UAE confirms military activities on Yemen's Socotra island: Binoculars from Guardafui

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The United Arab Emirates said it has sent military recruits to train in battle skills, weapons training and first aid on Yemen's Socotra island on Monday.

Emirati military recruits are being trained on a Yemeni island, UAE authorities said on Monday, confirming its activities in Socotra after several years of rumours.

The training on Socotra Island, described as "intensive" by the UAE's state-run WAM news agency, includes battle skills, weapons training and first aid.

Socotra, an island 300 miles off the southern coast of Yemen and listed as a UNESCO world heritage site for its unique flora and fauna, has recently been the topic of dispute due to the UAE’s influence on the island.

UAE forces and aid organisations have been on Socotra Island, which sits near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, since a deadly cyclone struck in November 2015.

Unconfirmed reports claim that President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi leased the island to the Emiratis for some 99 years before fleeing the country to Riyadh in 2014.

Prior to that, aerial images allegedly showing Emirati military bases on the island were widely shared on social media, causing anger among Yemenis accusing the UAE of attempting to ‘appropriate’ the heritage site.

The UAE, while hosting some 5,000 US troops, is increasingly flexing its own military muscle in the region by opening bases abroad.

Can someone tell the Bedouins you can't train your soldiers in Heaven and expect them to battle in hell.

I can't wait for Somali owned private equity firms to put an end to this in the future. The Somali market is an anarchic and free capilisit entity, the amount of Bedouin investments and concessions that will be null and void as the "Somali Wolf Removes Its Ari Mask" will be an epic tale in our business journals.

 

[mrdeeni]

f*ck it! I'm going to inlist as a reserve to the Somali Army voluntarily for two years. These Blind Bedouins are nervous Puntlands offshore pending siesmic survey will catapult total Somali oil reserves above 3 GCC nations combined. The Shortsided Sand Sniffers think their 99 year lease signed by fleeing masked President won't end up in international courts.





The United Arab Emirates said it has sent military recruits to train in battle skills, weapons training and first aid on Yemen's Socotra island on Monday.

Emirati military recruits are being trained on a Yemeni island, UAE authorities said on Monday, confirming its activities in Socotra after several years of rumours.

The training on Socotra Island, described as "intensive" by the UAE's state-run WAM news agency, includes battle skills, weapons training and first aid.

Socotra, an island 300 miles off the southern coast of Yemen and listed as a UNESCO world heritage site for its unique flora and fauna, has recently been the topic of dispute due to the UAE’s influence on the island.

UAE forces and aid organisations have been on Socotra Island, which sits near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, since a deadly cyclone struck in November 2015.

Unconfirmed reports claim that President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi leased the island to the Emiratis for some 99 years before fleeing the country to Riyadh in 2014.

Prior to that, aerial images allegedly showing Emirati military bases on the island were widely shared on social media, causing anger among Yemenis accusing the UAE of attempting to ‘appropriate’ the heritage site.

The UAE, while hosting some 5,000 US troops, is increasingly flexing its own military muscle in the region by opening bases abroad.

Can someone tell the Bedouins you can't train your soldiers in Heaven and expect them to battle in hell.

I can't wait for Somali owned private equity firms to put an end to this in the future. The Somali market is an anarchic and free capilisit entity, the amount of Bedouin investments and concessions that will be null and void as the "Somali Wolf Removes Its Ari Mask" will be an epic tale in our business journals.

Lets Calm down. In the famous words of the darvish leader about these modern arabs "oh my son the arab are women".

They hire mostly foreign equipment/ people . They are poorly fighters and have a combined population of 9 million with 2 million. Only thing they have is air power/tech.

We wil fight back against these merchants insallah!

 

[Ras]

This is one of the reasons we need to confiscate the island from Yemen. Don't care whether or not a Somali dacas ever stepped foot on it.

It's a security risk plain and simple.

Today it's UAE; tomorrow it's Ethiopia or any other potential rival that's camped out a 100 miles out from our coast and could block our sea routes.

Not sure how we'll do it without the condemnation of the whole world, Bogdanoffs and the martians but it needs to be done. The Socrotans could be a new honorary Somali clan...

 

[Kaleel]

But it's not a Somali island.

 

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Lets Calm down. In the famous words of the darvish leader about these modern arabs "oh my son the arab are women".

They hire mostly foreign equipment/ people . They are poorly fighters and have a combined population of 9 million with 2 million. Only thing they have is air power/tech.

We wil fight back against these merchants insallah!

I had to start the thread like a typical SSpotter with "Benign Blame".


But Seriously

I have been watching their markets closely and things are looking grim for the Emiratis. Ever since Major international banks started fleeing and investors moving their money to safer pastures like Malaysia, Latvia and even Georgia of all places, the Emerites isn't the same as it used to be.

