There are other countries with bases there also, right?
Djibouti is one of the world's most important upcoming ports. They nationalized a terminal owned by a multinational company and gave it to China. They won't be doing that again as there's a Chinese military base just down the road. https://www.wsj.com/articles/djibouti-rejects-court-ruling-to-hand-back-container-terminal-11579296713?mod=business_minor_pos21 …pic.twitter.com/uJsjuZaDoy
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Off the top of my head, the US has Camp Lemonnier. Apparently Italy and France both do as well (vestiges of their colonial history in the region).pic.twitter.com/3WYiaiu9E3
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In high school debate we had the Djibouti disadvantage to support for the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan. If we were pronouncing it correctly then, it’s juh (j like job) booty
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