Follow along with me now. This is not complicated. Russia reached a tentative agreement with the Government of Sudan to build a base for the Russian Navy on Sudan’s coast. Yet the media claims that Moscow is behind the current counter coup by the Rapid Security Force aka RSF, which is trying to replace the Government that reached the agreement with Russia. Here is one example:
The Russian mercenary group Wagner has been supplying the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in fights against the Sudanese army, according to CNN.
Okay. Let us review some other key facts reported by the media:
Sudan has been without a parliament since a popular uprising forced the military overthrow of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir in April 2019. The country has been mired in political chaos since an October 2021 military coup derailed its short-lived transition to democracy.
11 February 2023 — Sudan’s ruling military concluded a review of an agreement with Russia to build a navy base on the Red Sea in the African country, two Sudanese officials said Saturday. They said the deal was awaiting the formation of a civilian government and a legislative body to be ratified before it takes effect.
The agreement allows Russia to set up a naval base with up to 300 Russian troops, and to simultaneously keep up to four navy ships, including nuclear-powered ones, in the strategic Port Sudan on the Red Sea. The base would ensure the Russian navy’s presence in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean and spare its ships the need for long voyages to reach the area, according to Viktor Bondarev, the former Russian air force chief.In exchange, Russia is to provide Sudan with weapons and military equipment. The agreement is to last for 25 years, with automatic extensions for 10-year periods if neither side objects.
22 February 2022 — Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, commander of the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, held talks with senior Russian officials in Moscow.
Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov are neither stupid nor insane. So why would they support a coup to overthrow a government that had agreed to allow Russia to build a naval base in Sudan on the Red Sea?
Can you think of any countries in the world that might object to Sudan allowing Russia to construct a naval base on the shores of the Red Sea? Hmmmm. I can — the United States and the United Kingdom. Last September, newly arrived U.S. Ambassador to Sudan, John Godfrey, “warned Khartoum not to allow Russia to establish a naval base on its Red Sea coast, saying it would harm the country’s interests.“
General Dagalo, who visited Moscow in February, also happens to be the deputy chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council. As such, he represented the Government of Sudan in Moscow, not the RSF (i.e., Rapid Support Force).
Dagalo, also known as Hemeti, said at the time that there were no obstacles to establishing a Russian military base if it would benefit the interests of Sudan, remarks which brought condemnation from the US. . . .
Godfrey told Al-Tayar: “All countries have a sovereign right to decide which other countries to partner with, but these choices have consequences, of course.”
The ambassador added that any such base on the Red Sea would “lead to further isolation of Sudan at a time when most Sudanese want to become closer to the international community”.
Ambassador Godfrey clearly threatened Sudan with adverse “consequences” for cooperating with Russia. Is it in the realm of the possible that Ambassador Godfrey or the CIA Chief of Station offered the RSF some sweetheart deals if the RSF ousted the current Sudanese Government and promised to halt the plans for a Russian base? Why that would be meddling in the internal affairs of a foreign country and we all know that the United States is the last country that wants to tell other countries what to do and who to be friends with. Right?
I am struck by the number of people working at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum that may need to be rescued — the announced figure is 70. Why so large a presence? Note that the U.S. Embassy in Kiev has 71 persons, not counting the additional military personnel detailed to Ukraine. Sudan is not a major trading partner with the United States. What are those U.S. diplomats doing?
Could it have something to do with the civil war in Yemen? It has been widely reported that Sudan sided with the Government of Yemen against the Iranian backed Houthi rebels. According to the CIA World Factbook:
Sudan joined the Saudi-led coalition that intervened in Yemen in 2015, reportedly providing as many as 40,000 troops during the peak of the war in 2016-17, mostly from the Rapid Support Forces; by 2021, Sudan had reduced the size of the force to about a brigade (approximately 2-3,000 troops)
This raises another explanation for having so many U.S. officers assigned to US Embassy Khartoum. Was the CIA providing paramilitary support, including weapons and training, to the Sudanese personnel fighting in Yemen? My guess is yes. One thing is certain, Sudan was not dipping into its own reserves to train and arm the troops dispatched to Yemen.
A funny thing happened before the latest coup attempt in Sudan — Iran and Saudi Arabia reconciled under the guidance of China and agreed to stop the war in Yemen. Boy, that upset some intelligence bureaucratic apple carts that were busy stirring the pot in Yemen.
Why would Russia want to incite chaos, mayhem and death in Sudan while it is preoccupied with the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine, preparing for the much ballyhooed Ukrainian counter offensive to capture Crimea, and trying to work some diplomatic magic to bring about a rapprochement between Turkey and Syria? That does not add up.
Maybe, just maybe, the competing factions in the Sudanese military (i.e. RSF vs. the regular Army) decided on their own that the end of the war in Yemen marked an opportunity to seize control and become an important player in a region where U.S. power and influence is waning.
What do you think?
At last! Someone has noticed – thanks Larry.
I think that they’re trying to cover for yet another Biden & Co disaster, being the attempt by DC to use a proxy Sudan force to execute a military coup d’etat in Sudan.
The Sudanese regime was ready for them. By the looks of it, the ‘rebel’ force is now in the process of being annihilated.
‘Come at the King, best not miss’ comes to mind. They missed. Uh oh. Time to get all US assets out, pronto. They’ll never come back either – the Russians will now even greater control in Sudan.