I wouldn't step foot in the that punctured ship if I had a letter of credit backed by gold.

Somalis love to fight, the future will be in the market place not the battlefield young Jedi.

 

[Ras]

But it's not a Somali island.

Blame your ancestors. We should've fixed that mistake a millennium ago.

Sure the Yemenis have all the right to it in the world but we should take it for the same reasons Spain still has a colony in North Africa.

 

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But it's not a Somali island.

The Island is Yemens. Its just concerning since they are so close to our backyard and their national trust fund can buy off Jubbaland if it was signed by the right politician. Every time the Emos do this it spooks many international investors who were attracted by the low tax haven it once was. Those days are over and with the amount of withdrawals taking place, even Africans are moving their money Far East into places like Hong Kong.

 

[Ras]

I had to start the thread like a typical SSpotter with "Benign Blame".


But Seriously

I have been watching their markets closely and things are looking grim for the Emiratis. Ever since Major international banks started fleeing and investors moving their money to safer pastures like Malaysia, Latvia and even Georgia of all places, the Emerites isn't the same as it used to be.

I wouldn't step foot in the that punctured ship if I had a letter of credit backed by gold.

Somalis love to fight, the future will be in the market place not the battlefield young Jedi.

The Arabs still have a chance at a future economy. Everything will be automated soon and UAE has all that's required to export enough to grow their economy; capital and tons of energy to run those machines.

 

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The Arabs still have a chance at a future economy. Everything will be automated soon and UAE has all that's required to export enough to grow their economy; capital and tons of energy to run those machines.

Wait, your not another one of those AI and automation conspiracy theorist are you.lool Somalis will always be cheaper than robots.

They have what they don't want Somalia to have: "A Low Population".

 

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Anyways, I'm off to bed.

Felt the urge to post this.

I'm going back on my hiatus. I wonder what @Inquisitive_ has to say about this. LooL

 

[Ras]

Wait, your not another one of those AI and automation conspiracy theorist are you.lool Somalis will always be cheaper than robots.

They have what they don't want Somalia to have: "A Low Population".

Lol I don't know what you mean. Automation already exists in today's factories and they call it the 4th industrial revolution. Not this AI singularity bs.

Within 10 years most the jobs in those sweat jobs will be gone so Somalia can't go through the route countries like China and Japan did when industrialising.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/30...s-automation-apple-iphone-china-manufacturing

Everything from light manufacturing (clothing, food processing) to highly technical factories will be replaced with "lights out fabs" (no lights because no humans need it).

So a large poor population is useless here unless you only plan to use older tech to produce for a domestic market and be super protectionist (an option).

Otherwise; all you need is capital to buy the automation tools and a lot of energy to run them; which the UAE has plenty off.

 

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Lol I don't know what you mean. Automation already exists in today's factories and they call it the 4th industrial revolution. Not this AI singularity bs.

Within 10 years most the jobs in those sweat jobs will be gone so Somalia can't go through the route countries like China and Japan did when industrialising.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/30...s-automation-apple-iphone-china-manufacturing

Everything from light manufacturing (clothing, food processing) to highly technical factories will be replaced with "lights out fabs" (no lights because no humans need it).

So a large poor population is useless here unless you only plan to use older tech to produce for a domestic market and be super protectionist (an option).

Otherwise; all you need is capital to buy the automation tools and a lot of energy to run them; which the UAE has plenty off.

I don't care for the UAE. I'm just concerned about what this 99 year lease will look like in 20 years.

As far as automation, Somalia needs hard hats and steal toe boots--not people wearing suits and button up shirts unemployed.

Wait! How they hell did this thread get to Automation?

 

[Ras]

I don't care for the UAE. I'm just concerned about what this 99 year lease will look like in 20 years.

As far as automation, Somalia needs hard hats and steal toe boots--not people wearing suits and button up shirts unemployed.

Wait! How they hell did this thread get to Automation?

You inferred that the UAE will be broke soon which I tried to explain that it isn't necessary so. By the way if you ever talk macro economics in the near future... you're discussing automation.

 

[Prince Abubu]

But it's not a Somali island.

It doesn't belong to Arabs either. The island has an indigenous population. Plus, it's much closer to Somalia than anywhere else.

 

[mrdeeni]

I had to start the thread like a typical SSpotter with "Benign Blame".


But Seriously

I have been watching their markets closely and things are looking grim for the Emiratis. Ever since Major international banks started fleeing and investors moving their money to safer pastures like Malaysia, Latvia and even Georgia of all places, the Emerites isn't the same as it used to be.

I wouldn't step foot in the that punctured ship if I had a letter of credit backed by gold.

Somalis love to fight, the future will be in the market place not the battlefield young Jedi.

I was looking for you mr Punt ! I emailed the professor who gave you that presentation about building up your region.

He sent me a nice email as i am going back to Gedo for small engineering projects.

