Mike Benz

a U.S.

military ground presence in Somalia.

Now, nominally, this started with USAID.

This was the reason the Trump administration is still involved in Somalia.

We just bombed Somalia last night.

We're said to be at war with al-Shabaab in Somalia, which is essentially a rival, well, a semi-rival faction.

It's actually kind of complicated.

But we're fighting for mineral rights and control over mines.

and trade in port areas, and there are rival warlord factions.

So nominally, we have our special forces out there carrying out assassinations of those warlords.

But how did we get dragged into this?

Why are we in Somalia?

Well, it started with George H.W.

Bush

In Columbus, Ohio, the second largest population of Somali Americans now had no Somali Americans effectively at all until 1992.

But as soon as the U.S.

military began launching operations from there, we imported masses of the leadership of the Somali people.

warlord tribes that we were backing in order to enrich them.

And I think this is part of the reason the FBI looks the other way, law enforcement looks the other way, because this fraud ends up capacity building

U.S.