 'unworkable' partner to all countries and investors who are stuck in identity/religious nonsense.
Today a-lot of PL is still run by Islamist, we are still attached to this 'old world' for education and guidance when the real knowledge that gets people jobs is no longer in the regions they still share strong ties with your preparing them for an arab market that isn't available waryaa. Our market place is filled with Islamist inspired education, economic systems, banking, they even infiltrate our market place, they literally a cancer that is growing inside the population.
@Teeri-Alpha now let's see you dare respond to that because it's your idealogy that is circulating in our culture especially the 'north' beyond beletwayn river as they read sayid abdulle to know about identity preservation(nasabnimo) and what it is be a 'Somali'. That's why I focus on you a-lot not because I have any other intention as the founder of the idealogy needs to agree that it's time it 'gets updated' or else they won't change Teeri untill you do.
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