As for the Emiratis your right also the reason they are very worried about Qatar is because how successful they diversified their economy.

 

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You inferred that the UAE will be broke soon which I tried to explain that it isn't necessary so. By the way if you ever talk macro economics in the near future... you're discussing automation.

The upcoming market correction is going to gut thier economy. First it was the oil and then it will be the banks again. Their tourism industry isn't going to save them from this one; and Islamic Banking sector is getting pulverized by the Malaysians Year over Year.

All this sudden need to diversify into desperate markets like Somalia is a tell tail sign on how deep the liquidity lies are.

They need to focus on the little never neverland they built for 1.4 million Emeratis. If it includes robots that serve Peta bread so be it. But they need to stop believing the Burj Khalifia being completed in (X years) will compensate for thier absence from Persian gulf for 5000 years.

 

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I was looking for you mr Punt ! I emailed the professor who gave you that presentation about building up your region.

He sent me a nice email as i am going back to Gedo for small engineering projects.

As for the Emiratis your right also the reason they are very worried about Qatar is because how successful they diversified their economy.

Gedo has massive iron ore deposits and will become the structure that holds Somalia.

 

[Ras]

The upcoming market correction is going to gut thier economy. First it was the oil and then it will be the banks again. Their tourism industry isn't going to save them from this one; and Islamic Banking sector is getting pulverized by the Malaysians Year over Year.

All this sudden need to diversify into desperate markets like Somalia is a tell tail sign on how deep the liquidity lies are.

They need to focus on the little never neverland they built for 1.4 million Emeratis. If it includes robots that serve Peta bread so be it. But they need to stop believing the Burj Khalifia being completed in (X years) will compensate for thier absence from Persian gulf for 5000 years.

I didn't bring up the Jetsons and robot maids.

Their energy reserves will always keep them going. Expect to see a lot of energy intensive production plants like Aluminium and processes later on in the value chain of those products like cars. They've already started:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econo.../File:United_Arab_Emirates_Export_Treemap.png

Unlike Saudi Arabia; their citizens are happy and well educated to some extent and loss of oil revenues won't turn their country into chaos.

UAE will be around and so will the other GCC states apart from the Saud dynasty & maybe the Bahrain ruling family.

 

[Inquisitive_]

“Whoever attains maritime supremacy in the Indian Ocean would be a prominent player on the international scene.” (US Navy Geostrategist Rear Admiral Alfred Thayus Mahan (1840-1914))


The USSR during the cold war had military presence on Socotra Island (which they increased after Barre became unreliable to them) they tried this again around 2010 (when no one else showed interest) but the USA foiled the deal with Yemen this time through the classic engineered Arab spring against the leader that made the deal with Russia.

However the recent renewed interest to militarise it again has to do with the Chinese silk road in the Horn of Africa, the UAE is nothing more then a toothless extension of the US military industrial complex, hence the desperation in trying to acquire as many ports as they can as well as maritime dominance in the region (their survivable is dependant on this, it's game over if they don't)

The US special forced are deeply embedded with them in Socotra whom run the show along with Eric Prince black water mercenaries who is based in Dubai and runs various illegal paramilitary operations in the region. The UAE by itself is toothless hence the proposed Berbera base will really be glorified USA mercenary base composed of several nations.

In my opinion these kind of activities are good for the region because it brings more investments to Somalia elevating it's geostrategic importance that was dead ever since the USSR collapse. The China-Turkey-Qatar-Russia-Iran axis are all in opposition against the US-UAE-SAUDI-ISRAELI axis in the region (more $$$)

A good leader can use these events to make Somalia prosper which is already happening, we were at our best when you had the USSR Vs USA cold war, the world then had a choice between Washington consensus or Warsaw pact, the death of USSR brought about the death of many nations, for decades there was only a singular choice (Washington) not anymore today.

The danger however has now shifted from almost officially becoming an abject debased Ethiopian colony to now the real threat of engineered proxy conflict in the region by the outsiders, that's the only risk that comes with this.

The problem for Somaliland is the spoiler block of UAE/USA/SAUDI they blindly gone to bed with only offer hot cash with plenty of conditionalities and don't really build anything like the Chinese/Turks, the spoiler by his very nature is only interested in destruction/subversion not development.

So yes I agree, this is the greatest time for entrepreneurs and business people, I am already seeing an explosion of this on the ground ever since the Turks built vital infrastructure to facilitate this, in the end everything they invest ultimately will belong to Somali's much like Somaliland is today milking Berbera port built by the USSR etc.

 

[Thegoodshepherd]

Wait, your not another one of those AI and automation conspiracy theorist are you.lool Somalis will always be cheaper than robots.

They have what they don't want Somalia to have: "A Low Population".

http://theguardian.com/sustainable-...-economic-growth-poorer-countries-africa-asia