Brotherhood renewed Puntland & Bay/Bakool

[Lord Flacko]

@XamarCade @SOMALI GENERAL The questions I'm asking are the ones that actually matter if you want to have a centralized Somalia. In fact, the attempt at centralization that you are supporting maybe the one that finally breaks Somalia. These are big questions that have to answered before we can do much of anything else.

I am a unionist, but I can't support a centralized state that will be based in Mogadishu as it will inevitably cause harm to my region.

Here is an example o what I am talking about. Something can be good for the country as a whole, but not for a part of the country.

Yucca mountain is a mountain in the desert of Nevada that is perfect for storing nuclear waste. On average, there are huge benefits to centralizing nuclear waste in a single location. But the people of Nevada opposed the Yucca mountain proposal because it would harm their state's image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository

The interests of the nation-state can be directly opposed to the interests of a region. The interests of Somalia, as a nation-state, maybe directly contradictory of the interests of Puntland in some cases, and I am not willing to sacrifice Puntland's interest for the sake of the national interest.

How would you feel if there was an actual Government based on federalism? That is to say not the kind we have today, which is far from it.


For actual federalism, the size of the state's would be shrunk (and not be drawn with straight lines) and the Federal Government will hold absolute power over the army and foreign relations. States can still have autonomy, and share responsibilites with the Federal Government. The position of State President is to be removed and be replaced with a Governor or a Council.


Would you support that, or do you want the current version of umbrella countries that only further divide a nation to continue? Because that's what the current model does. State militias fighting eachother, state presidents going on foreign trips and the state identity over a national one increasing by every year. Because this current model will not last, hell there are scholars who worry that the normal form of federalism can further divide a nation. That leaves no hope for the form we have taken on.