If you want to see how the world really works, look at Somaliland. It is a place that does everything a country should do. It has its own money. It has its own police. It has its own elections. But the world pretends it is not there. It is like being the only person at a party who brought a gift, but the host refuses to take your coat or learn your name. This is the theater of the absurd that we call international politics.

President Muse Bihi Abdi is a man who knows how the game is played. He has spent years asking the big groups like the United Nations to notice him. They have ignored him. So, what does a smart man do when the front door is locked? He looks for the loudest person in the backyard. In this case, that person is Donald Trump Jr. The president of a country that doesn't officially exist is now pitching business deals to the son of a man who loves to put his name on buildings in gold letters.

It is a perfect match. Somaliland is looking for a way to be seen. Don Jr. is looking for the next big thing to sell. You have to admire the pure irony of it all. Here is a region that has stayed calm and safe while the rest of Somalia has been a mess for thirty years. Yet, because of some old rules written in dusty offices in Europe and New York, they are not allowed to be a real country. To fix this, they have decided to talk to a family known for reality TV and golf courses. This is where we are in history. If the law won't help you, maybe a real estate brand will.

But the story gets even better. The president also met with people from Israel. Now, Israel knows a lot about being the person nobody wants to sit next to at the lunch table. They are experts at making friends in places where other people are afraid to go. For Israel, Somaliland is a nice spot on the map near the Red Sea. For Somaliland, Israel is a powerful friend that might actually answer their emails. It is a marriage of convenience between two entities that the rest of the world loves to argue about.

I find a special kind of joy in watching this mess. The big, smart leaders in Washington and London tell us that there are rules to how a country becomes a country. They talk about democracy and peace. Somaliland has those things. But it doesn't matter. What matters is who you know. If you can get a photo with a Trump, you are suddenly more important than if you have a thousand years of history. It is a sad, funny joke. We live in a world where branding is more important than reality.

Somaliland is pitching 'business opportunities.' That is a polite way of saying they are selling off bits of their land and their future to anyone who will give them a nod of approval. They are offering a port. They are offering minerals. They are offering a chance for someone to make a lot of money. And they are doing it because the 'real' international community is too busy talking about things that don't matter. The bureaucratic machines in the UN are so slow that a whole nation has to go door-to-door like a vacuum cleaner salesman.

The elites will look at this and turn up their noses. They will say it is not 'proper' to go around the official channels. But the official channels have been broken for decades. If I were the leader of a ghost nation, I would talk to anyone too. I would talk to the guy who sells hot dogs if I thought he had a direct line to someone with power. It is the ultimate 'I told you so.' The world order is so weak and fake that a breakaway region has to treat the world like a giant flea market.

So, here we are. A president from the Horn of Africa, a real estate heir from New York, and a few officials from Israel are all sitting down to decide the future of a piece of land that the maps say belongs to someone else. It is tragic. It is comic. It is exactly what we deserve for letting the world become a place where fame matters more than facts. Don't look for logic here. There isn't any. There is only the desperate hope that if you make enough noise, someone with a camera will notice you. And in the modern world, notice is the only thing that counts as being real.