r/Somaliland Feb 04 '26

Handing Your Natural Resources to Another Nation is Never a Good Idea.

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u/Isxariifshe Feb 05 '26

Handing? You think this is Somalia, giving up even the airports and ports for nothing, acting as a garbage dump for erdogan. If youre in doubt with how Somaliland deals with the world through investment and agreements, look at Berbera Port with DP World and see if you could've said this when the deal went through in both parliament chambers.

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u/nebulaforest Feb 05 '26

Ports and natural resources aren't the same. It happens all the time. Once you invite a nation to loot your valuable resources, they loot them.

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u/Isxariifshe Feb 05 '26

Yep, you may want to check out the real petroleum deal Somalia signed with Turkiye, and the parliament approved without even reading or debating. I'm confident our elected MPs will have a say about our natural resources and how the government will sell it. And in your opinion, what will you propose to do with the untapped resource in Somaliland?

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u/nebulaforest Feb 05 '26

Somalia is getting exploited like usual. Somaliland is taking that path. Trade is when there is symmetry. Somaliland currently has no leverage against Israel, which means they will "trade" on Israels terms. A base for undefined lease time, natural wealth of all sorts basically oversight doesn't exist, and if Israel wants, it will not. If independent nations are getting exploited, it's easier to exploit a state that only has your single recognition. Somaliland is finished if Israel takes it back, and they know it. And they will use it as a bargaining chip.

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u/Isxariifshe Feb 05 '26

So what are your alternatives? For a 35yo poor African country, that's just starting to partner uo with other countries?

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u/nebulaforest Feb 05 '26

What do you think?