But of course they missed. It’s the Biden & Co clownshow, after all, just continuing their track record of dismal failure.
I agree. It is totally on brand for the Bidet regime to pick the worst, most incompetent faction as its puppet. They’re trying the same thing in India by none too subtly backing the utterly unelectable and useless Rahul Gandhi to try to unseat Modi.
Bidet – love it! 🤣🤣🤣😂😂
Godfrey told Al-Tayar: “All countries have a sovereign right to decide which other countries to partner with, but these choices have consequences, of course.”
Well, of course. As Ukraine is discovering.
Another naval base saga. Well, all I can say is the saga of 2014 that launched the current war in Ukraine has been biblical in proportion, stemming from the west’s breaking of the ten commandments: “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s naval base.”
Given that Sudan is a moslem country, maybe this time there’ll be a quote from the Koran to cover the occasion.
Wow, seeing you kinda coming to terms with Modi rather than thinking he is the worst imaginable kind of (any expletive here) is unusual 🙂
Modi is complex. Both genuine patriot and flip flopping Nazi. His weakness is he quite likes the West and their approval.
But the other leaders are not much better.
His attacks on minorities are horrific. However Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan are far more brutal to minorities than India. But no one talks about that. The behavior of these Muslim countries neighbouring India towards minorities is a big factor in the way India treats it’s own Muslims.
The Christian attacks are political and largely aimed at those who convert lower caste Hindus in Hindu areaa thereby changing demographics.
In areas where India has an indigenous or existing Christian population these attacks are limited if any.
And we all know CIA and missionaries are connected and that West uses religion as a form of control and manipulation of masses in the south.
Actually let me nuance that and say Modi in his Gujrat leader incarnation was horrific to minorities but since becoming PM he seems torn between an instinct to bring all indians together and RSS ideology. Plus he has to hold his Hindu right base together.
Overall though, point remains, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh show Muslim majority SE Asian nations are the worst places for minorities to live. This drives Indian, Chinese and Burmese responses to their own Muslim populations as they know what would happen if they were in charge and put simply it’s in evidence all around them.
Yeah the uneducated, crook, with fake degrees, whose party is based on clear admiration of Nazis and their solution to make non aryans as second class citizens. The same party which though ruling is involved I mosque burnings ans lynchings of both Muslims and Christians. The same modi whose party treats minorities in much the same manner as Ukrainians do to ethnic Russians
The same Modi whose only redeeming feature in his 9 year rule has been the following.
1) throwing out US NGOS,
2) instituting an indian payment gateway of UPI challenging Master Card and Visa
3) Allying discretely with Russia in this conflict so far.
I’m still waiting for news wether modi is not taking advantage of Russia by not making payments for Russian oil just as it did with with Iran when it was under sanctions.
Modi government which is letting the globo homo culture cone to India by decriminalization of homosexuals relationship and it’s promotion. Currently there is a huge movement in media ( especially advts) and even govt in celebration of transsexuals by giving govt awards, govt jobs etc in effect not just normalising them but also glorifying them.
In contrast Rahul Gandhi Or even a sock puppet will do a better job in governing India.
Just because opposition exists doesn’t mean it’s pro American. Rahul Gandhi’s Great grand father was no US stooge infact he was admired by many for his independent stance and it’s he who got the Soviet India friendship started. It was his grandmother Indira gandhi who was called ” That Indian witch” By Nixon who tried to break India away from Soviet Union.
And how many years have you lived in India? or visited India for any meaningful duration?
Ascribing the traits of the Grandparents to the Grandchild is dangerous logic.
All the good things about RFK.jr do not account for the fact his Father, Bobby and Uncle, Jack, would not support a CIA/Neocon War in Ukraine. Yet Bobby, jr. does with unhinged enthusiasm.
The Sudan is another brick falling out of the Wall from tedious and destructive District of Corruption divide-and-conquer Foreign Policy. The U.S. is falling apart internally, the entire U.S. Financial/Banking system is breaking at the seams from endless printing and infinite Debt, yet stirring the pot of blood in other countries is Priority 1 for DC.
do you have a link to support rfk’s support for nato in ukraine?
i heard him say he wants the military to come home from all over the world and asking what exactly are we doing in ukraine. and i’m too lazy to hunt down the link, so i probably shouldn’t be asking. but i’m sure that is untrue. he does start out by saying that the urge to help ukraine for humanitarian reasons was a good one (and i will be sending his campaign material on the Donbass and the real reasons that i imagine he already knows and is allowing the public to warm to him first).
but he goes on to say that the u.s. admitted they want regime change and asks “what are we doing” there. he is against the deep state and willing to back up his words with wrestling with the MIC.
i just hope they don’t kill him before he can ask those questions in the primary. he very much wants to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors. imho.
RFK Jr. does not support the NATO war on Russia. I had a long comment about his opposition to this war and all of our bases around the world, but it seems to be lost, so I will just ask you to continue to listen to his speeches.
imho, he doesn’t want to come out guns blazing, but rather to bring people along. he asked, “what are we doing” in ukraine and he wants to close our bases all over. anyway, i hope they don’t kill him before he can speak in the primary.
Bobby Kennedy does NOT support the war in Ukraine. U must be dense in the noodle if that’s what U heard him say:) I will not try to further explain this to U bc it would clearly be like casting pearls B4 a swine:( geez
Those three Modi accomplishments you noted are pretty fricking significant. Modi is fantastic. He doesn’t kiss the Americans’ ass and he stands up for his own people – who are majority Hindu.
