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Eritrea was rescued from a self perpetuated death spiral, she lost her shabab project to Ethiopia (whom lost it to UAE) as means of pressuring Ethiopia, all her armed rebel groups became ineffective and were being picked off by the TPLF.Still bewildered by the America-UAE-Eritrea-British Axis especially on Eritrea's part.
What tangible benefits has/will Eritrea receive from this access? Anything less than total removal of sanctions seems like a major geopolitical failure on their part. The destruction of Ethiopia or its division worsening was always going to happen regardless of foreign meddling IMO.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

This is a good question, the Saudi's are on the side lines for the moment in regards to Somalia, why because I know they are funding Farmaajo and Sh Shariif although very modestly.Smooth,
What is KSA's role in this diabolical plan? They recently banned all livestock coming from Somalia and opened a new base in Djibouti..
Are the Saudis working with the American UAE axis?
The US is now a net exporter of oil and Trump wants to drill for even more. Pipelines are being built all over the country. The US doesn't need Saudi oil... its a huge shift from 8 years ago.This is a good question, the Saudi's are on the side lines for the moment in regards to Somalia, why because I know they are funding Farmaajo and Sh Shariif although very modestly.Smooth,
What is KSA's role in this diabolical plan? They recently banned all livestock coming from Somalia and opened a new base in Djibouti..
Are the Saudis working with the American UAE axis?
This new Saudi prince has a good grasp of geopolitics as we saw with his U turn against Egypt after the previous one gave them 20 billion with no concessions in return, his deals involve concessions and he is a forward thinker with his 2020 vision.
Cracks are appearing, UAE is siding with Egypt which irks the Saudi's, Sisi is even buying German submarines for the first time ever in Egypt history, the only reason would be to use them against the Saudi's and this has made the Royal family nervous as hell, as Sisi is best friends with Israel and now also Iran/Assad.
Remember the Saudi's are allied with the Turks and Qatar in the war in Syria and it was they who brokered peace between UAE and Qatar intense feud while back (sympathetic to Qatar), you also need to realise that the Saudi's in general are far more religious from the top as well as the general populace compared to UAE.
The UAE has french and American bases, the Saudi's don't, they have run out of oil but the Saudi's haven't (explains why they hate Qatar so much), so their interest are divergent especially with the new Saudi prince. On top of this, there is tremendous infighting in Saudi leadership
Then you have missiles being fired at them in Yemen, a restive shia population in their oil rich regions, threats from the Bahrain, Iraqi borders and the quagmire in Syria, they are encircled and have their hands full, hence having a base in Djibouti.
The Chinese are no longer buying the bulk of their oil from Saudi as they did before, they are getting the majority from Russia now, Trump openly stated he would stop buying Saudi oil, they have a 1000 things to worry about then Somalia at the moment, there very survival is at stake.
They are slowly moving into the China-Turkey-Qatar axis which is the opposite of UAE and time will tell, but for now, they are not involved.
The USA could have done this a long time ago but choose not to, every attempt at fracking was being blocked, they have been waning off Saudi oil slowly since the prices came down.The US is now a net exporter of oil and Trump wants to drill for even more. Pipelines are being built all over the country. The US doesn't need Saudi oil... its a huge shift from 8 years ago.
The Saudis have had a hand in many of these quagmires in the Middle East and clandestine support for these extremist groups isn't a secret.

You liberated foreigners but can't liberate yourself? Lol.good analysis.
so whose side is somaliland/djibouti on?
Stick removing that wayone boot of your neck.
Somaliland is part of somalia. Dumb injirely
LOL woyane, the same guys who were just raping somali women and slashing their throats, are barely surviving in ethiopia right now.
the oromo and amhara movements made them withdraw almost entirely from somalia, thus saving more precious somali lives.
you should be grateful for that. in a sense, we liberated somalia more than somalis did.
if somaliland felt they were somalia, which i do believe they are even if they do not feel that way, they would help stabilize somalia, even install an isaaq administration for the sake of peace.

Egypt to receive German submarine in early 2017: navy commanderSmooth what do you mean by sisi buying German submarines to use against Saudi?
Last time I checked the Saudis didn't have much of a navy. If you want to interdict oil flow you have to do it in the gulf not the red sea.
And the gulf is a crowded place with NATO and Iranian kilo class subs playing hide and seek. .
You liberated foreigners but can't liberate yourself? Lol.
Stick removing that wayone boot of your neck.
Somaliland is part of somalia. Dumb injirely
LOL woyane, the same guys who were just raping somali women and slashing their throats, are barely surviving in ethiopia right now.
the oromo and amhara movements made them withdraw almost entirely from somalia, thus saving more precious somali lives.
you should be grateful for that. in a sense, we liberated somalia more than somalis did.
if somaliland felt they were somalia, which i do believe they are even if they do not feel that way, they would help stabilize somalia, even install an isaaq administration for the sake of peace.

Egypt to receive German submarine in early 2017: navy commanderSmooth what do you mean by sisi buying German submarines to use against Saudi?
Last time I checked the Saudis didn't have much of a navy. If you want to interdict oil flow you have to do it in the gulf not the red sea.
And the gulf is a crowded place with NATO and Iranian kilo class subs playing hide and seek. .
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/eg ... -commander
I was reading Israeli intelligence Debka files for which I have a subscription and it got them worried too why SISI is all of a sudden buying it, the date pretty much the same time the falling out with the Saudi's when they cut of oil and aid and the Egyptian pounds went into free fall with IMF bailout.
It's not hard to connect both together, The German's are also training them already in how to operate them in combat missions, it only makes sense that it's either against Israel or Saudi Arabia, the former are great friends, the latter bitter enemies now, it's not hard to postulate who they are buying it for and it's destined for the red sea pointing at Saudi coasts.
Why would sisi spend several 100 millions at the worst time possible when people cannot buy sugar and medicines are scarce on submarines? with the threat of hunger protests looming large? the decision is heavily criticised.I'm not disputing the sale of the submarines, even though debka is a source of misinformation.
I was questioning the utility of them.


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