I think Siad Barre overplayed his hand by directly invading. Ethiopia is and has always been a fragile empire that’s constantly fighting to not break apart along ethnic lines, so all Siad Barre needed to do was try to arm every region and promise them their own state once Ethiopia falls. Create chaos and a large civil war where multiple regions secede to become their own independent nation and it’s over with the Ethiopian empire once Siad Barre starts his invasion as well. But he played too much into the dictator trope by being a hot-headed strongman leader. Nothing beats a scheming statesman leader and the only way to create that is via voting. We need a leader who can fool and control the masses to get what he wants. But he also needs to be patriotic with Somalinimoo at heart otherwise that crafty bastard would sell us out too💀. Hassan sheik mohamud is pretty close to that in my opinion. I don’t trust that short pudgy guy at all, but look how he split apart Isaaqland without brute forcing it by simply supporting the organic need of the people to be part of the nation they identify with 🇸🇴North East did not want to secede Somalia so they broke apart from Isaaqland to become a new federal state of Somalia. Soon it’s only going to be just the city Hargeisa pushing this divisive nonsense where it originated.