u/JustAnotherSLander

Recognition is inching closer, and it's arriving tangled in bases, normalisation, and great-power deals. Everyone wants the flag. But every yes has a price tag. What's the one thing Somaliland should refuse to trade for it — and who gets to decide that?

Livestock is 60–70% of Somaliland's exports, and most of it goes to Saudi Arabia. One disease scare or one political spat and the Gulf slams the door — it has happened before, and it cost hundreds of millions. Do we diversify the export, diversify the buyer, or build the quarantine and traceability that make a ban impossible? And why are we stuck in this medieval position 100 years behind other countries?