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Important to whom ships can take a detour to South & dock to South Africa get suppliers & move on which is safer but little longer as they use to in the past.
I really love your channel can you do a series on China 🇨🇳 strategically buying farmland in the US (near military bases) and if this could be potential war on our territory??? Dr. phill did a show on it but I would love to get information from you
Love the practice to pronounce Qatar. Pretty unfair to china, if the don't showup they are lazy and piggy backing west and if they show up they are the bad guy, come on
Colonial mindset back at it saving the people of Djibouti with freedom. You're part of the same brainwashing western media. Not one mention of deaths in Palestine or Yemen by the US. Great Geopolitics. One sided narrative and the irony with AD.
As an American, there are places in America that I wouldn't even be able to find on a map. 😂🤦♂️ Let's not act like it's only an American thing though. It's a big ass planet! (I wonder how many places the North Koreans could find? 🤔) At least we still have our freedom for whatever that's worth.
As a djiboutien citizen we don’t have a say about who coming to the land or leaving its all done behind closed doors. The population is not even aware what is going on around them.
@@rewardharawa2680I’d instead look at Singapore. This is literally the most comparable yet so different country there is. Singapore has so many similarities and was poor just few decades ago. Focusing on bringing investors instead of just foreign armies should be the goal. But it sadly does need the foreign armies as Djibouti’s army cannot fight off its neighbours and doesn’t have programs to train every citizen like Spore or Korea does.
People often forget that more than 90% of all the foreign trade is through shipments. These routes and canals are literally what's connecting the world into one giant market.
@@Ficmon You mean western world. "Global trade" The houthis made their statement very clear they're stopping trade from western terror!sts. Stop the Genocide.
I was born and raised in Djibouti . Growing up we were so used to Americans or French fighters jets taking off a couple of miles from our high school that the teachers had to pause the lesson for a couple of minutes because you couldn’t hear the person sitting next to you. I moved by myself to the US in my early 20’s and been losing sleep at night knowing that my loved ones are over there and if shit goes south tomorrow there is nothing I can do about it. Shoutout to you Johnny for shining some light on my home country. Appreciate it Sir
You know it's all for narrative show, right? He's not actually learning this shit for the first time on-camera. Sorry to ruin the movie magic for you 🤷♀️
@@neanda They did though, he doesn't spend that long looking at maps. You aren't seeing some sort of cutdown highlights reel of revelations he has while looking at maps. You are seeing him look at maps for the exact same number of seconds as he does in the real world. Are you dense???
Heard of Dijouboti for the first time from someone who was a cook on a merchant ship. It was one of their routine stops for shore leave, and where every major country has a presence.
As someone from Djibouti, if I give my thoughts on foreign military presence, it's quite intimidating seeing these military bases with their soldiers armed right on roads and along side beaches in the middle of the city, where we commute in our daily life. We do hear quite often jet fighters with their bursting sounds as well. But it seems that we've adapted to it.
@ebenezermarboh5849 well, since the huge rents that the Chinese, US, Italians, Japanese, and French pay goes directly into the pocket of the President, his family and friends, they're crap.
I had a friend who was stationed there years ago. I asked him “what was it like?” His response: “it was boring, but hey we needed to be there just incase things get crazy.”
Exactly. Without the U.S. military protecting those shipping lanes, the entire global economy is threatened. Which is why Americans wonder why the rest of the world is upset that the United States is the world's police...
@zuesadam7143 thing is... it is hard to do well...when the biggest economies nd strongest armies are conspiring against us... as a very simple example.... the British divided the somali lands... thus ensuring centuries of conflict...
When I was in middle school I was in a soccer camp where we would pick a country to play as in a world cup tournament, I convinced my team to pick "Djibouti" and made shorts with "Djibouti" written across the butt of our shorts. Might have been a bit insensitive but I was in middle school and I stand by it was a funny gag.
@@johnnyharris why is google translating a misspelling of laugh out loud? I fig you are going laugh out loud loud loud but google is like "want to see what this word is in English? I click on it and it's just LOL and I'm like "wait...what langue is lolll for lol?* did google stroke out?
I’m sure they love their western overlords who they never interact with and only see in spacecraft 😂 especially since they became so rich from it! (sarcasm btw)
@@MansaMusa_ll_of_Timbuktuokay "Mansa Muss". Since you obviously haven't made it out of Mali yet, let's help you out. China and Japan are in Asia - "the East". They aren't "Western.". As for your implication that they are being guverned by foreign powers, well ... No. They would be very weak and vulnerable without the partnerships with foreign powers. They have essentially no agricultural ability or natural resources. So, it's obviously a good deal for them. What is the alternative? Alliances with Arabia with it's political instability and Islamists? Warring Ethiopia and Eritrea? Somalia? The Sultan would be smart if he reinvested that foreign money to develop a modern economy in the style of the UAE or Singapore.
When I was in Merchant Navy, our company was chartered to supply raw materials to a small island right next to Yemen and beside Djibouti which is hardly 12 nautical Miles. Its called Mayyun Island. Back in 2017 it was bought out by Saudi and UAE to build a port and an Airforce base, so it all makes sense now. and that small portion of passage is called Chickens Neck.
I’m from Djibouti, my grandfathers family owned many plots of land that the current US Military Base sits on. The government in Djibouti forced us to sell it. Since many of you can’t comprehend an extension of the base let me explain, Camp Lemonnier was always there. There was an expansion in 2006 that lead many civilians selling their land back to the Djibouti Government so they can lease it to the Americans. Crazy how a concept of expansion of a military base is hard to believe. Djibouti is about the size of New Jersey, with about 3/4ths of that being habitable and suitable for human life. It’s the lowest point in Africa and one of the lowest in the world, yet a commentator wants to believe that Djibouti is a Greenland, which is comical as hell. I have notarized documents of the sale from 2006. I also find it hilarious that the other Somalis in the comments have no issue with this statement because is known amongst our people. Some random buttfock in Arkansas wants to tell me the story of grandfathers inherited land is quite hilarious.
But I bet it was for more money than it would regulary sell. It is the same every where. Government want to build new road ? Someone will be forced to sell some land
@@DrIstoriswhich means what? "Oh, well you got money out of it," but you've also lost all your productive ability that was tied to that land. Can't use it for herding, can't use it for farming. Sustained revenues? Gone. Supporting ones self? Not anymore.
At 2:13 Johnny says that Djibouti is home to 'Japan's only foreign Military base by the way' and 'China's first base military base outside of its country'. Isn't that strange? both of these nations have precisely 1 external military base, but japan's is treated as an aside, whereas China's is treated like the first step (presumably to increase in future?). I am not sure, perhaps there are plans for china to build more foreign military bases, but the discrepancy in language here is notable to me.
Why am I American and knew about it? Also i find it funny how alot of you find any chance you get to say something about Americans, you guys must think about us alot😂
@@faizanzeya8261 they do. It's serviced by Djibouti Telecom and when I was there I believe they were just starting to get 3G back in 2012 if I recall. They've got tons of shops in the markets with smart phones. I had a basic Nokia phone through them as well as an internet connection they ran on base that was terribly unreliable but greatly appreciated. Djibouti Telecom was getting some serious developments when I left, including their data center with a lot of new fiber networks.
@@yashwanthchoudary8302 we don’t benefit from it whatsoever. Only the president and his ppl take everything. If someone tries to overthrow the government the west will immediately come in and stop the ppl who want good for us. I left the country but I visit quite often. I believe if we get great relationship with Russia and China they will benefit us more than the west. The west influence in the world is reducing so I just hope we get rid of these greedy ppl including the current puppet government. We have the same puppet president since 1999 that says a lot about the situation
Imagine having world superpowers in your country and you're still poor and you don't have cities like Singapore or Hong Kong, world class education etc. Jesus Christ, is Africa Cursedd??? I'm sad and Mad at Djibouti. Africa is never at the deciding table but rather at the bottom of the receiving end every time. Why???😢😢
Why?? Basically very simple, the colonisation of Africa has never ended, just because it ended "officially. Look at the mines in DR Congo or the farmers of cocoa beans and you basically already know everything.
