We know that that Muhammad Siyad Barre was force to flee Somalia in 1991 and this sent that country into a chaos and civil war which later gave us black hawk down.
According to the above link MSB had close ties to the USSR. What if this assult on his Presidency had happened not in 1991, but 1981? and here he ask the USSR for millitary assistance and promisses the USSR navalbase in Somalia opening the way for large USSR naval presence in the Golf of Aden.
How would the US have reacted to this? If this had gone on in the early days the Afghanistan conflict we know from OTL in the 1980s?
Giving money to Somali millitia groups to wage war on the USSR millitary presence like the US did in Afghanistan in OTL in the 1980s?