Thank you for your informative comment. However you should check out this Viral Video (in India) about Muslim girls in Kashmir complaining to Modi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBZVGTq2Poc
Sir can you kindly tell me in which country the leader of the country listens to little girls (never mind they are Muslims who are being lynched according to you) never mind reacts in such an expeditious way and brings results to those oppressed poor people? Please just give me one instance I mean just one instance where our great Western Democratic leaders have responded to people’s needs (Do I need to remind you about the train mishap spilling hazardous chemicals in Ohio? Never mind the visit). Thanks
Good comment. The rebels are dust. Question: why do all of these nations need to have yanks to train their forces? I imagine that the Yanks won so comprehensively in their existential war with the New Jewel+, Grenada army that their armies are considered to be the best. But they aren’t. The question stands.
as usual, claim russia! russia! is the one doing the murderous deeds that the u.s. is currently doing all over the world, whenever someone says hello to a russian. if so many weren’t dying and suffering, it would be funny. as it is, it makes me sick. we must find a way to get the truth to more people. as for me, after giving up, pretty much, on elections, i’m going for rfk, jr. hope he doesn’t die.
Good comment. The rebels are dust. Question: why do all of these nations need to have yanks to train their forces? I imagine that the Yanks won so comprehensively in their existential war with the New Jewel+, Grenada army that their armies are considered to be the best. But they aren’t. The question stands.
What are the chances that the ‘rebels’ will be found with US weapons supplied to Ukraine and sold off to the highest bidder by well, you know who. We know too but we can’t say.
The US regime insinuating that Putin would support a coup to overthrow a government that had just agreed to allow his country to build a naval base on the Red Sea is just like the same dishonest US regime saying that Russia would bomb their own NS pipelines.
Reminds us of the said US regime saying that the Chinese would spy using weather balloons, and in real time, no less.
And that Seth was killed in a random street mugging.
And that JFK was killed by a lone gunman.
And that Tower 7 fell after a plane hit it, orsomething like that.
Lying is what the Empire of Lies do.
Every single day.
TY Larry 🙂 Another proxy “civil war” is in the making. Another Libyan/Syrian/Iraqi military madness fuel by greed for crumbs…and a load of bullshit.
Don’t forget the French in the region. Djibouti is not far and Chad is next door. Plus the gold and other minerals. I don’t think the mess is a French thing at all, but everyone defending it’s own interests … this could end up in a chaos just for the sake of it … and there is none on the face of the earth wise enough to say “stop children , what that sound of war , everybody see what’s going on …”
There are bio labs in Sudan which are presently in danger because of the conflict since the lab techs cannot get in.
HT ZH
At least now we know why there were so many embassy workers who got evacuated in such a tizzy.
African countries should prohibit the Washingtonians from setting up dangerous virus hatcheries on their land. It will only hurt them in the end.
And speaking of embassy cover stories, why does Haiti have the biggest US embassy in the Western Hemisphere? Another bio lab? How much more tax money do they have squirreled away for all this psychopathy?
And by the way, when are they going to do something about East Palestine? In between manufactured wars maybe? Those Americans should have been airlifted long ago.
Yeah, I’ve following this. Nothing out of the MSM added up.
But bottom line; Sudan and Yemen are next American instigated messes the Russians are cleaning up.
Let me recap if I have got this one straight.
Since 9/11, The US and NATO have controlled the shipping lane through the Suez and the Red Sea with NATO Navy vessels “hunting so called Pirates” around the horn of Africa, so that the US could concentrate on its Naval blockade and starvation the Houthi population of Yemen.
Now we hear that during this Western claimed civil war in Yemen, the US, Saudi Arabia and NATO has actually conducted a proxy war against Yemen via a CIA financed Rapid Support Force (RSF) of 40.000 mercenaries assembled and trained in Sudan with the accept of the former Government of Sudan. And these RSF mercenaries have been deployed against the Houthi population of Yemen.
However, since April 2019, Sudan has been without a parliament as a popular uprising in Sudan forced the Sudan military to overthrow the decade long autocratic Government of Omar al-Bashir.
In February 2022, The RSF commander General Dagalo held talks with Moscow.
General Dagalo is the current deputy chairman of Sudan’s provicional Council.
Dagalo said at the time that there were no obstacles to establishing a Russian military base in Sudan.
The agreement would allow Russia to set up a naval base with up to 300 Russian troops, and keep 4 navy ships, including nuclear-powered ones, in the strategic Port Sudan on the Red Sea.
In exchange, Russia would provide the Sudan Military with weapons and military equipment.
However, in September 2022, US Ambassador, John Godfrey, “warned Khartoum not to allow Russia to establish a naval base on its Red Sea coast, saying it would harm the Sudan’s interests.“
The US ambassador added that a Russian base on the Red Sea would lead to further isolation of Sudan.
In February 2023 Sudan’s military concluded its review of the agreement with Russia to build a navy base in Sudan. So now the deal is only awaiting the formation of a new civilian government to ratify the deal.
Now that Iran and Saudi Arabia (under the guidance of China) have agreed to end the war in Yemen, we suddenly have a new coupe attempt in Sudan. However this time, by the thousands of RSF mercenaries being expelled from Yemen now fighting against the military of Sudan.
