Farmaajo is in the position he is in because of the United States of America. If Mohamed Siyaad Barre had the United States of America's support, he would've been in power till his sudden and tragic death in 1995. Any Somali politician with America's blessings and approval will succeed over all other Somalis.
As he should be, I am America's boy in Somali politics. I value the US-Somalia relationship and I want it to become even stronger and closer
Somalia is an independent nation and should have relationship with anyone as it sees fit,but that should NEVER be at the expense of the US - Somalia relationship.
Of course I am alluding to the sharp anti-Americanism feelings that have surfaced as a result of misunderstanding the US and Donor statements recently.
America has been there for Somalia when the Russians and Chinese could care less.
The US must be held to that long trajectory and if there are misunderstandings then it should be our biggest imperative to correct it.
The State Department knows Somalia well, they know the Somali people well by now---the State department understands when the paradigm has shifted---the State Department must not be biased by the limitations of a lobbying class of special interest middlemen who have their own interests in keeping the status quo.
In 1977, Siad Barre ordered the Soviets out in less than 24 hours. They had been "THE" Somali State government as much as the Revolutionary Council had been until then.
In 2018, Farmaajo ordered the UN Special Representative Haysom out in less than 24 hours. The UNSR had been defacto VICEROY over the territory of former Somalia until then.
It is not outside the bounds of possibility that the Somali political response to feelings of egregious interference results in a RANDOM decision of expulsion of one or more Western envoys as a sign of EXTRAORDINARY displeasure even in a misunderstanding.
The world expects the State to be a RATIONAL ACTOR and to deal based on OBSERVABLE concept of "REASON."
Somalia is the longest Stateless society on earth, it is the ANTI-RATIONAL ACTOR and it is people DO NOT deal in observable concept of reason.
Somalis are a most INSTINCTUAL society (instinct based) and its concepts of order are completely grounded in INTUITIVE or intution based calibration.
This is why "aano qabiil" exists. It is not RATIONAL to kill not the killer but to kill the most consequential member of the killer's circle (i.e family/clan). That's an INSTINCTUAL calculation based on cold, hard INTUTION you will bleed 10X over and.will make sure your circle prevent one of theirs from ever trying that again (deterrence).
The world considers the opposite to be RATIONAL; you punish the individual who committed the crime.
Somalia is the 1% in every single probability that stops at 99% surety.
There is ALWAYS that 1% chance....
That is Somalia to the accepted world foundation of RATIONAL STATE ACTOR.
Somalia is THAT 1% outlier----you DO NOT condition it to what works for the 99%.
That leads to the stateless Somalia after the 1992 intervention which leads to REFUGEES/MIGRANTS/TERRORISM/PIRACY, ETC.
DO NOT REPEAT THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST IS WHAT I SAY.