@@Alltagundso djbouti also literally has is colonial borders just like somaliland and its just getting bullied by all foreign powers. As a somali person myself (from somaliland) im so pissed that our leaders are all after short term gain and not uniting under our somali heritage. -djbouti is under a dictatorship which doesnt care about its people -somaliland is in a cival war (and of course its about clans and tribes) -somali is corrupt and has to deal with terrorist -ethopia occupied ogaden and the kenyian somalis seem to not give a fuck about the rest of the somalis we have been divided and conquered and all we care about is fighting within ourselves. If all somalis united to form one greater somali we would be able to deal with these foreign invaders but that will never happen.
I'm surprised Johnny didn't mention the Somalia/Somaliland/Ethiopia tensions directly related to their landlocked problem. Somaliland is granting sea access and a land corridor to Ethiopia in exchange for a piece of Ethiopian Airlines and recognition of Somaliland as an independent state. This pissed off Somalia because it doesn't recognize Somaliland as independent. It's big deal and involves UAE and Eretria. He should have at least mentioned it.
Ethiopia is clearly in the wrong and they are exploiting Somalia’s weakness. When somalia gets its shit together the first thing they will do is march to somaliland and start putting people against the wall
@@DavidBock1 Ethiopia 🇪🇹 or breakaway region can’t do anything without Mogadishu making Ethiopia 🇪🇹 eastern front boxing oromo regime to disappear so-called (somaliland) aka former British colony already lost 2 regions in east and will lose more territory to unionist forces.
@@DavidBock1because that deal is bs lol no country recognizes sonaliland it has as much power as that fake country in Nevada desert that a man claims to be a country sonaliland is and will always be a region of somalia they get funding from Mogadishu and somalis controls the airspace and the sea. Also the eastern and western regions of somaliland are both unionist Google khatumo state and awdal state of somalia if you aren't familiar. It was a pathetic attempt for Ethiopia so people don't notice the genocide he is commiting in amahra region now after killing a million tigrayans. Also Ethiopia is bankrupt and isn't able to make their minimum debt repayment
I spent 15 months stationed in Djibouti on Camp Lemonier. We went into town all the time. There is a motorpool that you can just check out a vehicle to drive downtown.
What's even more interesting is When djibouti kick out the UAE, they moved to somaliland, then they formed an alliance with Ethiopia. Ethiopia signed an MoU to recognise somaliland. This created a political tension between Ethiopia and Somalia. Somalia called it's ally turkey to protect it's waters. Taiwan is also a friend of somaliland. There is too much going on in this area .
Its simple somalis are somaliland, somalia, djibouti. Afar are from eritrea they have nothing to do in djibouti. they were no majority until the french brought them in masses. and ethopia only cares for ethopia, not to mention ethopia has big internal issues itself. somalis need to unite and beat the terrorists only then will the horn of Africa be a new African superpower who can protect its border against forgein influence.
Hey Johnny, I just want to congratulate your and your team for doing such an incredible job. You explain complex topics with splendid visualizations. I just wish I had a geography teacher like you :) Thank you
I’m from that little tiny country ,proud for the achievements we made it. In 2000’s,Being young i didn’t know how important my country is when nobody knows it. I was just waiting you to give a look at the most geostrategical land .we need to be smart in this geopolitical complex thing.
FYI the film "Beau Travail" takes place in Djibouti from the perspective of a French légionnaire. It's not about the geopolitics but it gives a closer look. Check out the trailer.
Unlike American, China actually developed while America wanted to control total. After October 7, 2023, American politicians had been exposed as international terrorist....
This was a fascinating JH video for sure. Wonderfully explanatory tool around crucial geopolitics with really beautiful map explainers. Looking forward to a future sequel where you actually go to Djibouti!
UAE was kicked out by Djibouti from their port. So they made a rival port in Somaliland at the coastal town of Berbera. UAE plans to develop this port and deviate all of Djibouti's transit traffic there. This has created tension between Somaliland and Djibouti.
@@uhohhotdog Berbera is less than 240 Km east of Djibouti. It actually comes before Djibouti if the ships are coming in from Gulf of Aden into Bab-Al Mandab Strait. If Berbera is developed enough, shipping lines can start using it as a transshipment port before entering the Red Sea.
First "sponser section" in a video I didn't skip through, Ground News may even be the 1st recommended app I download, thx Johnny, your fast becoming my "Mark Felton" for contemporary events.
Who analyzes the biases of Ground News, or fact checks them? The idea of "both sides" is a core logical fallacy used by many so-called news sources. A large portion of commercial media exists to draw audiences to advertising, with a fair number of companies distributing a variety of products intended to hit silo demographics, with any news content purely secondary. The Dems over recent decades have moved from mid-right and fascist, to extremist under HRC and since, sometimes to the right of GOP. Media largely ignores true left using a global scale like Political Compass, in order to play propaganda fronts for corporate predators and government backers. Some entities like Associated Press as nonprofit shells of members, without overt bias as with man other organizations like CNN or RRR fronts, but with a spectrum of biases reflecting byproducts of mediocre universities, and cult camp styles many of them indoctrinate on unaware victims who become reporters employed at AP member stations. Even ignoring the reasons Johnny should know well where "it's more complicated than a simple binary", left-right spectrums at best merge economic and religious/social ideas in ways that often don't equate well.
How insensitive of you to claim that it was the French that cut through the Suez canal? Yes it was a French idea, but executed solely by Egyptians. Many of whom had died in the tens of thousands. Your small soundbite discredits the sacrifices made by all those who died diggings while the French "management" was an onlooker.
It's not subjective.... He ignored many facts regarding the reasons and what's really happening. I think he ignored many facts intentionaly to avoid Zionist attacks and censorship by Zionists lobby. Or maybe he is just a Zionist )
It's not objective, he ignored many facts regarding the reason behind what's happening and what's really happening.. Afraid of Ziоnisт attacks and censorship on his channel.... But I've feeling he's a Ziоnisт)
Great video - thank you. The tension between Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti over access to Red Sea ports is interesting and scary in itself. A video dedicated to that would be great before any sort of conflict breaks out.
Truth be told ethiopia deserves a port , Eritrea took all the port and blocked ethiopia from getting anything for decades , and Djibouti charges extreme tax , When there is a literal agreement signed between french n Italian colonisers to lease a port from ethiopian kingdom 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 we hv like documents to prove that
@@rebbybam230 Ethiopia doesn't deserve anything. Countries don't get to take others land because they feel like it. Also Ethiopia is a colonizer country as well.
So what did this excellent journalism inform you about and what political action has it inspired or just lip service? You know what knowledge is? It's information that elicits action based on objective morality and a send if justice.
This is the high quality editing style that are synonymous with your videos, a night and day difference from the last video with all that distracting clicking asmr. Well done
I have an ex gf that was a navy secret squirrel stationed in Bahrain about 2007 but was tasked setting things up in Dijbotie . She said it was horrible and stunk. Many locals had leporsey, starvation, no sanitation and general epic poverty.
I was deployed to Djibouti from 2012-2013. Djibouti is the hottest inhabitated place on Earth. 130°F in summer with high humidity. We could still go to the city when we were there. A carton of Marlboro Reds costs $5 us dollars. You could buy anything in the market. People were for sale, too. Things have changed, Im sure. But Djibouti was one big ash tray.
China is not the only nation that builds infrastructures that puts countries in debts. Also, the World Bank, which is not even a country but a private entity, builds NOTHING, and still has countries in debt due to it's miserable lending policies. Furthermore, China as of recent does a lot of these loans through BRICS. FURTHERMORE the UAE has joined BRICS in order to cool down issues with any interests China has in Africa. Don't get me wrong, I don't condone China's methods in anyway. It is just interesting how you throw shade at China saying 'as China does' which is horribly hypocritical if you ask me....considering....