Yesterday European Government called home its staff from their Embassies in Sudan, and now 70 people working at the U.S. Embassy in Sudan may need to be evacuated.
And, the Western media is claiming that Putin is behind the RSF coup in Sudan.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Your narrative would be rejected as a novel by any publisher as being too unbelievable
You can’t make this stuff up
Yes we can.
Alex, yup that’s how I see the situation.
So Sudan is trying to set up a democratic government, and allow Russia to establish a naval base on Sudan’s Red Sea coast. But the United States will sabotage Sudan’s attempt to set up a democratic government in order to stop Sudan from allowing Russia to establish a naval base on the Red Sea. Sadly, that figures.
Normally the US brings in Democracy by Cluster-bomb, but with Russia involved they are bugging out like frightened squirrels.
Six Sudanese in a boat blew up north stream.
They were wearing MAGA hats according to the NYT.
Not true, The sabotage was a joint venturer. Bhutan and Andorra is wot dun it.
Plugged – You can’t say this sort of thing out loud or commit it to paper, either electronically or in actual writing. Doing so virtually guarantees it ending up as the NY Slimes lead story tomorrow . . . . without any credit or payment accruing to you!! I can just see the “news” room staff now, all running about with their hair on fire scrambling to ‘flesh out’ your rather brilliant cover story.
Cheers
Eh, all that news the NYT prints isn’t worth a plugged nickel anyway, so they’re welcome to mine from an anonymous souse and more sour to them.
Some are suggesting it’s all about starting more proxy wars in Africa against Russia and its new friends:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-tries-blame-russia-sudan-deep-state-war
This fits with Larry’s analysis and the questions raised. It looks like the new strategy is to snipe away from the sidelines since they can’t go head to head anywhere. My, how the mighty have fallen. Now it’s down to cheap shots (even for them).
In my view the proxy wars were prepared to push China out by a combination of debt and instability funding. To some extent it’s working. Western companies are now getting major contracts that used to go-to China.
Russia is a relatively recent player in Africa it’s not done much for years. But now it’s ramping up it’s African relationships to protect itself against western sanctions.
Of note the EU and US put sanctions on two African oil pipelines preventing Africans selling each other oil and gas through them. Reason. Environment. Africa produces 3% of global pollution.
So EU, UK and US are on Africa to control it like a bitch in heat ready to rape rape rape
However what they underestimated were the historic links between Russia and many African countries as Russia opposed Apartheid in SA and colonisation, when Thatcher and Regan supported Apartheid. Russia also educated thousands of African doctors and professionals without charge.
So from an African view point, Russia is morally superior to the West and a friend. A multipolar world suits Africa just fine.
I’m multitasking too many news stories, darn interesting times. But the one impression I did have about this is “Rapid Support Force” sounds like it was named in the Pentagon, not Sudan. That’s a place I’d expect them to throw in old Arabic words like “sayf” or “mujahid.”
Sayf means sword and Mujahid means fighter ( literally one who undertakes a struggle) are very much arabic words and still in use modern arabic. Just because those words scare westerners it doesn’t mean they are Archiac.
If they weren’t in common usage, I would not have thought they would be used. Moreover, it’s because I know what they mean that I selected them.
But thanks for your condescension.
CJ, Was there really any need for the ” . . . . thanks for your condescension” at the end of your comment ? I didn’t get the impression he was criticising your use of the two Arabic words in question nor trying to be a smart arse, just letting you know that they were still in everyday use. No wonder there is so much confrontation everywhere when offence is taken at any perceived slight instead of letting it slide
I am agreeing with you and your summary of the issue. The reconciliation of Saudi Arabia with Iran, the role of Russia and China stepping into the Fray, appear to be igniting a fire in the West to prevent Russia and Sudan from co-operating on a military base on the Red Sea. That is, no matter the cost of the loss of life to those in the immediate area.
(A personal question: I think we once met in approx. 1989, in a restaurant in Florida. If so, I would like to update you on the situation and also to have the opportunity to contact you and thank you for your concern at that time.)
Dagalo (Hemedti) is an outspoken supporter of the apartheid zionist colonial settler entity in Occupied Palestine. That alone should give you an idea on who stands where.
My guess is that Dagalo is now being thrown under the bus since the coup has clearly failed. If it had succeeded he would be hailed as a “pro Western democratic hero”. Since he was so incompetent as to fail, he’s now a “Russian asset.”
“That alone should give you an idea on who stands where. ”
Maybe, or maybe not. I am reminded of the quip by an unusually perceptive senior American military person some years ago: “If you think you understand the Middle East then it just hasn’t been explained properly.” 🙂
Kind regards.
The intelligence professional is Larry! I agree! And this time even the BHL said more or less the same. He only added that in the end Russia wins.
https://twitter.com/BHL/status/1647246482385387520
“I am struck by the number of people working at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum that may need to be rescued — the announced figure is 70.”
Ah, that explains the Intel Slava Z news that the US just evac’d 70 people from the US embassy in Sudan.
https://t.me/intelslava/47109
The US needed 70 in the embassy to process visas and promote US business interests.
Note the quote marks. That was a quote from the OP, where I intended to direct my reply about the evac.
Thanks, Larry for your always-insightful analysis. That’s why your website is a mainstay in our home.
I had read about this but did not know the situation nor background. It makes a bit more sense now. I still wonder how a government allowed an independent military force such as this to form & continue to operate.
