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“BIG” is not a political or economic description for every quality or capability of a country, unless it is simply big in someone's imagination, or they are a jaahil. “Big” normally describes size or quantity: 👉🏾A big population. Even a highly qualified population isn't called big unless it is large in number. 👉🏾A big economy. Even an economically important country is not necessarily called big if its economy is not large in numerical terms. 👉🏾A big military. Even a capable or sufficient military isn't necessarily big if it is not large in personnel, equipment, or overall military capacity. 👉🏾A big territory. Even strategically important territory is not necessarily big. Territory is big based on its geographical size in square kilometres. 👉🏾A big budget. Even a sustainable budget is not necessarily big. A budget is big when it is large in numerical value. 👉🏾A big volume of trade. Even being an important trade hub does not necessarily mean having a big economy or a big volume of trade. For qualities such as stability, strategic importance, infrastructure, and international influence, there are more accurate words. They are not “BIG.” BIG = size and quantity. 👉🏾STABLE = political stability. Countries can be more or less stable; there is no such thing as a “big country in stability.” And guess what? There are countries in the region that are more politically stable than Djibouti. 👉🏾SIGNIFICANT = strategic importance. Countries can be more or less significant or important; there is no such thing as a “big significant country.” Easy to guess again: there are more strategically significant countries than Djibouti in the region. 👉🏾ADVANCED = infrastructure. Modern or advanced infrastructure doesn't automatically make a country big. When measuring infrastructure by scale, it is the quantity, capacity, and physical size of the infrastructure that can be called big, not simply how advanced it is. 👉🏾INFLUENTIAL = diplomacy. Countries can be more or less influential; there is no such thing as a “big country” simply because it is influential. There are anchor states in the region, and Djibouti is not one of them. 👉🏾STRATEGIC = geographic value. Countries can be more or less strategically important; there is no such thing as a “big strategic country.” Again, there are more strategically important countries in the region. So there is still no reasonable scale, even at the regional level, on which “Djibouti waa dal weyn” can literally be explained as “Djibouti is a big country.” Djibouti can be stable, significant, advanced, influential, or strategically valuable without being BIG. Djibouti waa dal weyn waayo passport iyo lacag bay bixisaa seems to be the only logic left. Xatta waxa la qaatay Turkey waa dal wayn, sababto ah waa Ciidanka labaad ee ugu wayn Nato. Hal shay oo Djibouti ku wayn tahay ma jirto, kaliya maskaxda dadka ay carbisatay bay ku wayn tahay.