Somaliland’s Dirty Breakup 🪂 🤸‍♀️ Horny for Independence

About this episode

The episode discusses Somaliland's quest for statehood and recognition in the context of its geopolitical significance.

Somaliland, by all measures, fulfill the standards of statehood, so why has only one country, Israel, recognized them? And is UN recognition on the horizon? Unlike “Palestine,” Somaliland has defined borders, a democratic government, and a standing military. So why has the world yet to recognize them as a state? Today we learn all out Somaliland, it’s geopolitics, economy and history to better understand this potentially quite strategic African nation. In this live conversation, military expert Andrew Fox joins A Paratrooper And A Yogi Walk Into A Bar cohost, Shana Meyerson, for a live update from Somaliland on their 35th Liberation Day. Andrew Fox is a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and cohost of The Brink Podcast. He served for 16 years in the British Army, leaving the Parachute Regiment with the rank of Major. He completed 3 tours in Afghanistan including one attached to US Army Special Forces, as well as further tours of Bosnia, Northern Ireland and the Middle East. He was a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, teaching in the War Studies and Behavioural Science departments. In the last year he has visited Gaza twice as well as Hezbollah…

People in this episode

Host: Shana Meyerson

Guest: Andrew Fox

Topics covered

• Somaliland
• geopolitics
• statehood
• independence
• military
• economy
• history

Keywords

• Somaliland
• statehood
• geopolitics
• independence
• military
• economy
• Liberation Day

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Henry Jackson Society, The Brink Podcast, GB News, TalkTV, LBC, The Spectator, The Sun, The Daily Telegraph, New York Post, The Tablet

Places: Somaliland, Israel

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