

If Israel hadn’t recognized them, would Somaliland be that bad? They do seem to operate mostly independently from Somalia. They have an actually functioning government, their security situation is better, and self determination seems an important value.




Vice News covered this more than a decade ago in “This Is What Winning Looks Like.” They literally filmed a conversation where a US soldier tried to explain to an Afghan police chief why raping children was bad. His response was “who else are we going to fuck?”