Agreed! First of all, fantastic video as usual Johnny. But you really giving out the American in you with the “i want America to stay on top of world cause that’s more stable and overall better for the planet thanks” I mean… stability for who? Depends who you ask. All these ‘enemies’ didn’t surge just out of their own greed. America made a lot of enemies in the process. The bias is very clear, but other than that, great content ! Thanks for sharing, it was very well produced and informative.
i love how serious this man takes himself even his thumbnails are him pulling all sorts of serious faces into the camera with red circles and arrows pointing to a map lmao
oh lord, you really presented this one so well Harris, having come from kenya i know even understood into grain detail and imortance of this nation Djbouti
@@johnnyharris "a group of had working creative people...." Johnny, clearly you work REALLY hard as well, I mean, that caffeine intake (and possibly sleep deprivation) is screwing with your spelling you a jumpy boi rn, hence fitting the stereotype of hyper energetic conspiracy theorists the difference is that you're pretty much right 100 percent of the time As for your team, they really are amazing this is really good stuff man, you're criminally underrated, I hope you, your team, and your channel, live really long and really, really healthy lives
Djibouti is perhaps the most fascinating country in the modern world. It's really small, and if you put it over the United States it's actually still really small. But why does the majority of the population of this fascinating country live in the capital city, also named Djibouti. In fact, half of all Djiboutians live in this single area. Well the answer to my clickbait title and thumbnail that I will change later, is that the country is actually an inhospitable salt desert. And there is a fxking volcano in the middle, which is shxttty if you're trying to live. Now that the reason you clicked on this comment has been answered, I'm going to steal the next 30 minutes of your life to give you a sometimes well researched, if not a bit simplistic overview of this nations geopolitical landscape, its history and to be honest, whatever else I feel like talking about so I can extend the length of this comment. And don't worry, even though this comment is about Djibouti, I'll somehow figure out a way to talk about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea for some reason, and of course everyone's favorite Taiwan. Because, dear viewer, in church of Real Life Lore, this-this is our holy trinity, that we pray to when in need for content. But lets be honest we both know that as long as I keep this high quality stock footage rolling, this voice serious and monotone, you'll believe anything I say as I slowly hypnotize you with my high production quality and before you know it, 30 minutes of your concious experience will be mine forever, and you'll be injecting my exclusive nebula and curiosity stream videos directly into your bloodstream like the loyal viewer you are. Djibouti lies at the center of one of the most geographically important areas of the planet, only beaten by the worlds most important location, Bouvet Island, noted for its lack of league of legends and hearts of iron 4 players. Djibouti's unique geographic positioning in the horn of africa makes it a soft power wielding heavy weight in the region. It is vital to controlling the international flow of nebula and curiosity stream subscriptions, states all over the world, especially in europe are forced by geography to have an interest in the small strait that acts as a choke point for commerce. Even in Djibouti's local neighborhood, it's positioning is essential for its much larger, land locked neighbor Ethiopia, who relies on Djibouti for access to the sea so it can import curiosity stream subscriptions. No wonder then why so many nations have military bases in this small but critical part of the world. But if we're truly going to understand this topic with more depth, then we have to travel back in time to the initial western migration of turkic tribes from central asia to what we would call the middle east and beyond. These many different turkic tribes would go on to create empires and states of their own, but the one relevant to our story traveled all the way across central asia and established a medieval rump state of their own. Which, although was a small part of the larger turkish world, would go on to become the ottoman empire, a massive entity spanning 3 continents based in constantinople. But what lied ahead of constantinople was the european portion of the ottoman empire, and much of the population here were christians who didn't like being under the rule of the muslim turks. This would become a major source of unrest in the region, meanwhile the neighboring Russian empire would gradually see itself as the protector of christians subjects in the ottoman world. Especially as it viewed itself as the guardian of the orthodox church and the inheritor of the roman legacy of the fall of constantinople. But the conflict between these two political entities was not just a religious one, as despite what ideological or religious or moral high ground countries claim to have, the truth is states operate in whats good for their self interest. This is whats called Realkpolitiks, and if you've ever played a paradox multiplayer game. That is all to say, it is very simply in the interests of the russian empire to have control over the black sea and to expand its power into the balkans. The propaganda and narrative simply follow along to fit their goals. If we fast forward to today, Turkey is still putting its own interests above all else, even with its own allies in NATO, as it continues to create tensions with greece over the aegean sea and cyprus, meanwhile holding up holding up sweden from joining nato in the first place. And if we take a look at all of these big scary arrows on the map, we can see this is in spite of Russia's current occupation and invasion of parts of Uxkraine, which as sparked revival and expansion of nato, but even international outraged caused by the russian war in ukrxaine, is not enough to make turkey put aside its own interests and thats why natos biggest internal problem is turkey. Now, if you're wondering why I just gave a brief overview of turkish history and managed to name drop ukraine, and nato, and sweden, and russia, its not because i forgot the original topic was supposed to be, its actually because in year year 1542, the ottoman empire militarily aided the Adel sultanate, which held territory where today the modern state of djibouti is, and together they fought the portuguese and ethiopians in battle which had a significant impact on the history of djibouti, and the order to tell you that i had to give you the entire background of the turkish people, the ottoman empire, a bit of nato-ukraxaine and russia as historical context. But to truly understand djibouti on the world stage, we have to fast forward again to the modern day, where we can see 90% of djibouti's exports are youtube videos about geopolitics, and they're going mostly to china, and if you wanna know why, its because chairman xi jingpins nebula subscription has expired, causing massive economic collapse in the country, as without the constant stream of clickbait geopolitical content, suxicxide rates are rapidly increasing causing the population to fall. its estimated by 2050, chinas population could drop to 5 people in total, unless someone can afford to renew chairman xi's subscription and this is why china is shrinking fast. But there is one plan to save the chinese communist part, and that is because its been recently discovered that johnny harris is currently makin geopolitical youtube videos in taiwan, this gives the island of taiwan extreme value on the international stage because its estimated that if mainland china can reunify with the island, not only would its population maintain a healthy growth, but it would break the island chain led by the united states designed to keep the ccp isolated from the wider geopolitical youtube market. Willl china invade taiwan next? the answer is most likely,, because if you look at the map you'll see mulitple arrows pointing towards taiwan, and everyone knows the more arrows i put on the map, the more likely an invasion happens. And tbh, I can just keep doing this, I mean I could add so many arrows that are so beautifully animated that it won't even matter what the chinese communist party wants they'll simply be forced to invade. But if you really wanna know why the chinese peoples republic is so good at war, its because they have experience at it. I'm not talking about their military expansion into xinjiang or tibet, because those have always been historically apart of china, I'm talking about chinese intervention in the korean war to help the north koreans in their unification of the south. North korea while failing to unify the penisula because of the united nations intervention, also gained valuable combat experience and would go on to create the most militarized state in the world, and to be honest with you, idk how north korea is preparing to attack ukraine, but once again my puples, if we pay attention we'll see a high number of arrows in the thumbnail, which can mean only one thing. A glorious liberation on the shores of the black sea to expand north korea into ukraine, which will promptly be renamed to west korea. Did you catch that one viewer? lets look at the one more time but a little bit slower. Thats right, you thought i forgot about the point of the video again, but i didn't. Because as you can clearly see, the invasion path of north korea into west korea clearly passes djibouti's territorial waters. This goes to show how vital djibouti's geographic positioning turly truly is, even for a country as far away as north korea, they are totally reliant on the djiboutian government who controls this strait in order to facilitate their liberation of west korea. But there is something I've yet to mention, something that is the glorious central african empire which is set to invade djibouti at the time of this videos upload. This will have major geopolitical consequences around the world and you can learn about it in my modern conflicts series where I'm yapping for 50 minutes straight instead of yapping for 30 minutes straight..
