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With blood and Iron will we reach the fatherland
If we want the Somaliland region back we'd have to go the Prussia route, provide it economically, politically, militarily and with decent infrastructure, what way people will respect the power of national government and not the rebels or pseudo-states. I understand the EU trained polices but i don't really think the same will go with the Turkish trained soldiers, it seems to me that the Turks are too heavily invested to be fucking around and yeah I know Turkey going to look out for itself. However, we can make their interests work for us. I believe if we want to kill Al Shabab we have to target, supplies lines, informers, Internal/external financing and recruitmentThe issue with PKK could be explained easily.
If Xamar were to consolidate Somaliland by force then I'm sure there would be some groups hiding in the bushes fighting off the invaders for decades to come.
Most likely we'd know who they are as they all live with their families in a certain region.
We could clean them up overnight but that would end up worsening our relationship with the ex Landers citizens.
So we'll most likely just suffer their existence like Turkey does with the PKK.
Al Shabaab is different. No group will stand up for them and 99% want them gone.
A few months of intelligence and some bribery could let us know of all their local leaders through some help from the Turkish intelligence agency.
All it takes them is some well placed cheese traps and some modern artillery to clear them out.
However Turkey isn't really interested in helping us.
Those they train will most likely have inferior training that isn't applicable to real war just like the police training that EU is spending millions on.
If they really were to help us then they would have to clash with some European interests and I doubt they see us worth doing that.
Can't blame them though...It's us not helping ourselves that marked us as hopeless.
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