Morning friends
There was a small incident an hour ago off the coast of Somaliland near The Arabian peninsula where a Chinese warship(unknown which one at the time) entered into Somaliland territorial waters. It was quickly turned around once the coast guard came in
Not sure what the bigger surprise here is.
>the Taiwan conflict might start over Somaliland
or
>the PLAN was chased off by Somaliland's coast guard
This timeline is nutty man.
I mean if china started shelling Somaliland tomorrow what would Happen M
Probably nothing. In clownworld, the US recognizes Somaliland and starts running them guns.
It's somolialand the relatively nonshithole, slightly democratic one? We should try cozying up to them, especially if they are with taiwan
Somaliland has a modern-ish military unlike Somalia, probably not a good idea to provoke them
Well, what happened the last time a Chinese military force saw action in the region?
...oh.
What happened the last 1000 times a Chinese military force saw action in any region?
Pirates ran off.
You know china has been patrolling gulf of aden for a while, right?
the chinese communication (and also russian) is that the west are evil colonizers. IF they start blowing up africans and killing them, actually wagner is already doing this, the "global south" support will fade away and china will only have russian, NK and iran as friends
that webm is the most cringe shit I've seen all day. and I fricking hate putin
china is guaranteed to lose reputation, which it hates doing. This likely interferes with belt and road and any sort of cooperation with other countries in the future.
high possibility of light-moderate economic sanctions. Unlike russia, China actually need oil and fertilizer imports and depends on product export which you cant hide with a pipeline, so this will be very painful to them.
decent possibility of covert american somaliland support.
>Vice Preznit of new country leads diplomatic-combat action against hegemonic threat
Impressive.
>when you, an American, have to go fight in Japan and Taiwan because a Chinese ship attacked Somaliland
I'm sure it was an accident, you know how asian drivers are
>you know how asian drivers are
do Asian drivers have the same reputation in Africa as they do in America? Pretty funny if true
Asians are involved in less fatal and non-fatal vehicular accidents in America than any group.
only because blacks are 5x more likely to die in traffic
who was the one that rammed a tanker again?
Goddamn why is Somaliland so based?
Reminder
Somaliland only has 1 real ship and 5 fast attack boats
That's what they sent to stop the ship
Why is that little boat crewed by 100+ sailors? Is it's main weapon getting close to the enemy and having a horde Somalis overwhelm the target?
victory by overloading your enemy's welfare system
It's ..a photo op
Most ships look like this
Also here's the entire Somaliland navy
Also Somaliland does have anti ship missiles
A p15 termite here and there
That thing looks older than my father.
Yeah they're from the 60s
why does it have two wienerpits? is that one a trainer?
If the first suicide pilot chickens out, the second one is supposed to take over.
More tonnage than the Royal Navy based on that photo
Lmao
Hey man when you got no money and are under constant attack you make due with what you have
Oh hey there's some popping going off near my house how do I tell if it's a gunshot vs just harmless firecrackers because they're very oddly infrequent
Update it was gunshots
If you have a population of experienced pirates, why not pirate your enemy's warships?
Well this strategy has proven extremely effective against Europe so... yes?
It's the most functioning and cohesive part of Somalia proper and understandably wants nothing to do with the rest of that shitheap.
The reason most nations refuse to recognize somaliland (besides the whole separatist implications) is that Somaliland is too successful and it wouldn't be fair to the rest of Somalia.
Nah it's pretty much entirely the whole "we shouldn't encourage people to just break away and form their own countries, it's not good for global stability to normalize that" part
Type 55 Destroyer VS 50 Armoured Skiffs operated by Somalis on Khat, who wins? It's a close call in all honesty, could go either way
>chinks pissing themselves the moments the BIG AFRIKAN BVLL appears
many such cases
Hell yeah somaliland
Somaliland continues to be the most based state in the entirety of East Africa
China has a naval base in neighboring Djibouti. If Taiwan had balls they should embolden Somaliland’s military capabilities through training and funding. Building up Somaliland’s drone and and coast guard capabilities would be very beneficial given that Somaliland and Ethiopia are very close to china and the fact that Djibouti is in a tug-of-war match between the US and china camps.