@@johnnyharris putland is somalia today was major for the ancient Egyptians. The fabled land of ancient Punt was a major trading partner of Egypt's for at least 1,100 years. Punt was an important source of luxury goods, including incense, gold, leopard skins and living baboons. The Land of Punt was long associated with the gods and Egypt's legendary past partly because so many of the materials from Punt were used in temple rituals. The leopard skins from Punt were worn by priests, the gold became statuary, the incense was burned in the temples.
Djibouti's bank account is swelling with cash from hosting global military bases, yet its streets tell a different story of poverty. With fewer than a million residents, where's all the money going? Maybe President Guelleh can explain the mismatch? #FollowTheMoney
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Important to whom ships can take a detour to South & dock to South Africa get suppliers & move on which is safer but little longer as they use to in the past.
I really love your channel can you do a series on China 🇨🇳 strategically buying farmland in the US (near military bases) and if this could be potential war on our territory??? Dr. phill did a show on it but I would love to get information from you
Exactly. Mr CIA is being cringey again
Love the practice to pronounce Qatar.
Pretty unfair to china, if the don't showup they are lazy and piggy backing west and if they show up they are the bad guy, come on
Colonial mindset back at it saving the people of Djibouti with freedom. You're part of the same brainwashing western media. Not one mention of deaths in Palestine or Yemen by the US. Great Geopolitics. One sided narrative and the irony with AD.
It's the only country that rhymes with "booty", you'd better believe we've heard of it.
I'm sure most Americans have heard the name, but couldn't find it on a map, and that's myself included before this video
Americans can’t find Utah on the map 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was thinking about Jaboody Show/Dubs
Would you insert some great powers in Djibouti?
As an American, there are places in America that I wouldn't even be able to find on a map. 😂🤦♂️
Let's not act like it's only an American thing though. It's a big ass planet!
(I wonder how many places the North Koreans could find? 🤔) At least we still have our freedom for whatever that's worth.
As a djiboutien citizen we don’t have a say about who coming to the land or leaving its all done behind closed doors. The population is not even aware what is going on around them.
That's because they are too worried about getting their Khat.
Tbh I don’t trust the west as far as I can throw them, never a good sign
I can only apologise that we in the rest of the world have brought our geopolitical conflicts to your doorstep
Hope one day your land can be free, see what Niger and Burkina Faso has done
@@rewardharawa2680I’d instead look at Singapore. This is literally the most comparable yet so different country there is. Singapore has so many similarities and was poor just few decades ago. Focusing on bringing investors instead of just foreign armies should be the goal. But it sadly does need the foreign armies as Djibouti’s army cannot fight off its neighbours and doesn’t have programs to train every citizen like Spore or Korea does.
People often forget that more than 90% of all the foreign trade is through shipments. These routes and canals are literally what's connecting the world into one giant market.
People don't forget that's common sense lol
Thats it was stolen from somalia 🇸🇴
@@quentincollins2567No its not cuz the "people" dont even think about it
@@Ficmon You mean western world. "Global trade" The houthis made their statement very clear they're stopping trade from western terror!sts. Stop the Genocide.
Wrong.
Great analyzing! I’ve always thought ur videos are so fascinating. Greetings from Yemen 🇾🇪
Salute to your support for 🇵🇸🍉
There is Internet access in yemen??? Lol
@@Will_92
Nah I’m commenting from mars
I mean how,s the economy doing for you all?@@Ash_tommo
How are you doing given the war?
I was born and raised in Djibouti . Growing up we were so used to Americans or French fighters jets taking off a couple of miles from our high school that the teachers had to pause the lesson for a couple of minutes because you couldn’t hear the person sitting next to you. I moved by myself to the US in my early 20’s and been losing sleep at night knowing that my loved ones are over there and if shit goes south tomorrow there is nothing I can do about it. Shoutout to you Johnny for shining some light on my home country. Appreciate it Sir
Il n'y aura rien à Djibouti crois moi...
C'est l'Érythrée qui doit avoir peur...
Why not try moving your family to states.
@@akay435Or take your loved one to the US
@@akay435trust me I’ve been trying but the uscis is a fucking nightmare
Missed opportunity with the title name. You still have time to fix it, Johnny.
Why everyone wants a piece of that Djibouti
You’re welcome.
Make your own video! I understand what you are saying but Johnny's name tag of the video is more interesting
cos it's lame, not funny and literally the first dumb joke a bunch of plebs say to mock a countries name. Like haha turkey is a bird .....LAME
based :P
I thought the video was about Eritrea, a cool name, less heard of
loved it
How long do you spend making and looking at maps?
Jonny: yes.
Johnny himself probably spent 5 minutes, the rest was done by his employees
You know it's all for narrative show, right? He's not actually learning this shit for the first time on-camera. Sorry to ruin the movie magic for you 🤷♀️
@@tom.mp4 they didn't ask that. sorry to ruin your comment magic
He's a loner.
@@neanda They did though, he doesn't spend that long looking at maps.
You aren't seeing some sort of cutdown highlights reel of revelations he has while looking at maps. You are seeing him look at maps for the exact same number of seconds as he does in the real world.
Are you dense???
Heard of Dijouboti for the first time from someone who was a cook on a merchant ship. It was one of their routine stops for shore leave, and where every major country has a presence.
As someone from Djibouti, if I give my thoughts on foreign military presence, it's quite intimidating seeing these military bases with their soldiers armed right on roads and along side beaches in the middle of the city, where we commute in our daily life. We do hear quite often jet fighters with their bursting sounds as well. But it seems that we've adapted to it.
Thank you for sharing! I hope you have a good day!
How's education and hospitals over there??
I think yall deserve better that’s just my opinion America is dumb we can buy less shit sometimes
@ebenezermarboh5849 well, since the huge rents that the Chinese, US, Italians, Japanese, and French pay goes directly into the pocket of the President, his family and friends, they're crap.
@@joby10095 you from Djibouti??
I had a friend who was stationed there years ago. I asked him “what was it like?”
His response: “it was boring, but hey we needed to be there just incase things get crazy.”
😅With the help of USA, the world get crazy
i love it. I should have had your friend just say that instead of spending all this time making a fancy video that basically is saying the same thing🤣
Let‘s just hope it stays boring 🤞🏻
"It was boring. But hey! Now that we're here, hopefully, it gets interesting"
Exactly. Without the U.S. military protecting those shipping lanes, the entire global economy is threatened. Which is why Americans wonder why the rest of the world is upset that the United States is the world's police...
2:41 “it’s a lot. Djibouti is a lot. There’s a lot going on in Djibouti” 😏
Giggity
Shake shake shake
Giggity giggity indeed
Jibouti's 90 percent of export is youtube videos
🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is simply Somali lands that was divided up by non somalis
Not like you lot are doing any better by yourselves
@@zuesadam7143 are you somali? no. so dont talk about somalis
@zuesadam7143 thing is... it is hard to do well...when the biggest economies nd strongest armies are conspiring against us... as a very simple example.... the British divided the somali lands... thus ensuring centuries of conflict...
@@zuesadam7143doing pretty good and it being divided is the probakme
@@HamadaQorshelstill doing good but yes Somalis ahve so much enemies
Dude, your map animations are next level.
The maps are super helpful for illustrations for understanding.
Agreed, everyone loves maps and magnets
Victor - very well said! I totally agree. 👍
When I was in middle school I was in a soccer camp where we would pick a country to play as in a world cup tournament, I convinced my team to pick "Djibouti" and made shorts with "Djibouti" written across the butt of our shorts. Might have been a bit insensitive but I was in middle school and I stand by it was a funny gag.
Harmless and hilarious
That’s incredible
Madman 😂
Dji🍑
You win sir. You win
One day I will be mature enough to say “Djibouti” without giggling
Just turned 30, bet your as I still giggle from it..
I’m 50 - sorry friend, it’s never going to happen.
