Tomno Dominic

Reporting on and from Somalia since 2013 |Politics|Geopolitics|Security|Conflicts

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

As a retired Special Forces intelligence Operator who was on the ground fighting ISIS in Syria, one of my main goals now is teaching regular people how to build their own real situational awareness on fast moving global conflicts.

I want to give you the exact same tools we used in the field so I can train myself out of a job. My go to site since those days has been https://t.co/GVYLYZUHDi

When you select Iran as the map you want to see it isolates social media posts related to Iran from around the world while providing an interactive map with pinpoints. You just click the pins to read the actual headlines. It is timely and as accurate as open-source social media and intelligence can be.

It has a great filter that keeps out the trash posts, limits content to that which is generally verified and provides pictures if the source includes one.

In Syria it also provided what is called the Front-Line Trace whenever there were armies on the ground. It shows clear colored zones and boundary lines, so you know exactly who controls which territory in real time. You can use the timeline to go back and watch how the front lines moved hour by hour or day by day, so you know who owns what and when. It was incredibly accurate in our fight against ISIS and gave us a real edge.

If you go to the website right now you can see the effects on Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq, Bahrain, and any comments made by other countries in reference to the situation with Iran.

If you are interested in other places like Ukraine, Syria, etc. there are map options for them as well. They also have an app if you want that feature.

If you want to stay properly informed and start doing this on your own, head over and get familiar with the page today. I promise it is worth your time.

https://liveuamap.comDirect Iran map: https://t.co/34LHD57hvW

Go check it out and let me know what you think after you have played around with it. Happy to answer any questions you have as you learn it.

[Jeremy Binnie @JeremyBinnie]

We helped with this Reuters story on a suspected RSF training camp in Ethiopia. The location is at 10.413 34.866 with a possible logistics area just to the west on the other side of the river. https://t.co/3gVWjCSgne

[Reuters @Reuters]

Ethiopia is hosting a secret camp to train thousands of fighters for the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group in neighboring Sudan, Reuters reporting has found, in the latest sign that one of the world’s deadliest conflicts is sucking in regional powers from Africa and the Middle East https://t.co/hItjNTa2da

[יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog @Isaac_Herzog]

שמחתי להיפגש כאן בדאבוס עם נשיא סומלילנד @Abdirahmanirro. אני מברך על כינון היחסים הדיפלומטיים בינינו ומצפה להעמקת שיתוף הפעולה לטובת שני עמינו.

[Tomno Dominic @dtomno]

When a hyena wants to eat its children, it first accuses them of smelling like goats. Trump building a case to go Israel’s way on #Somalia.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Today, President Trump announced the U.S. is leaving 66 anti-American, useless, or wasteful international organizations. Review of additional international organizations remains ongoing.

These withdrawals keep a key promise President Trump made to Americans - we will stop subsidizing globalist bureaucrats who act against our interests. The Trump Administration will always put America and Americans first.

More: https://t.co/VnKtITGOfS

[Tomno Dominic @dtomno]

@thebhlub Take 2 please!

[USForeignAssist @USForeignAssist]

The 🇺🇸 is deeply concerned by reports that Federal Government of Somalia officials have destroyed a US-funded World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse and illegally seized 76 metric tons of donor-funded food aid for vulnerable Somalis. The Trump Administration has a zero-tolerance policy for waste, theft, and diversion of life-saving assistance.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro attempted to keep himself in power by promising US President Trump exclusive access to his country's vast oil resources, and to cut ties with China.

Watch the full episode of Pinch Point with Al Jazeera's @mohamedwashere: https://t.co/nhZPjjSLVZ

[وزارة الخارجية وشؤون المغتربين الأردنية @ForeignMinistry]

Joint Statement

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, the Union of the Comoros, the Republic of Djibouti, the Republic of The Gambia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Iraq, the State of Kuwait, the State of Libya, the Republic of Maldives, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Sultanate of Oman, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the State of Palestine, the State of Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Federal Republic of Somalia, the Republic of the Sudan, the Republic of Türkiye, the Republic of Yemen, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, underscored the following:

1- Their unequivocal rejection of Israel’s recognition of the “Somaliland” region of the Federal Republic of Somalia on 26 December 2025, given the serious repercussions of such unprecedented measure on peace and security in the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea, and its serious effects on international peace and security as a whole, which also reflects Israel’s full and blatant disregard to international law.

