AbdiGeedi
To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
First let's start with the actual definition of the term "the International Community (IC)".
In practice the IC is not a homogeneous entity. It is rather a cluster of very different players including foreign governments and international organizations. In an old way of thinking, the IC is a colonial master.
It consists of the US, the EU, the IMF and the World Bank with servant organizations like the UN and the African Union (AU). Russia and China usually are not part of the group for historical and geopolitical reasons.
In reality, the IMF and the World Bank are the US financial arm or more precisely of the US Banking System and often viewed as the ones promoting the US giants like Goldman Sachs. The US dollar is the de facto world currency.
Ever since the collapse of Somalia in the 90s and up until recently the IC acted in a reactionary manner to the events in Somalia providing subsistence support to the country that was regarded as a failed state. The IC neglected to bring meaningful structural nation-rebuilding changes to Somalia and instead opted to bring in, finance and protractively rely on the African foreign troops aka the AMISOM.
In fact, the IC supported region-wide destabilization by green-lighting the official Wahhabi ideology of Saudi Arabia which in turn gave birth to the Al-Shabab terrorist group in Somalia. The Gulf monarchies were encouraged by the West to fund terrorist groups starting from Afghanistan and ending by Bosnia for geopolitical reasons.
Somalia's stabilization was jump started by the arrival of Turkey ten years ago. Unfortunately, the Turks are limited in available resources meaning the progress is painfully slow. On the positive side, the sense of stability has returned to Somalia. It is hard to believe Somalia went from the "Black Hawk Down" phase to the US embassy being operational in Mogadishu.
Knowing all too well that the democracy push in the Middle East has miserably failed, the IC is trying to repeat it in Somalia in a reckless manner devoid of realities on the ground. I suspect that it has to do with the Western desire to limit Turkey's presence in the region and align Somalia with Israel's Gulf axis encompassing Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain at the moment. The overall dictative tone of the IC towards the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) is humiliating and invokes negative reactions from Somalis, even those who are critical of the FGS.
Let me finish with a screenshot of a twitter message:
In practice the IC is not a homogeneous entity. It is rather a cluster of very different players including foreign governments and international organizations. In an old way of thinking, the IC is a colonial master.
It consists of the US, the EU, the IMF and the World Bank with servant organizations like the UN and the African Union (AU). Russia and China usually are not part of the group for historical and geopolitical reasons.
In reality, the IMF and the World Bank are the US financial arm or more precisely of the US Banking System and often viewed as the ones promoting the US giants like Goldman Sachs. The US dollar is the de facto world currency.
Ever since the collapse of Somalia in the 90s and up until recently the IC acted in a reactionary manner to the events in Somalia providing subsistence support to the country that was regarded as a failed state. The IC neglected to bring meaningful structural nation-rebuilding changes to Somalia and instead opted to bring in, finance and protractively rely on the African foreign troops aka the AMISOM.
In fact, the IC supported region-wide destabilization by green-lighting the official Wahhabi ideology of Saudi Arabia which in turn gave birth to the Al-Shabab terrorist group in Somalia. The Gulf monarchies were encouraged by the West to fund terrorist groups starting from Afghanistan and ending by Bosnia for geopolitical reasons.
Somalia's stabilization was jump started by the arrival of Turkey ten years ago. Unfortunately, the Turks are limited in available resources meaning the progress is painfully slow. On the positive side, the sense of stability has returned to Somalia. It is hard to believe Somalia went from the "Black Hawk Down" phase to the US embassy being operational in Mogadishu.
Knowing all too well that the democracy push in the Middle East has miserably failed, the IC is trying to repeat it in Somalia in a reckless manner devoid of realities on the ground. I suspect that it has to do with the Western desire to limit Turkey's presence in the region and align Somalia with Israel's Gulf axis encompassing Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain at the moment. The overall dictative tone of the IC towards the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) is humiliating and invokes negative reactions from Somalis, even those who are critical of the FGS.
Let me finish with a screenshot of a twitter message:
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