The incompetence of the current US government is astounding. I do not see how otherwise smart people thought that they could win with a plan such as the “green new deal”. They have the reverse Midas touch.
It seems RSF started much like the Wagner group in Russia.
A collection of daredevils willing to do daunting tasks for the government without too much of burpcratic oversight and dragging.
As they were more and more successful in their very specific spec-ops like operation they were gaining more and more fame, influence, man count, armory, operation types palette, etc.
Maybe another example would be “Azov” in Ukraine. Started as a end-sink for all kinds of extemists too useful to be wasted and too extreme to be admitted, and then legalised and then suspecting to actually be calling the shots more than executing the orders, behind the closed doors of course.
Granted, even a very successful and determined “light brigade” would have hard time charging entrenched military, unless some military trojans would transfere their equipment to them (Mosul and Slavyansk 2014, for example). Perhaps RSF did their charge few years or decades too early. They allegedly captured some air corps from Egypt but probably not enough of.
After some people in the US have finally figured out where Ukraine is located; throwing Sudan into the mix will only cause mass confusion. To be honest, I checked out the location on Google maps and country facts on Wikipedia. Oh, oh; one of those pesky Arab countries in Africa. There is a lot to digest just for 21st Century events (forget General Gordon of Khartoum) (Sharia law, floggings, stonings, & crucifications, baby food plants, those just for starters. (My first thought on the article, if Russia is involved, where is NATO and does the US have a military base there?) But besides being directly across from the Saudi Pennisula, at the south exit of the Suez Canal, & along the flow of the Nile; apparently (per wiki) China has been getting 10% of its oil from the Sudan and is the main arms supplier. And why is the MSM lying; either they are paid to do so or they are too lazy to logically fact check or they are too stupid to do otherwise.
The situation in Sudan follows the same rules of conduct by the US to thwart another country’s independence. As in the Laws of Physics, the general rule of the US’s supposed foreign policy is to utilize its fiat currency to bribe various factions within a government / important players in a given country that moves in the direction of its national sovereignty, in this case Sudan. We can’t know precisely to whom the bigger cash was given, but most likely both factions from top to bottom received money including even lowly soldiers like with a $100 bill each. That’s a lot of money for a poor Sudanese. For sure the wife would be very proud of her employed husband.
Things may be exactly the other way round as suggested here. Of course the US (CIA) meddling is the source of current violence in Sudan. But if you check the map of the territories controlled by RSF and the Army respectively you can see that RFS is on the area bordering with the Central African Republic (CAR) and compelling evidence exists that RSF is extremely well equipped. Across the border in CAR exists a certain W military company that is said to be very closely connected to RFS. Now, ask yourself where is the “CIA Chief of Station” that Larry mentions located. Isn’t it more likely that the Chief would find it easier to apply his magic on the Army rather than on RFS? Could it be that the Chief may have orchestrated a “change of mind” on the part of the government regarding the Russian base, then W activated RFS? Geography is such a neglected subject in Western analyses!
Does only W exist in CAR?
Is geography so important today for a relatively (to typical car speed) small countries?
If it is, it can be read the opposite way too: CIA needed a “sanitizing buffer” beween W/CAR and Sudan, and after their forces were mostly preempted from CAR they had to find refuge in the Car borderline provinces of Sudan – where else?
Just like after USSR break-up America focused on Baltic states more than on Finland and Sweden to nurture rabid rusophobia.
Also we can remember the first public statements of anti-Erdoğan coup was claiming aleggiance to Russian cause in Syria.
So, mere conspirologic speculations wise, this coin can fall on both sides
“Why Is the Western Media Lying About Russia’s Role in Sudan?”
I’d say because it’s a spinal reflex. When it comes to everything remotely connected to Russia, this is what the western presstitutes do – lying through their teeth.
this is what the western presstitutes do – lying through their teeth
Indeed they do but they’re getting a bit more subtle about it. For example, BBC today runs an article:
‘What interests do Russian mercenaries have in Sudan?
It’s called: ‘shaping the battlefield’.
Didn’t bother to read the article because, well….my natural intelligence can already write their boiler plate answers without looking, so why waste the clicks?
They’ll run ‘everything you need to know about the Sudan war’, in about 4 articles from now, I’d say.
Good ol’ BBC. Religion for the masses.
george …right on
Any analysis of the Sudan issue should start with “what does apartheid israel want”? We know for certain that US foreign policy in West Asia, North and East Africa is dictated by the zionist/neoconservative maffia.
Don’t forget too that former Sudan was dismembered at the instigation and behest of apartheid israel into two countries. It was the zionist/neoconservative maffia that made Darfur an international cause celebre with the likes of zionist Clone(y) as travelling salesmen. Let us not forget that the Sudan is an arch defender of the Palestinian cause and the zionists don’t like anyone who stands by the Palestinians. Look at Iran or Hezbollah or Venezuela for that matter. That is why the USA threatens and imposes all of its ILLEGAL sanction on these nations.
Given that the destruction of Russia is a top priority for the zionist/neoconservative maffia, friends of Russia are by definition enemies of this maffia. The zionist/neoconservative maffia sees red when Russia and Sudan develop good relations. Port Said in the Red Sea gives Russia tremendous leverage against apartheid israel and its rottweiler the USA. Any meaningful analysis of what is happening in The Sudan needs to place the zionist/neoconservative maffia at the center.
Well said. It is remarkable that most will not talk about the Zionist elephant in the room.
