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 👍

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

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” 😭

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

This opens up a whole new field of Djibouti jokes related to the military. "I'm being assigned to Djibouti. I'll be entering Djibouti at 08:00. I'll be on sanitation duty, keeping djibouti clean. Djibouti is of key strategic importance. A lot of major players have had their fingers in Djibouti. We need to ensure passage through Djibouti never becomes obstructed. If shit can't get through Djibouti and ends up getting backed up, solving that problem might take a major operation and it won't be pretty."

Thank you for this video!

Thanks for this awesome video

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

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

Very well made video. Thank you.

The New York Times said that we will not going to last for two weeks in 1977. 45 years later we are still here. As a Djiboutian i am proud of my nation.

Djibouti's security policy is basically like: Which place is least likely to see a shooting? A gun show of course!

Great content as usual keep up the great videos

Thank you for the video. Amazing.

This was SO informative and well put together. Thank you

Considering how small Djibouti is, this is actually very crazy Edit: I'm not talking about the country🗿

These videos are great. Thank you!

wow i learn so much thank you

I was transiting through Djibouti once on my way to Somaliland next door when my flight was delayed. I stayed at the Sheraton Djibouti along with other Somalilanders travelling through. The next morning for breakfast the hotel had a buffet out with all you can eat donuts. By the time families started waking up to eat, the donuts had already been cleared out by a bunch of kinda chubby, but friendly German soldiers who looked mortified when they realized a bunch of little kids were really hoping to have donuts for breakfast. The soldiers apologized and genuinely looked really remorseful.

It blows my mind how much information is explained in these videos from this channel. I felt like I had watched about 20 minutes of the video and I look and I’m only 11 minutes in but I’m like how have I learned so much already.

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

Great video 👍

Hi I am the deputy secretary for the Djibouti state department. and I can assure you the only reason why we have all those military bases is because I didnt read the fine print to any contract. its also why Disney is probably going to build a military base here next

I remember reading somewhere that approximately half of the world's trade passes through the Suez Canal, so it makes sense that Djibouti has so many overseas military bases on its soil.

That transition between the 2 maps at 4:07 was pretty cool

Very informative and interesting documentary. Great reporting on the subject of Geopolitics!

I love your videos man, they honestly seem to get better with time. Thanks for the content!

Your videos are amazing. Seriously some of the best content on KZfaq.

Great video

Quality content 👌

This was really interesting, RealLifeLore just shows the world in another perspective every video.

I imagine saying "Little Djibouti" was pretty satisfying 😅

Simply BRILLIANT! Thank you....

videos like this one give you so many 'aha' moments ...... extremely informative, tnx

Crude oils aren't transported with container ships, but with tanker ships. Similiar with natural gases which are transported with LNG tanker ships.

This video was extremely eye-opening to some of the worlds most complex conflicts - Thank you so much for putting this together! Glad we have creators like this to catch us all up to speed.

great vid

We can play nice together. I didn't know this. Thanks for sharing.

Spent two years in Djibouti, and I can't wait to go back. Such wonderful people.

I lived in Yemen in the early sixties (Dad was an American diplomat). Yemen was just emerging from an almost medieval culture, so there was very little market for Western consumer goods. The nearest place to ‘go shopping’ was at Kagnew Station/Base in the PX. This American military installation was located near Asmara in what is now the capital of Eritrea, and had hundreds (or maybe even thousands) of U.S. military personnel and their dependents. It was a very important tool for the U.S. government to monitor communications. My first Barbie doll was bought at Kagnew PX. Our first Beatles albums were bought in Aden, which was a British Protectorate at the time and had plenty of consumer goods for sale. Asmara was a pleasant place to live.

Singaporean here. Thanks for the eye opening explanation. Everything makes sense now.

extremely good video presentation , not even a second to snooze . METTA .

