True but theres more on the table here its Somali politics after all
Yes we all know this, but the power and allure of money has made even bitter rivals best buddies- everything else is just theater to justify current actions.
Forgot about this, but the part with the most resources is in the east in the mountains behind Las Qoray, realistically only if Warsangeli truly want it in the future will WB get Sanaag, this is why PL is trying to make them overly dependant on Bosaso, they have big leverage over them
Soviet prospectors found platinum in W. Sanaag, the Americans also got coal samples in most of Sanaag as well. All things considered, those mountains are an unknown quantity and thus PL can't go out on a limb and dish out land it could potentially plunder- why enrich somebody else because you did not look hard enough?
Imagine your own so called state having its own foreign policy and dragging you through the mud by supporting a genocide, and then they have the audacity to come to parliament and insult your ministers, and the funny part is that they cant do nothing about it, you could see it on Fiqi's face
Very odd "country"
Yeah, the humiliation ritual is quite mundane- but you have to remember that Xamar can't do nothing about this- Puntland is the neo-colony
(Puntlanders! search up what this means before you yell at me!- infact for the learned among you here is a book that delves deeper on this topic) of the United Arab Emirates- is it not surprising that they decided to use their airport in Boosaaso to further their plunder of Sudan, and to aid their neo-colony in the RSF? Something that makes this situation even more absurd is that Somalia and Sudan are allies- if Sudan thinks Xamar could have done something about this they would have broken off the alliance when this got revealed.
The whole world has been carved into spheres of influence- but it is not uncommon for spheres of influence to cut into a nation. The question of if Istanbu- uhh I mean
Xamar can assert itself in the north will be a issue of critical importance in the coming decade- a question of equal importance will be if the Somali people can actually assert themselves in the whole of their country and end the pilfering of their lands by imperial powers.
, PL are never going to leave Sanaag without violence as Sanaag has gold now- also their backers from the Arab Khaleej would not allow it as that would break their monopoly over the north Somali coast.