Rx will have the port, sooner or later.
But your observation about Zioniststan is well taken.
There does not exist on planet earth where there is conflict or meyhem that their fingerprints are not on it.
What ever God you may worship, bless the day that humanity is liberated from this pathological parasite.
As the French have a major naval base in Djibouti, the US 5th Fleet is quartered in Manama Bahrain and the Brits have a couple of rusty hulks in Oman it makes perfect sense and equity for Russia to have similar facilities in that fraught region.
The current turmoil cannot be unrelated to Sudan losing 2/3rds of its oil rich region along with 4/5ths of its cultivable land when South Sudan (mostly Christian) broke away – relatively peacefully despite all predictions of the usual suspects who have done their damnedest since then to keep conflict stoked enough to prevent it developing properly.
South Sudan is not Christian it’s mostly animist.
South Sudan is 60.5% Christianity, 32.9% Traditional faiths – ie animist, 6.2% Islam, 0.4% Others/None
South Sudan is a corrupt fighting mess, turning fast into a complete shithole. Easy to buy their whore politicians.
I’d say the Russians are there to make sure the US doesn’t think they’re in Syria and steal Sudan’s oil. You know how bad Americans are with geography.
“The ambassador added that any such base on the Red Sea would ‘lead to further isolation of Sudan at a time when most Sudanese want to become closer to the international community'”.
“Most Sudanese”, Has he read the tea leaves, to ascertain what the Sudanese want!? That’s rich, is it not.
“Isolation of Sudan”, from whom or from where?, ah, from the “international community”.
For generations we all knew what the international community was, didn’t we? The US and its oligarchical mafia and its military bases and its Hollywood and its media and its depredations and its murders, wars and revolutions… but there is now a new notion in the air.
Suddenly – it would appear – there appeared a new international community in the horizon – much larger, far more inter-national (between nations), far more promising in equality of dignity, seriously geared towards applying the rule of law between nations – instead of the lawlessness the old international community had made us accustomed to (just considering that rules-based order translates as lawless order – what thinkers would call situational ethics, applied to international relations)
And these momentous upheavals owe the greatest gratitude to contemporary Russia, as it is spearheading a good endeavour upon the whole world – at least upon the sane part of the world.
48 hours before the outbreak, “EU special envoys” visited Sudan.
Pure coincidence, right?
Interesting. 48 hours before EuroMaidan outbreak the envoys from Right Sector publicly made a visit to Angela Merkel to synchronize the watches. Well, maybe 47 hours or 49.
The Canadian embassy had hot chocolate and energy bars laid out for them in the conference room. The flash grenades and sniper rifles were stored in the basement.
Peace could never be achieved in Sudan without the removal of the Americans. Perhaps the ‘civil war’ was an agreed ruse between the army and the RFS to get shot of American presence on their soil.
None of it adds up, I saw some people saying the RSF was supported by Dubai, and ironically
both china and Russia had good relations with both groups.
I was surprised by the size of the us contingent in Sudan… it did seem very excessive.
what we can be sure of is its not going the west way if all the embassies are fleeing.
we will have to see if russia or china close or reduce there embassy staff over the turmoil
Sudan is one of those many places where the late British Empire “played” and interfered: the abortive attempt to relieve General Gordon in 1884-5 and the subsequent 1898 Battle of Omdurman come to mind. Churchill was even involved in the latter. As a side question, I wonder if Britain is involved in all this?
It may be as simple as the US / UK fomented an attempted coup and it failed. So to hide yet another total foreign policy disaster they need to claim that Russia did it. No point in Russia responding publicly: as long as diplomats who matter in the Arab world and China know the truth then western media may as well print whatever fiction it is directed to. It will do that anyway, whatever any one else says and whatever the evidence.
Or as you also wonder, it may just be 100% organic within Sudan.
The truth is just so elusive.
Why did the RSF’s chief meet with diplomats from the US, UK and Norway embassies in Sudan just before he launched a rebellion and what did they discuss?
Promise of luxury refuge to RSF ruling few
Well, western media did exactly the same about Ukraine, “forcing the meme” of Yanukovich – as American president as could be – a “prorussian” or even “Putin’s shil”
Western media loses about Russia for two reason:
1. Because they are Western media.
2. Because “thief always shout ‘catch a thief’ most loud” to evade suspicions.
This claim would alienate RSF from both pro-Russian and anti-Russian allies and would make them hanging on the sole thread of the American “benevolent dictators”, making them verily controllable.
It also would typically USA the “worse is better” framework, the more crimes they commit – the better they look and the worse look Russia.
This gambit worked for USA time and again, so why not rinsing and repeating?
I noticed this attempt by the MSM to claim that the Russians were behind the coup which is an insane idea.
I wish people would stop talking about democracy. It’s like talking about unicorns.
We just came off a period where that’s all we did, was talk about unicorns. We talked about unicorns so much that some people (mainly children and liberated, anti-natalist, spinster, gay feminists), actually convinced themselves unicorns exist. The must. Or else. Like rainbows. And a certain kinds of lollipopsims.
Same thing with democracy.
Herodotus said: “In a democracy the people vote and vote all the time.” The people are the deciders.
“In a republic the people vote once for the people who will do all the voting.” These are called entrenched, professional politicians, and they are the deciders. Just Ask George W. Bush.
We don’t have a democracy. Never have, and probably never will. Nobody does. Democracy does not exist.
