If only bro waited a couple years and fully secured American support. Such a "little" thing could've changed the fate foreverSiad barre rushed into the war with Ethiopia. He should have been patient. after the war somali nationalism collapsed as an ideology
Tbf, there was always the very real possibility that the USSR would side with Ethiopia since Somalia was the aggressorIt was perfectly planned and executed if the battlefield remained one between two African regional powers. Nobody foresaw a whole superpower intervening, there was nothing Somalia could have done in such a situation but withdraw.
Even the US had to withdraw after China’s Second Offensive in 1950, or look at Russia today getting bogged down because of American military largesse boosting Ukrainian resistance. There is a level of intervention or interference that superpowers wield that can trouble even a great power let alone a small country with a 3 million population like 1970s Somalia.
The best move would have been to just focus on factories, shipyards, super ports and oil fields until you reach a level where your neighbours are so far behind you, the quest for unification would become a walk in the park.