He said there’s a lot going on in Djibouti lmao 😂😂 I’m glad I’m not alone though
Me too😂 I’m 50 and clearly immature cuz the first thing within seconds of I sang out loud, “Get Djibouti on the dance floor”…and giggled 😂
It’s a windy little choke point.
The graphics and animating is incredible. Great reporting as well. Big thumbs up
Everyone's heard about Djibouti, but mostly because news anchors like to make fun of the name at the Olympics parade.
yooo
I sat next to a gentleman from Djibouti 🇩🇯 ion British Airways. We had a lovely conversation.
lolll
@@johnnyharris i love you johnny
@@johnnyharris why is google translating a misspelling of laugh out loud? I fig you are going laugh out loud loud loud but google is like "want to see what this word is in English? I click on it and it's just LOL and I'm like "wait...what langue is lolll for lol?* did google stroke out?
That’s what I told my girlfriend “Djibouti is the most important country in the world.”
She said. "Yemen... And don't you forget it."
"Djibouti Call"
Omg geography jokes are so cheesy like beyond
Oman this is getting out of control
When i get one i will make sure to tell her that
I hope you do go to Djibouti and talk to the people. I want to hear what they have to say about living so close to so many foreign bases.
omg thought the same... would honestly be so interesting! especially seeing how close people do actually live to them
Somalia didn't have a choice
The Djiboutian president is a dictator so from what I know it's not appreciated
I’m sure they love their western overlords who they never interact with and only see in spacecraft 😂 especially since they became so rich from it! (sarcasm btw)
@@MansaMusa_ll_of_Timbuktuokay "Mansa Muss". Since you obviously haven't made it out of Mali yet, let's help you out. China and Japan are in Asia - "the East". They aren't "Western.".
As for your implication that they are being guverned by foreign powers, well ... No. They would be very weak and vulnerable without the partnerships with foreign powers. They have essentially no agricultural ability or natural resources. So, it's obviously a good deal for them.
What is the alternative? Alliances with Arabia with it's political instability and Islamists? Warring Ethiopia and Eritrea? Somalia?
The Sultan would be smart if he reinvested that foreign money to develop a modern economy in the style of the UAE or Singapore.
I could watch a Johnny Harris video every day. Best content in all of UA-cam!
Here before this title and thumbnail changes like a million times.
max ad revenue
All the big UA-camrs do this really, apparently it helps reach a larger audience
AB testing y'all :)
Many youtubers are doing this
Whatever it takes to make that money hoss
Thank you as always, didn't put much thought into Djibouti. This has opened my eyes.
😂😂😂
'HORN of Africa' is becoming more and more important because of Djibouti. And it also shows how important choke points are in critical geopolitics.
Somali peninsula* Djibouti is part of somalia stolen
Did you geography teacher ask you to write this for homework?
@@VALLAERION I think he was making dirty puns
Always*
@@skp8748 Somali Penisula is a small problem mate
For all those who say they don't have enough time. Johnny walks and gets these videos done AT THE SAME TIME.
His controlled opposition and spews the narrative they want him to
When I was in Merchant Navy, our company was chartered to supply raw materials to a small island right next to Yemen and beside Djibouti which is hardly 12 nautical Miles. Its called Mayyun Island. Back in 2017 it was bought out by Saudi and UAE to build a port and an Airforce base, so it all makes sense now. and that small portion of passage is called Chickens Neck.
How about Mifia lsland? Small Little place that plays the whole world
@@AbeTheFakeSagewho’s being monitored are u yemni and djoubti is a western puppet state and the destoyrd Somalia for a reason
The island was stolen
I’m from Djibouti, my grandfathers family owned many plots of land that the current US Military Base sits on. The government in Djibouti forced us to sell it.
Since many of you can’t comprehend an extension of the base let me explain, Camp Lemonnier was always there. There was an expansion in 2006 that lead many civilians selling their land back to the Djibouti Government so they can lease it to the Americans. Crazy how a concept of expansion of a military base is hard to believe. Djibouti is about the size of New Jersey, with about 3/4ths of that being habitable and suitable for human life. It’s the lowest point in Africa and one of the lowest in the world, yet a commentator wants to believe that Djibouti is a Greenland, which is comical as hell. I have notarized documents of the sale from 2006. I also find it hilarious that the other Somalis in the comments have no issue with this statement because is known amongst our people. Some random buttfock in Arkansas wants to tell me the story of grandfathers inherited land is quite hilarious.
Interesting, my family owns land in Borama right next to Djibouti
@@NoRockinMansLand saylac here
But I bet it was for more money than it would regulary sell. It is the same every where. Government want to build new road ? Someone will be forced to sell some land
Bro hows life in Djibouti?
@@DrIstoriswhich means what? "Oh, well you got money out of it," but you've also lost all your productive ability that was tied to that land. Can't use it for herding, can't use it for farming. Sustained revenues? Gone. Supporting ones self? Not anymore.
Never thought i needed this explanation
At 2:13 Johnny says that Djibouti is home to 'Japan's only foreign Military base by the way' and 'China's first base military base outside of its country'.
Isn't that strange? both of these nations have precisely 1 external military base, but japan's is treated as an aside, whereas China's is treated like the first step (presumably to increase in future?). I am not sure, perhaps there are plans for china to build more foreign military bases, but the discrepancy in language here is notable to me.
Why Every Country Has Military Base in Djibouti - Reallifelore
Yep. One of the best channels on UA-cam. The Saudi Arabia video was quite interesting.
that's a great vid! such excellent mapping and analysis. ua-cam.com/video/1S3PhfNHclU/v-deo.html
@@johnnyharrisyou’re a vastly better UA-camr Johnny
Djibouti has the best House Negro president 😂
Everyone seems to have an interest in Yabooty
Djibouti has to remember that with great powers come great responsibilities
Great statement! That should be used in a movie or something.
The editing style was a lot more crisp and enjoyable this video. I appreciated it.
Johnny sometimes I wonder how you can sleep at night with all the things you know.
Country I didn't hear about? Who do you think I am? American?
Why am I American and knew about it?
Also i find it funny how alot of you find any chance you get to say something about Americans, you guys must think about us alot😂
@@surotto4321 lol, they're just mad about being forgettable
i m from djibouti... thank you for well explained
What can you say about the citizens’ thoughts on the foreign military presence in your country
Do you guys have phones ?
@@faizanzeya8261 they do. It's serviced by Djibouti Telecom and when I was there I believe they were just starting to get 3G back in 2012 if I recall. They've got tons of shops in the markets with smart phones. I had a basic Nokia phone through them as well as an internet connection they ran on base that was terribly unreliable but greatly appreciated. Djibouti Telecom was getting some serious developments when I left, including their data center with a lot of new fiber networks.
@@faizanzeya8261what do you think he’s typing on
@@yashwanthchoudary8302 we don’t benefit from it whatsoever. Only the president and his ppl take everything. If someone tries to overthrow the government the west will immediately come in and stop the ppl who want good for us. I left the country but I visit quite often. I believe if we get great relationship with Russia and China they will benefit us more than the west. The west influence in the world is reducing so I just hope we get rid of these greedy ppl including the current puppet government. We have the same puppet president since 1999 that says a lot about the situation
Imagine having world superpowers in your country and you're still poor and you don't have cities like Singapore or Hong Kong, world class education etc. Jesus Christ, is Africa Cursedd???
I'm sad and Mad at Djibouti. Africa is never at the deciding table but rather at the bottom of the receiving end every time. Why???😢😢
Why?? Basically very simple, the colonisation of Africa has never ended, just because it ended "officially. Look at the mines in DR Congo or the farmers of cocoa beans and you basically already know everything.
@@Alltagundso djbouti also literally has is colonial borders just like somaliland and its just getting bullied by all foreign powers. As a somali person myself (from somaliland) im so pissed that our leaders are all after short term gain and not uniting under our somali heritage.