Going around and saying we are saving the world for something that does not exist doesn’t change anything. Get too close to this simple fact and deciders, like George W. Bush, are likely to warn you off.
“You are either with us deciders or you are our enemy.” That applies to everything — Russia, China, critical civilian infrastructure, Germany, all first world economies except our own, food, water, the air we breathe, the works.
The United States is the biggest offender in promoting this fiction. A fiction that has become a lie. The United States doesn’t have a democracy. We have a constitutional republic with some — SOME — A FEW — democratic privileges that have all been revoked.
Larry Johnson knows this, but Larry just wants to stir the rainbow pot.
Being as it is simple to gaslight and manipulate the credulous population into doing or believing anything and voting accordingly the idea id a direct democracy is nightmare inducing.
If the US had a direct democracy, covid shots would be forced on everyone, they would already have had troops in Ukraine and gender reassignment compulsory.
Six blue cities would run the country and the whole US would be a nightmare blend of Chicago and LA.
Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father and a slave owner (just ask Sally Hemings), was terrified of democracy. He considered it “rule by the mob.”
But, with that being said. I don’t even think we have a republic any longer. What we have today is too sinister, too evil, too insane, too corrupt.
Sir,
In deep dread I must agree.
Alas, O Babylon, Alas, Alas!
It’s an unheared voice, people like Larry, the Andrei’s, theirs and their fellows – commenters and contributers are following in the ramifications of respect and decency in international relations, a minority, yet invisible, but strong in adherence to thrust in the continually working of God’s creation.
And do you know, the anscient Greeks hat a concept, the salled ‘kairos’,
meaning: a decisive developement has reached the moment, where the scale is tiipping.
Mundane Astrology, a consciousness to which I own great thank, accompanies the factual ‘policy’ of our solar Family.
The thoughts (or ‘angels’) invisible powerful creatures in universe
blessed and bloody, are ruling in the realm of a certain species: man.
His drama is: Nature, created as conscious mirror of God, according to the six days of creation.
The astrological Horizon makes it visible :16. Week 2023
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2023/04/daughters-wisdom-and-fathers-delight.html
Hmm? Egypt is in the pocket, Ethiopia has been Tigrayed and now Sudan is in chaos-not knowing the status of the new dam on the Nile- is WATER the undercurrent:) If we want to straighten it out send in George Clooney and Samantha Power(Richard Harris w/ breasts) along w/Nick Kristoff as imperial scribe for Jeffrey Feltman, wait hasn’t this movie already been made?
The media’s function is to lie in support of the American regime’s lies. The regime lies because the truth hurts its interests, and the more people know the truth the more it hurts their interests. They’ve gotta keep as many people on the fence as possible for as long as possible.
The world is watching, and governments everywhere are debating and making decisions about their future international relations. Lying serves to firm up allies, and perhaps more importantly serves to inhibit the ambivalent nations from making decisions detrimental to American Hegemony by lending support to any pro-American voices within them.
It’s gonna be lies from here until the end. Best get used to them.
“It’s gonna be lies from here until the end.”
This was said thousands of years ago. Not many paid attention then either.
The future giant behind lies is war, for truth.
Meanwhile- Mainstream is killstream.
OT: Maj Gen Vowell, commanding US in Japan, gives military perspective on their role: “Japan is like Poland. Philippines is like Romania. Taiwan is like Ukraine.”
https://youtu.be/KMnBh3FdlM8
summary in first 10 seconds.
He fulfills role of capability for US leaders to make strategic decisions. Too bad the leaders are untrained, not qualified for their role.
Everyone studies how to run a war. No one studies relationships, how to keep getting to peace. Marriage works because you commit to making it work.
Not because you think you can beat up your wife and steal her stuff without consequences.
You don’t start none, there won’t be none.
Your general is too obtuse. The proper analogies are: Slovenia is Crimea and except for the drug running and organ harvesting, Kosovo is the Donbass.
I liked to think of the Donbass militias more as the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont, but well, that’s just a regional thing.
I have not read the comments here so this information fairly recently on Zero Hedge may have already been posted and entered the discussion :
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-tries-blame-russia-sudan-deep-state-war
Seems that there are a whole shit load of USA troops just a short jump away in the adjacent country mentioned in the article, surprise, surprise.
Absolutely no question that the Empire of Chaos will pull out all stops to either right out stop Rx from sealing a deal for the port access or smeer the effort in their typical piss on anyone else making moves on their self acclaimed stomping grounds.
In my humble opinion the ruse may succeed, but only temporarily. The train is gone on these criminal nutcase mafiosi that have commadered USA power and prestige all over the world.
They have converted into a cabal of the equivalent of desperate housewives pissing their pants that the new kid on the block is fed up with their tricky bullshit hiding behind the veneer of righteousness meanwhile causing meyhem and havoc everywhere that they put the finger.
I for one are betting the farm that Rx will put paid to this shit. And don’t call me a Putin shrill or dupe. No question that I like the guy but it is because after COVID I belatedly realized that I have a fucking brain and my 6th grade Jethro Bodine southern education did, if nothing else, teach me how to READ!
Point being, all one has to do is read the man’s (Putins) speeches to know he has a much superior grasp on reality as anyone that the USA, or West, has to offer. He, along with his trusted sidekick Lavrov, are the ONLY true statesmen anywhere to be seen in the west.