2- Their condemnation in the strongest terms of such recognition, which constitutes a grave violation of the principles of international law and the United Nations Charter, which explicitly stipulates the imperative of protecting the sovereignty of states and their territorial integrity, and reflects Israel’s expansionist.

3- Full support of the sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Somalia, and the unequivocal rejection of any measures that undermine the unity of Somalia, its territorial integrity or its sovereignty over its entire territory.

4- The recognition of parts of states constitutes a serious precedent and threatens international peace and security, and violates the cardinal principles of international law and the United Nations Charter.

5- The full rejection of any potential link between such measure and any attempts to forcibly expel the Palestinian people out of their land, which is unequivocally rejected in any form as a matter of principle.

#Jordan

[Cabdiraxmaan Cirro @Abdirahmanirro]

This is a historic moment as we warmly welcome @netanyahu the Prime Minister of the State of Israel’s recognition of the Republic of Somaliland and affirm Somaliland’s readiness to join the Abraham Accords. This step marks the beginning of a strategic partnership that advances mutual interests, strengthens regional peace and security, and delivers shared benefits to all stakeholders, without prejudice to any party.

[Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער @gidonsaar]

I was glad to speak just now with the President of Somaliland Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, on this important day for both countries.
Over the past year, based on an extensive and ongoing dialogue, relations between Israel and Somaliland have taken shape. Following the decision of @IsraeliPM Benjamin Netanyahu and the President of Somaliland Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, today we signed an agreement on mutual recognition and the establishment of full diplomatic relations, which will include the appointment of ambassadors and the opening of embassies.
We will work together to promote the relations between our countries and nations, regional stability and economic prosperity. I have instructed my ministry to act immediately to institutionalize ties between the two countries across a wide range of fields.

[Goobjoog @GoobjoogMedia]

Turkey’s Expanding Footprint in Somalia: From Humanitarian Partner to Strategic Power Broker https://t.co/yUuvDGjh2v

[Tomno Dominic @dtomno]

@WehliyeMohamed Lanes aside, kuna vile parallels run deep between the NY guy and our former City Hall boss. Waweru went after the White residents of Langata, Karen and Muthaiga over unpaid rates-£10m. Mamdani has his sight on NY super rich to finance his transformation agenda!

[Crisis Group @CrisisGroup]

Somalia’s government and the opposition need to move the country forward. Failing to do so will mean more division, donor disillusionment, and opportunities for Al-Shabaab. Ordinary Somalians will pay the price. https://t.co/wmFSkZDqc5

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

#Tanzania: We are alarmed by the deaths & injuries in the ongoing election-related protests, as the security forces used firearms and teargas to disperse protesters.

We call on the security forces to refrain from using unnecessary or disproportionate force, including lethal weapons, against protesters, & to make every effort to deescalate tensions. Protesters should demonstrate peacefully.

https://t.co/SLmsdnGTT9

[FrenchEmbassyKenya @FranceinKenya]

As allies and neighbours in the Indian Ocean, France 🇫🇷 and Kenya 🇰🇪 have a common interest in ensuring regional security. For that reason, Hon. Cabinet Secretary Roselinda @SoipanTuya and Amb. @arnaud_suquet signed today a reciprocal defence cooperation agreement ✍️.

👉 Why? Its purpose: to establish a legal framework for defence cooperation activities, making our cooperation more efficient, effective, and timely in addressing contemporary security threats🪖.

👉 What does it mean? France and Kenya will enhance their cooperation in:

1⃣ maritime security;

2⃣ intelligence;

3⃣ peacekeeping, humanitarian aid and disaster relief;

4⃣ strategic dialogue;

5⃣ exchange of officers in the fields of defence education, training and research;

6⃣ exercises, training and instruction;

7⃣ sharing of knowledge and experience, conferences, seminars and visits.

👉 What does it imply?

✅Shared action to strenghten peace and security in the region, especially in the field of maritime security 🌊;

✅A framework for mutually beneficial cooperation – respecting each country's sovereignty.

Through this landmark agreement, France and Kenya reinforce their strengthening relationship 💪.

@kdfinfo @Armees_Gouv @francediplo_EN

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

#BREAKING
UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba

Result of the vote:
In favor: 165
Against: 7
Abstain: 12

[Tomno Dominic @dtomno]

@cobbo3 Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.