I never compared the 2 terror groups. I never said Dacish in PL has more man power or is stronger than Shabab in the south. Go and read my comments again. All I said was basically both groups have failed to take control of PL due to lack of local support. You even said it yourself that shabab is embedded into the clans of the south. This kind of support doesn't exist in PL. Now if lets say Omar Mahmoud or Ciise Mahmoud or other PL subclans overwhelmingly supported them, then PL would be fucked. PL would be a mirror image of the deep south. But alhamdulillah that ideology has been rejected by reer Puntland.
You never compared them. It was the sheikh in the video making the comparison and the thread maker ran with it to use it as tribal chest-pumping against Hawiyes (code word used is reer xamar).
And as I said before, the political conditions in the South and PL were never the same to make a comparison to begin with. As Midas wrote, South had numerous foreign interventions and was the centre of different factions being supported by neighbouring states to control the capital. The south was also more diverse and shabab took Advantage of the brutal warlord era and the subsequent Ethiopian occupation to build their support base.
Puntland is far easier to control for an administration than southern Somalia because it is essentially one clan and does not have the population size or resources of the south. Puntland itself had civil wars in the past and they even called the Ethiopians in to stop the ICU advance at the gates of Galkacayo. Even now, though Dacish doesn’t have popular support amongst the clans there, Mumin was first able to enter the area and make a hideout because he was seen as a “local”. Look how much trouble he has caused to almost make PL the epicentre of Dacish in the world. Do you think he would be able to set up base there if he was from Hargeysa? The arms trade to these groups is also ran by some prominent men from that region who smuggle them weapons from Yemen. what I am saying to you is that these groups take control of areas using different means and by largely exploiting social and political unrest.
The fact that they are able exploit some clan tensions in south more easily and they’ve built more success is not solely due to clans “loving these groups” as some retards are trying to claim. It is far more complicated and some clowns here are purposely trying to pretend these nuances do not exist. You can’t compare areas with homogenous clans to places like the capital where the legacy of aideeds and the following warlords eras, then the foreign interventions, set the pace for many of the events we see happening. This is the reality if we want to make genuine political analysis as opposed to people who think their clan defeated Hitler when they are a fighting a small ragtag militia consisting of Arabs, oromos and a few locals cave dwellers.