Also hats off to Somaliland coast guard. China’s warship was most likely there for non-accidental reasons, either to test the waters to have their vast fishing fleets deplete fish stocks for china’s population or for bullying on behalf of Mogadishu.
Either way, a small group of bots that are less well armed than navies of landlocked states standing up for their country against a a naval ship that probably has more firepower than their entire country takes balls.
Taiwan has non combat troops deployed already to Somaliland and does offer them equipment
Not much beyond that
I want somaliland to be a dumping ground of weapons and equipment that Taiwan no longer needs. I want a Taiwan overseas base there. I want Somaliland to develop and export its oil and natural gas resources. I want more and more.
It needs to be memed into a regional power. If the world recognizes fricking Kosovo then it should have no qualms about a breakaway African state that operates Pizza Hut.
Yes
Yes.
somaliland je taiwan
Ja
Investing in Africa is stupid, one revolt and all your millions either flee or are stolen
Respect to Somaliland. I'm glad there are nations still worthy, like Somaliland, Taiwan and Ukraine.
I love these guys. Every time I see them on /k/ they’re doing something incredibly based
Yup
Some German guy visited somalilands pizza hut and took some photos of the countries captial and all the new things it has
Looks like 1992 Boston suburbs
It's not that bad.
Chinese
Chinese
Chinese
Chinese
>WE WUZ BRACKS AND XIIIET
This is the second time China's been spooked off by poorly armed spooks.
it's amazing that China is constantly shilled as a near peer and mere moments away from doing... SOMETHING!
Then gets btfo by some rag tag group of people in some tiny mutual meeting agreement.
They have the numbers and hardware but no fight in them at all. grim!
China's using Africa for live fire training exercises. Its army and navy have never been blooded by fighting people so they're practicing on Africans.
If anybody in that "coast guard" got shirty about it the chinks would have opened up just to test their missiles.
They think ahead, they know their military is unproven, and they're fixing that bit by bit.
Implessive by shooting this Black person with a quantum hyperstealth changray boolit China is are ushering in a new peaceful multipolar world in stark contrast to the depredations of the capitalist west. And transforming Hong Kong from a vibrant hub of international trade and commerce to a real part of mainland China. Remember. We watch your kids on TokTok so be nice.
Like in Sudan right?
>new Type 55 gets taken over by literal Somali pirates
>China using Africa as a practice.
So as a Chinese, I can't wait for our new African Warlords taking over
>Its army and navy have never been blooded by fighting people so they're practicing on Africans.
This is like practicing for a boxing match by beating up a moronic crippled kid. Except it gets worse since, like the other Anon said there's a good chance that they'll get their shit pushed in and humiliated, which makes you the guy who got the shit kicked out of and his shoes stolen by a moronic crippled kid.
We need to bring back Sea Sheperd or whale pirates to stop the Chinese in the Indian Ocean. Would make for some killer TV. Western hippies smart motivated zero experience teamed with African troops fricking with chi coms.
>We need to bring back Sea Sheperd
I wish. Watching these morons get blown to pieces by the PLAN would be the one time I'd actualyl cheer on the chinks.
The hatch is clenching. Everyone knows LiveLeak.
Thank you for your absolutely based news report; I greet information from this part of the world with far more enthusiasm than vatnik trench drones
Reminder that Somalialand is the most independent country in the world because no nation recognizes its existence, yet it continues to exist.
It’s recognized by Taiwan, which is also a universally unrecognized state.
I think we need to fit the Republic of Artsakh and Sea Land into this equation as well.
Maybe create a UN or EU equivalent for small unrecognized nations. They would make a great economic bloc that rivals the world.
Yup
I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm say the only source for this seems to be from one Somalialand official. There's been more than one incident out of there that ended up being absolute bunk; maybe a little more wait and see before all the gloating and victory marches.
Pretty funny IF it did happen though. Kind of reminds me of the Irish airforce in WW2.
how are they so good at running away?
*tsk tsk tsk* no no no you no come here
Where’s the picture of the Chinese warship?
Somaliland is full of shit.
>Somaliland
It's an imaginary country just like Taiwan and Ukraine.
Wait is that a swedish flag on the boat?
The meme magic is real
>Markab dagaal oo Shiine ah, iska bax naftaada