-djbouti is under a dictatorship which doesnt care about its people
-somaliland is in a cival war (and of course its about clans and tribes)
-somali is corrupt and has to deal with terrorist
-ethopia occupied ogaden and the kenyian somalis seem to not give a fuck about the rest of the somalis
we have been divided and conquered and all we care about is fighting within ourselves. If all somalis united to form one greater somali we would be able to deal with these foreign invaders but that will never happen.
@@abduking. so sad 😢 the area has big problems for decades and decades...
Johnny you are hands down one of the best map animators on planet earth. The watercolor maps at 1:04 and throughout are beautiful.
This reminded me of a joke my friend made which was ‘Djibouti so big, it’s a country in Africa’
The wind whistles a forlorn tune as it blows across the dusty plain, the tumbleweed dancing as if making a last leap for freedom.
Keep your day job
lol
The joke is so bad it's good. Your friend is funny 😂
@@rayray8016 yeah lol
Ground news is actually an excellent tool. Awesome sponsor for this channel
For sho?
Do they write truth about Palestine?
The only relevant promotion I'll agree with.
I'm surprised Johnny didn't mention the Somalia/Somaliland/Ethiopia tensions directly related to their landlocked problem. Somaliland is granting sea access and a land corridor to Ethiopia in exchange for a piece of Ethiopian Airlines and recognition of Somaliland as an independent state. This pissed off Somalia because it doesn't recognize Somaliland as independent. It's big deal and involves UAE and Eretria. He should have at least mentioned it.
Ethiopia is clearly in the wrong and they are exploiting Somalia’s weakness. When somalia gets its shit together the first thing they will do is march to somaliland and start putting people against the wall
Yeah, he totally missed it. He's definitely not up to date on that part of it.
@@DavidBock1 Ethiopia 🇪🇹 or breakaway region can’t do anything without Mogadishu making Ethiopia 🇪🇹 eastern front boxing oromo regime to disappear so-called (somaliland) aka former British colony already lost 2 regions in east and will lose more territory to unionist forces.
Were talking about the most important conuntry not Somaliland (🇸🇴) issues
@@DavidBock1because that deal is bs lol no country recognizes sonaliland it has as much power as that fake country in Nevada desert that a man claims to be a country sonaliland is and will always be a region of somalia they get funding from Mogadishu and somalis controls the airspace and the sea. Also the eastern and western regions of somaliland are both unionist Google khatumo state and awdal state of somalia if you aren't familiar. It was a pathetic attempt for Ethiopia so people don't notice the genocide he is commiting in amahra region now after killing a million tigrayans. Also Ethiopia is bankrupt and isn't able to make their minimum debt repayment
This is an EXCELLENT video. You have definitely earned a subscriber.
I spent 15 months stationed in Djibouti on Camp Lemonier. We went into town all the time. There is a motorpool that you can just check out a vehicle to drive downtown.
What's even more interesting is When djibouti kick out the UAE, they moved to somaliland, then they formed an alliance with Ethiopia. Ethiopia signed an MoU to recognise somaliland. This created a political tension between Ethiopia and Somalia. Somalia called it's ally turkey to protect it's waters. Taiwan is also a friend of somaliland. There is too much going on in this area .
Its simple somalis are somaliland, somalia, djibouti. Afar are from eritrea they have nothing to do in djibouti. they were no majority until the french brought them in masses. and ethopia only cares for ethopia, not to mention ethopia has big internal issues itself.
somalis need to unite and beat the terrorists only then will the horn of Africa be a new African superpower who can protect its border against forgein influence.
Djibouti moved to somaliland? You're clueless lol
A lot! I see the Russians have a piece soon in the region!
@@RobertECheck somali has always been a failed state since you were practicing voodoo lol
@@oih.1 wrong. Russia most likely will build a base in Sudan
As a veteran I know of Djibouti well
From going off base? 😅
damn, this is the best sponsored ad i've ever seen in a youtube clip. Finally something your audience/customers actually care about. Thank you!
Asia's chockpoint (singapore) became urbanized while Africa's chockpoint is becoming militarized, WTF
Because they both had dictators, but one was benevolent and the other one not.
Geopolitics.
culture
Different types of leadership. One cared about its country, and the other one only cared about filling their pockets and family members'
*africa has more than 1 choke-point:
-djibouti
-(suez canal)
-(straight of) gibraltar
Hey Johnny, I just want to congratulate your and your team for doing such an incredible job. You explain complex topics with splendid visualizations. I just wish I had a geography teacher like you :) Thank you
Well said! 👍
I’m from that little tiny country ,proud for the achievements we made it. In 2000’s,Being young i didn’t know how important my country is when nobody knows it. I was just waiting you to give a look at the most geostrategical land .we need to be smart in this geopolitical complex thing.
@@olkatech27 are u Somali? What achievement has it made nothing
@@Bell_plejdo568p if u are from that little country then u know our achievements otherwise don’t even bother
I love you Johnny, but you saying that the USA has kept "everything stable" is just BS. Yes, they have kept themselves on top, but stable? Come on 😂😂😂
Fun fact: The capital of Djibouti is Djibouti
Another fun fact: the capital of Mexico is Mexico (D.F.)
Another fun fact: There are 13 countries with capital cities named after the country.
@@kutter_ttl6786 awesome. Shame Google killed the pub quiz, because that's a good one
@@kutter_ttl6786here the country was named after the capital city
@@kutter_ttl6786 pretty sure it's the other way around most of the time atleast
Djibouti has become one of the most expensive countries to live in Africa as a result of the international bases in the country.
It's really corrupt.
Why?
@@Justfranktbhit should have joined somalia and it would have but the french ruined it
@@fh511 it didn’t wnat to
@@Bell_plejdo568p the native somalis wanted to by far. the french imported afar migrants to say no and actively prevented somalis from voting safely
FYI the film "Beau Travail" takes place in Djibouti from the perspective of a French légionnaire. It's not about the geopolitics but it gives a closer look. Check out the trailer.
It ain’t Djibouti, it’s your beauty.
I heard of it, but thank you for the information.
The title was heard about not heard of
@@benjaminwinchester3408Real Life Lore did a video on the country
Insightful and a visual feast to boot. I'm so happy to be subscribed!
Unlike American, China actually developed while America wanted to control total. After October 7, 2023, American politicians had been exposed as international terrorist....
Its part of Somalia 🇸🇴
Forever❤
We’re one people Somalia will comeback in force still waiting you guys 🇩🇯🇸🇴
😂
Stop begging it we have our own culture we can never be associated to a failed state with a violent group of people
@@Matthew_Alex777you arent somali 😂
This was a fascinating JH video for sure. Wonderfully explanatory tool around crucial geopolitics with really beautiful map explainers. Looking forward to a future sequel where you actually go to Djibouti!
I've known about Djibouti for a long time. It's a fun word to say. Djibouti. I've known about this since high school. Damn near 20 years now.
Same, I knew it was Djibouti when I looked at the map 💃🏻 just to toot my own horn for a sec lol
Wow, look at you. Enjoy those anonymous thumbs.
My father and grandfather are from there, I've never been though, might make a trip soon
No middle/high school boy ever forgets about Djibouti from Geography class
UAE was kicked out by Djibouti from their port. So they made a rival port in Somaliland at the coastal town of Berbera. UAE plans to develop this port and deviate all of Djibouti's transit traffic there. This has created tension between Somaliland and Djibouti.
UAE cause issues all over east Africa smh
There is no Djibouti or Somaliland, all these lands stolen by the Brits and french are going back to greater somalia inshallah.
I don’t see how they can divert anything. It’s nowhere near the choke point. There’s no way around
@@uhohhotdogit’s not true first excpt a small portion “soamlailnd” doenst control anything and the uae stopped its plans
@@uhohhotdog Berbera is less than 240 Km east of Djibouti. It actually comes before Djibouti if the ships are coming in from Gulf of Aden into Bab-Al Mandab Strait. If Berbera is developed enough, shipping lines can start using it as a transshipment port before entering the Red Sea.
