Why Every Country Has Military Bases in Djibouti

Djibouti is basically a pre game lobby for all nations

America, China, France, Germany, Russia, India, all want a little of that Djibouti

great job on your analysis. you included so many facts which i didn't know, and i served in Dj from 2018-2019. really great stuff here.

You have become a major YT geopolitical channel in the last few years. Keep up the great work 👍

Djibouti: "I'm playing both sides so that I always come out on top."

With all that coast line I really would’ve thought Djibouti would have more seamen

Love the channel. Unparalleled content. Amazing research and synthesis work. Only one issue: background music is distracting

Thanks for this awesome video! I'm personally really interested in your videos talking about the Persian Gulf and and the states around it! Very well done!

Quick Summary: Djibouti may be small but is the only country controlling access to the main part of the strait separating the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. All countries nearby are hostile and/or under conflict so Djibouti's calm political situation and its extremely important location combined attracts important countries to control trade.

As a Djiboutian Since our independence on 27 June 1977 the Horn of Africa was already in turbulence due to the conflict that was happening like the Eritrean War of Independence (1961-1991), Ogaden War (1977-78), Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991), Somali Civil War (1978-now), Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998-2000) and our own Civil War (1991-1994) and also other battles/wars happening now. Djibouti accommodated migrants and refugees with the help of UN and WFP because of wars and famine. The French Forces remained present in Djibouti do to a provisional protocol of June 1977 laying down the conditions for the stationing of French forces, constituting a defense agreement because of the unstability of the region. There are two main linguistic and ethnic groups are the Somalis and Afars. Although most Djiboutians are Somali-speaking, national identity is fairly cohesive, being rooted in a common historical background.

As a former US East Coast sailor, my ship visited Djibouti and Camp Lemonier in 2009. Got a hair cut and went to the NEX. Then in 2010-2011 I got sent there to a mobile comms unit for about 10 months. Half time spent on the camp and the other half outside on humanitarian missions to Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia. Never heard of Djibouti before in my life until I went there and wow what an interesting country. Hottest place on earth, but the people are friendly and their music is great! Big fan of Somali music now haha! The time I was there, Camp Lemonier was s joint forces base that hosted French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Romanian, and Korean forces. Was so awesome to interact with other enlisted men and women from those forces. I loved the 24 hour DFAC and gym on that base.

you've done it again RealLifeLore! again and again you have the clearest and most well presented explainers on geopolitics

The french airfield there is called Chabelley, and when I was there some unit made a shirt that said “So deep in Djibouti I’m in Chabelley” 😭

Everybody wants a piece of Djibouti!

This was very interesting and informative, thank you!

Excellent post !!

now its time for RealLifeLore to establish a military base there too and conscript some of his viewers and station them there

I think a video about the Balkans geography and how that influenced the history and politics of that region would be very interesting.

I really like this illustration; it provides proper perspective of many of these geographical big weights!

I've been learning a lot from this channel, thank you.