Real Life Lore has become such a big channel, thanks to its way of production that its total subscribers are roughly 7 times more than the entire population of Djibouti and almost 2 times more than the population of neighboring Eritrea. In fact, this video already has more views than half of the population of Djibouti in just 15 hours. May your fantastic channel grow more 👏👏👏

No one will ever resist wanting to have a piece of that Bouti

I love your this video ♥️

My uncle was stationed in Djibouti under the US navy command in the 90s and said the reason why there're many countries with military bases in the country apart from protecting each country and their allies'interest in the country and surrounding countries like investments and oil, another reason is because the government makes money from these countries by leasing the bases to them.

Generally speaking, whenever RealLifeLore explores why nations do things, the answer will almost always come down to "oil and natural gas". Which is probably a reflection of... well, the lore of real life.

Everyone's all up in that Djibouti 👀

That was fascinating, as mere mortals we have know idea what goes on behind the scenes to keep everything "ticking".

As always writing a comment to support the channel

Sudan: *starts to deteriorate* The dozen armies in Djibouti: “I knew there was a reason we’re out here.”

You forgot to take out the "Thank you for watching this on Nebula"

They are crucial for the curiosity stream trade

Im half Djibouti. Thanks for all the Infos.

As a Chinese, it was the first time I knew that we actually had an overseas military base, and it was next to the American and Japanese military bases. Do soldiers greet each other when they go to work every day?

For that reason, honestly surprised countries haven’t recognized Somaliland. If they did, they could have military bases there too, and they would keep many of geopolitical advantages of having a base in Djibouti too.

This has got to be a wild place to visit.

I just learned like 38 new things, and I’m 49 years old. Appreciate you Mr Lore

Did you just use the Civ 6 oil picture to demonstrate the routes that oil travels? I love it 😂

India's Djibouti base is the main strategic point against china

I know someone from the Tigray region who fled for Europe. It's absolutely devastating hearing how she has no idea what happened to a lot of her family members back home.

Has the background music changed in some fashion? I enjoyed it

Thought of this question after hearing about the evacuations in Sudan.

I want to enjoy this channel far more than I actually do.

Hey brother you did a spelling mistake at 21:35, which is very funny instead of 'annual' you wrote 'Annal'. By the way it's a great video. Bye😂😂😂❤❤❤

Somaliland: "Am I just a joke to you??"

Cause everybody’s trying to get into Djibouti! Heyoooo

I’ve been deployed to Djibouti, specifically Camp Lemonnier twice with the American Navy. Its funny how they send you somewhere without even remotely telling you why, last time I was deployed was 2019 and it took a whole four years to figure out why. But he’s correct just about every NATO ally has a presence there. In the chow hall we’d have Japanese and Korean troops eating with us every so often. I always knew Djibouti was essentially using everyone bc why on Earth would you allow both China AND the US to set up shop there

I just noticed something, At the end of the brilliant ad at the very end of the video, instead of saying anual, the text says annal😳😂

May i ask, where do you get your footage and pictures from? And are they royalty free?

You do a great job structuring your videos. You go super far from the original question, but still keep it fun and entertaining. Then you tie it all together and link it back to the original question, which is easier said than done. Keep it up!

You don't usually put oil on container ships , it mostly goes on tankers

Nobody is talking about this two day video that has over a million views. I love Geopolitics and I was really impressed to find a channel that is so huge talking about Geopolitics. Great job.

Some parts of the video are hard to hear due to loud background music.

Djibouti is giving Uranus energy, and I'm here for it ❤❤❤

Djibouti DEFINITELY wants to become the Singapore of East Africa!

Great video once again. Very informative. Game of thrones in real life.

What software do you use to make these infographics?

Djibouti is just setting up the stage for the ultimate free-for-all deathmatch.

The reason for this is simple. Djibouti is strategically located. It acts as a play ground of geopolitics. Glad you brought this to light keep making great videos

Very informative video. Good work! But the music in the background was a bad choice, incredibly distracting.

When space travel becomes a normal everyday thing, everyone will also have military bases on Uranus.

Djibouti can just fit so much inside of it

Love the content. Just a correction, the strait of hormuz is 33 miles (53 km) at its narrowest (just measured it on google maps).

everybody wants a pieces djibouti

I was actually wondering this a few hours ago lol

This is either sheer madness or sheer brilliance.