"The great powers are back in Djibouti just like tha old days." Seriously Johnny?
First "sponser section" in a video I didn't skip through, Ground News may even be the 1st recommended app I download, thx Johnny, your fast becoming my "Mark Felton" for contemporary events.
first in a long time i havent also
Who analyzes the biases of Ground News, or fact checks them?
The idea of "both sides" is a core logical fallacy used by many so-called news sources.
A large portion of commercial media exists to draw audiences to advertising, with a fair number of companies distributing a variety of products intended to hit silo demographics, with any news content purely secondary.
The Dems over recent decades have moved from mid-right and fascist, to extremist under HRC and since, sometimes to the right of GOP. Media largely ignores true left using a global scale like Political Compass, in order to play propaganda fronts for corporate predators and government backers.
Some entities like Associated Press as nonprofit shells of members, without overt bias as with man other organizations like CNN or RRR fronts, but with a spectrum of biases reflecting byproducts of mediocre universities, and cult camp styles many of them indoctrinate on unaware victims who become reporters employed at AP member stations.
Even ignoring the reasons Johnny should know well where "it's more complicated than a simple binary", left-right spectrums at best merge economic and religious/social ideas in ways that often don't equate well.
How insensitive of you to claim that it was the French that cut through the Suez canal? Yes it was a French idea, but executed solely by Egyptians. Many of whom had died in the tens of thousands. Your small soundbite discredits the sacrifices made by all those who died diggings while the French "management" was an onlooker.
This video was exceptionally well produced. I especially like the subtle half tone effect on the vintage map.
We worked really hard on that specifically. My team is the best. Glad you appreciated it
It's not subjective.... He ignored many facts regarding the reasons and what's really happening.
I think he ignored many facts intentionaly to avoid Zionist attacks and censorship by Zionists lobby. Or maybe he is just a Zionist )
Why you deleted my replay 😂
It's not objective, he ignored many facts regarding the reason behind what's happening and what's really happening.. Afraid of Ziоnisт attacks and censorship on his channel.... But I've feeling he's a Ziоnisт)
I am homeschooling mom, and this information is gold for me. Thank you so much. Greetings fron Colombia, South América.
My buddy in the national guard just got sent to Djibouti for a year. At first I thought it seemed kinda random, but now makes a lot of sense.
JOHNNY WITH MAPS?! YAY! That map drawer deserves a separate video.
P.S. Shoutout to Timhouthi Chalamet!
your videos are great, love the effort and dedication you guys put in the videos.
Johnny, what did you mean by oil isn’t going to be a big part of any of our futures???
Great video - thank you. The tension between Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti over access to Red Sea ports is interesting and scary in itself. A video dedicated to that would be great before any sort of conflict breaks out.
Truth be told ethiopia deserves a port ,
Eritrea took all the port and blocked ethiopia from getting anything for decades , and Djibouti charges extreme tax ,
When there is a literal agreement signed between french n Italian colonisers to lease a port from ethiopian kingdom 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 we hv like documents to prove that
Its not deserve port ethopia😂 because its landlocked @@rebbybam230
@@rebbybam230 Ethiopia doesn't deserve anything.
Countries don't get to take others land because they feel like it.
Also Ethiopia is a colonizer country as well.
I have been watching for several years, and this is my new favourite video of yours Johnny! Thanks for sharing.
My dad is from djibouti, he fled as a refugee to the netherlands in the 80's
thank you
Warya your also from there
@@Phantom_madman are u somalj why did he leave
Your videos are mesmerizing! Excellent journalism!
So what did this excellent journalism inform you about and what political action has it inspired or just lip service? You know what knowledge is? It's information that elicits action based on objective morality and a send if justice.
Anyone interested in geopolitics, have definitely heard of Djibouti... Come on johnny.
I think he’s shown many times that he infact isn’t better than this
He described Nasser's nationalisation of the canal as "weaponising" it against western forces I'm not expecting his title to be accurate 😂
@@ngweso you have a point
@@billyboo2864 an yet we are here, ha makes great content, but would be cool if it was
accurate as well, call me a dreamer
@@billyboo2864 And yet we are here, He makes great content, but it would be cool if it was accurate as well. A man can dream
i am from Djibouti and i didn't know all of this till i saw this videos thanks for this 😊
So sad 😭
Mahmoud, you should invite India to set up a military base in Djibouti as well. Then the Indian base can keep the Chinese base in check
@@johnkonde1975China and India are business partners. Brics
This is the high quality editing style that are synonymous with your videos, a night and day difference from the last video with all that distracting clicking asmr. Well done
is it Djibouti?
How am i only just finding this channel now? It’s awesome- great job!
I have an ex gf that was a navy secret squirrel stationed in Bahrain about 2007 but was tasked setting things up in Dijbotie . She said it was horrible and stunk. Many locals had leporsey, starvation, no sanitation and general epic poverty.
I was deployed to Djibouti from 2012-2013. Djibouti is the hottest inhabitated place on Earth. 130°F in summer with high humidity. We could still go to the city when we were there. A carton of Marlboro Reds costs $5 us dollars. You could buy anything in the market. People were for sale, too. Things have changed, Im sure. But Djibouti was one big ash tray.
I quit smoking a long time ago how much do they cost now?
@@edgardale4501 $9 a pack in Kentucky, or $90 a carton.
DJIBOUTI WAS A SOMALIA LAND ONCE UPON A TIME
This is the Johnny Harris I fell in love with.
Never been this early for anything
Let’s see what your partner has to say about that
China is not the only nation that builds infrastructures that puts countries in debts. Also, the World Bank, which is not even a country but a private entity, builds NOTHING, and still has countries in debt due to it's miserable lending policies. Furthermore, China as of recent does a lot of these loans through BRICS. FURTHERMORE the UAE has joined BRICS in order to cool down issues with any interests China has in Africa. Don't get me wrong, I don't condone China's methods in anyway. It is just interesting how you throw shade at China saying 'as China does' which is horribly hypocritical if you ask me....considering....
Agreed! First of all, fantastic video as usual Johnny. But you really giving out the American in you with the “i want America to stay on top of world cause that’s more stable and overall better for the planet thanks”
I mean… stability for who? Depends who you ask. All these ‘enemies’ didn’t surge just out of their own greed. America made a lot of enemies in the process.
The bias is very clear, but other than that, great content ! Thanks for sharing, it was very well produced and informative.
What map does he use in this video?
Loving the new edit style where u add short half quiet comments in between! It really works. 👌👌👌
i love how serious this man takes himself even his thumbnails are him pulling all sorts of serious faces into the camera with red circles and arrows pointing to a map lmao
don't hate the player, hate the game
Well he talks about politics
Me clicking on the video just to prove Johnny wrong, I've actually heard of Djibouti before.
But, do you know the geographical location?
I don't know who hasn't heard of Djibouti. Didn't they go to school.
You are definitely American, then.
Your silence on the on-going genocide is so loud Johnny
oh lord, you really presented this one so well Harris, having come from kenya i know even understood into grain detail and imortance of this nation Djbouti
.....How much caffeine do you need to pump out these videos per week? Dude, the flip?
Ive got the best team ever. a group of had working creative people who make this happen!
@@johnnyharris "a group of had working creative people...."
Johnny, clearly you work REALLY hard as well, I mean, that caffeine intake (and possibly sleep deprivation) is screwing with your spelling
you a jumpy boi rn, hence fitting the stereotype of hyper energetic conspiracy theorists
the difference is that you're pretty much right 100 percent of the time
As for your team, they really are amazing
this is really good stuff man, you're criminally underrated, I hope you, your team, and your channel, live really long and really, really healthy lives
I'm a huge fan of this channel. But that isn't how you write "The gate of of tear" in Amharic "Ethiopian language"
It is in Tigrinya
Where is English CC?
