I like patterns. Patterns are very important. Patterns reflect the reality around us.
Everything you see in Somalia's "state building" right now is superficial. It is a mirage. A placeholder. A pointless, irrelevant farce.
It is what Afghanistan was under until that moment American troops were removed by Biden.
And the AMISOM and foreign troops in Somalia will leave. It only takes one single unforseen momentary downturn in the Global stock market before Somalia can be "left to the wolves." And the African troops will leave all of them.
Now why do I say this is Afghanistan II?
Last night, I had Abkoow express such profound confusion about the reality, I realized the reason we will become Afghanistan II OR really I should say---go back to post UNOSOM Somalia the moment the American Rangers were withdrawn is because---the "statebuilding" is unnatural. It does not reflect the reality. It is superficial.
1. From 1991 to the TPLF invasion; no single tribe or clan could build an administration for Mogadishu or "Gobolka Benadir". Not for a single 24 HOUR PERIOD---did Mogadishu have a single city admin. Yet, one single subclan has been bestowed with "Mayor of Mogadishu and Governor of Benadir" like an heirloom. If this was merited, it would have naturally come to fruition controlling for all other unnatural factors like AMISOM. I have expressed no enmity to this sub-clan especially as you recognize that I have no political equity in Mogadishu so there is nothing personal. 1991-2006, evem Dayniile was an autonomous clan fiefdom. When this unnatural moment is no longer physically kept afloat---there will be no single sub-clan heirloom for Mayor of Mogadishu/Governor of Benadir. Mogadishu will revert to the same city it was in the 90's or be taken by Al Shabaab quicker than Afghanistan fell to Taliban.
2. I am not going to spend much time on Beled-Weyne, other than to say it was possibly the only city or settlement in Somalia probably more divided and less capable of forming a single administration than Mogadishu. Mogadishu had divided districts. Beled-weyne had divided blocks. There are at least 40 case studies on Beled-weyne that will show you the extent of "no man's land" the town was. If you do not get an appreciation for the role of justice and social confidence in any attempted settlement to Somalia's quagmire, read-every-single-case-study-or-report-or-description-or-analysis-or-explanation-concerning-Beled-Weyne-from-1991-2006. That town is the settlement in Somalia, probably the only one more than Mogadishu, less capable of producing a single even relatively, even moderately dominant group capable of even leading let alone disproportionately impacting the production of a city-wide administration.
Then look at Kismaayo.
This whole show is something from the twilight zone.
Theree is no "state building" underway in Somalia. The whole nothingness is like a "filler" just to occupy time that has to be occupied.
Every single one of you who reads this can already foresee exactly what I foresee.
When it happens, and some feign surprise---I will simply say "I am not interested in fake today. Fake got us to this point."