Djibouti is perhaps the most fascinating country in the modern world. It's really small, and if you put it over the United States it's actually still really small. But why does the majority of the population of this fascinating country live in the capital city, also named Djibouti. In fact, half of all Djiboutians live in this single area. Well the answer to my clickbait title and thumbnail that I will change later, is that the country is actually an inhospitable salt desert. And there is a fxking volcano in the middle, which is shxttty if you're trying to live. Now that the reason you clicked on this comment has been answered, I'm going to steal the next 30 minutes of your life to give you a sometimes well researched, if not a bit simplistic overview of this nations geopolitical landscape, its history and to be honest, whatever else I feel like talking about so I can extend the length of this comment. And don't worry, even though this comment is about Djibouti, I'll somehow figure out a way to talk about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea for some reason, and of course everyone's favorite Taiwan. Because, dear viewer, in church of Real Life Lore, this-this is our holy trinity, that we pray to when in need for content. But lets be honest we both know that as long as I keep this high quality stock footage rolling, this voice serious and monotone, you'll believe anything I say as I slowly hypnotize you with my high production quality and before you know it, 30 minutes of your concious experience will be mine forever, and you'll be injecting my exclusive nebula and curiosity stream videos directly into your bloodstream like the loyal viewer you are. Djibouti lies at the center of one of the most geographically important areas of the planet, only beaten by the worlds most important location, Bouvet Island, noted for its lack of league of legends and hearts of iron 4 players. Djibouti's unique geographic positioning in the horn of africa makes it a soft power wielding heavy weight in the region. It is vital to controlling the international flow of nebula and curiosity stream subscriptions, states all over the world, especially in europe are forced by geography to have an interest in the small strait that acts as a choke point for commerce. Even in Djibouti's local neighborhood, it's positioning is essential for its much larger, land locked neighbor Ethiopia, who relies on Djibouti for access to the sea so it can import curiosity stream subscriptions. No wonder then why so many nations have military bases in this small but critical part of the world. But if we're truly going to understand this topic with more depth, then we have to travel back in time to the initial western migration of turkic tribes from central asia to what we would call the middle east and beyond. These many different turkic tribes would go on to create empires and states of their own, but the one relevant to our story traveled all the way across central asia and established a medieval rump state of their own. Which, although was a small part of the larger turkish world, would go on to become the ottoman empire, a massive entity spanning 3 continents based in constantinople. But what lied ahead of constantinople was the european portion of the ottoman empire, and much of the population here were christians who didn't like being under the rule of the muslim turks. This would become a major source of unrest in the region, meanwhile the neighboring Russian empire would gradually see itself as the protector of christians subjects in the ottoman world. Especially as it viewed itself as the guardian of the orthodox church and the inheritor of the roman legacy of the fall of constantinople. But the conflict between these two political entities was not just a religious one, as despite what ideological or religious or moral high ground countries claim to have, the truth is states operate in whats good for their self interest. This is whats called Realkpolitiks, and if you've ever played a paradox multiplayer game. That is all to say, it is very simply in the interests of the russian empire to have control over the black sea and to expand its power into the balkans. The propaganda and narrative simply follow along to fit their goals. If we fast forward to today, Turkey is still putting its own interests above all else, even with its own allies in NATO, as it continues to create tensions with greece over the aegean sea and cyprus, meanwhile holding up holding up sweden from joining nato in the first place. And if we take a look at all of these big scary arrows on the map, we can see this is in spite of Russia's current occupation and invasion of parts of Uxkraine, which as sparked revival and expansion of nato, but even international outraged caused by the russian war in ukrxaine, is not enough to make turkey put aside its own interests and thats why natos biggest internal problem is turkey. Now, if you're wondering why I just gave a brief overview of turkish history and managed to name drop ukraine, and nato, and sweden, and russia, its not because i forgot the original topic was supposed to be, its actually because in year year 1542, the ottoman empire militarily aided the Adel sultanate, which held territory where today the modern state of djibouti is, and together they fought the portuguese and ethiopians in battle which had a significant impact on the history of djibouti, and the order to tell you that i had to give you the entire background of the turkish people, the ottoman empire, a bit of nato-ukraxaine and russia as historical context. But to truly understand djibouti on the world stage, we have to fast forward again to the modern day, where we can see 90% of djibouti's exports are youtube videos about geopolitics, and they're going mostly to china, and if you wanna know why, its because chairman xi jingpins nebula subscription has expired, causing massive economic collapse in the country, as without the constant stream of clickbait geopolitical content, suxicxide rates are rapidly increasing causing the population to fall. its estimated by 2050, chinas population could drop to 5 people in total, unless someone can afford to renew chairman xi's subscription and this is why china is shrinking fast. But there is one plan to save the chinese communist part, and that is because its been recently discovered that johnny harris is currently makin geopolitical youtube videos in taiwan, this gives the island of taiwan extreme value on the international stage because its estimated that if mainland china can reunify with the island, not only would its population maintain a healthy growth, but it would break the island chain led by the united states designed to keep the ccp isolated from the wider geopolitical youtube market. Willl china invade taiwan next? the answer is most likely,, because if you look at the map you'll see mulitple arrows pointing towards taiwan, and everyone knows the more arrows i put on the map, the more likely an invasion happens. And tbh, I can just keep doing this, I mean I could add so many arrows that are so beautifully animated that it won't even matter what the chinese communist party wants they'll simply be forced to invade. But if you really wanna know why the chinese peoples republic is so good at war, its because they have experience at it. I'm not talking about their military expansion into xinjiang or tibet, because those have always been historically apart of china, I'm talking about chinese intervention in the korean war to help the north koreans in their unification of the south. North korea while failing to unify the penisula because of the united nations intervention, also gained valuable combat experience and would go on to create the most militarized state in the world, and to be honest with you, idk how north korea is preparing to attack ukraine, but once again my puples, if we pay attention we'll see a high number of arrows in the thumbnail, which can mean only one thing. A glorious liberation on the shores of the black sea to expand north korea into ukraine, which will promptly be renamed to west korea. Did you catch that one viewer? lets look at the one more time but a little bit slower. Thats right, you thought i forgot about the point of the video again, but i didn't. Because as you can clearly see, the invasion path of north korea into west korea clearly passes djibouti's territorial waters. This goes to show how vital djibouti's geographic positioning turly truly is, even for a country as far away as north korea, they are totally reliant on the djiboutian government who controls this strait in order to facilitate their liberation of west korea. But there is something I've yet to mention, something that is the glorious central african empire which is set to invade djibouti at the time of this videos upload. This will have major geopolitical consequences around the world and you can learn about it in my modern conflicts series where I'm yapping for 50 minutes straight instead of yapping for 30 minutes straight..
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@@bisharGellowMahad Chill, the comment was epic 🤣
You lost me at Djibouti
Djibouti edit goes hard
6:01 There was a channel system in the past which was build by the Egyptian Pharaohs
im planning on doing a video on this!
I believe also, Cleopatra and Mark Antony considered rolling their Mediterranean fleet across this stretch of land on logs to escape to India
@@Gabelolguy not the more oldest not fake clepotra.
@@johnnyharris putland is somalia today was major for the ancient Egyptians. The fabled land of ancient Punt was a major trading partner of Egypt's for at least 1,100 years. Punt was an important source of luxury goods, including incense, gold, leopard skins and living baboons. The Land of Punt was long associated with the gods and Egypt's legendary past partly because so many of the materials from Punt were used in temple rituals. The leopard skins from Punt were worn by priests, the gold became statuary, the incense was burned in the temples.
Djibouti's bank account is swelling with cash from hosting global military bases, yet its streets tell a different story of poverty. With fewer than a million residents, where's all the money going? Maybe President Guelleh can explain the mismatch? #FollowTheMoney
He is amongst the richest men in Africa
many thanks for your professional work ❤ this is the new media which we looking for (outstanding)
Very Interesting and informative. Never realized the importance of Djibouti. Great job and visually attractive maps.
Please, please please continue to educate me. I appreciate you so much. I try and go to all of your sponsors thank you