Bravo to them both, it may look easy but I am sure that it takes a heavy toll.
Ascribing the traits of the Grandparents to the Grandchild is dangerous logic.
All the good things about RFK.jr do not account for the fact his Father, Bobby and Uncle, Jack, would not support a CIA/Neocon War in Ukraine. Yet Bobby, jr. does with unhinged enthusiasm.
The Sudan is another brick falling out of the Wall from tedious and destructive District of Corruption divide-and-conquer Foreign Policy. The U.S. is falling apart internally, the entire U.S. Financial/Banking system is breaking at the seams from endless printing and infinite Debt, yet stirring the pot of blood in other countries is Priority 1 for DC.
(1) Lots of folks vying for influence in Sudan.
(2) Of course the US/UK/Nato don’t want RF to have a naval base, or any military base for that matter, in Sudan, or indeed anywhere in Africa or anywhere in the world.
(3) Factions will be backed, coups will be encouraged, to put the “right” groups and individuals in power.
(4) The Sudanese are not dumb – if there is one thing that the Ukraine war has demonstrated to every leader and aspiring leader of every nation in the so-called Global South, it is this: is you don’t listen to the hegemon, you’re at risk. One strategy to deal with this, albeit not without risk, is to play all sides – US, Chinese, Russian, Indian, Japanese investment, ports, bases, training, infrastructure development, arms, money.
(5) Maintain bank accounts, safety deposit boxes, and real estate in SWIFT and non-SWIFT countries
(6) RF and PRC are well aware that, in response to the Ukraine war, one US/UK/NATO tactic is to try to “stretch” the resources of the adversary by stirring up trouble in other places – Central Asia, Africa, Taiwan, etc.
Anyway, mention of Sudan brought to mind that absolutely wonderful first novel by the great Charles McCarry, The Miernik Dossier, featuring protagonist Paul Christopher.
McCarry served in CIA as a NOC for about 10 years, and is a beautiful writer. An interesting factoid is that he and John le Carre were born just a year apart, and also died just a year apart. Their political leanings were pretty well at opposite ends of the spectrum, and their writing styles are also very different, but I enjoy them both equally.
Mention of Africa also brings to mind the book “Gangs and Counter-Gangs” by Frank Kitson (more formally – General Sir Frank Edward Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL). I’m sure many of the tactics used by Kitson (pseudo-gangs, false flags, “popular uprisings”, “rebels”, “political parties”, etc.) are being used today, by all sides.
Allow me to indulge in what Larry characterizes as N.S.A. (No Shit Analysis):
I expect that during negotiations over the Russian naval base in Sudan, the Russians warned the Sudanese they needed to prepare for a coup instigated by the United States.
To answer the question, because the U.S. govt MSM handlers told their stooges in the MSM to say it. The rest of your article explains why the U.S. govt said it, to hide our role in it and add to ‘Russia is evil’ narrative, a common twofer.
The other MSM report throws in that the Wager group is stealing gold from Africa, I bet that’s yet another lie. Propaganda is designed to press emotional buttons.
Am I the only one here who thought “Sudan has a coast?” and had to pull up a map? And here I thought I was smart.
Keeping looking at that map !!!
1] Saudi: East–West Crude Oil Pipeline (Abqaiq-Yanbu)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East–West_Crude_Oil_Pipeline
2] AFRICOM: Chinese Naval Base in Africa Set to Support Aircraft Carriers
https://news.usni.org/2021/04/20/africom-chinese-naval-base-in-africa-set-to-support-aircraft-carriers
Now add a Russian naval base at Port Sudan, then end the Yemen War (with peace between Saudi Arabia & Iran) making the Bab el-Mandeb Strait safe for oil passage …and you have a bypass of the US controlled Straight of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Then collate other things like the strategic location of the Suez Canal, the recent publicized dispatch of the US submarine USS Florida to the Red Sea, etc.
This all could be about the recent fallout between the US and Saudi Arabia? Wouldn’t MBS feel a lot more comfortable breaking from the US if it were surrounded by / buffered by Chinese & Russian military outposts / bases?
Food for thought.
OSINT
The low-income Sahel economy; one of the world’s major agricultural exporters; shared oil pipeline exports with South Sudan; transitional government increasing human capital investment; food prices hit hard by COVID-19; ongoing Gezira Scheme irrigation project
Exports – partners
United Arab Emirates 31%, China 19%, Saudi Arabia 14%, India 12%, Egypt 5% (2019)
The capital city of Sudan, Khartoum, is located at the convergence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile. Although the Blue Nile is much shorter than the White Nile, it contributes about 80% of the flow of the river.
The Dahlak Archipelago is seen off the Red Sea coast of Eritrea. Because of their isolation, the numerous coral reefs of the Dahlak Archipelago are some of the most pristine in the world. North of the Rift Valley, in central Ethiopia, are the Simien Mountains and Lake Tana. Lake Tana is the source of the Blue Nile
Ukraines Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrey Melnyk has twittered that Ukraine needs 10 times more military help, than they got up to now.
this is interesting.
what he wants is an utopia.
Nato can´t provide this. Impossible.
So it should show clearly to thinking people that Ukraine can not “win” this war.
and that all weapons provided up to now, where useless., and only extend suffering and destruction.
Bio weapons and depleted uranium coming soon.
The US can’t beat the East on hypersonics etc,. It can beat them on bioweapons with advanced drone drop delivery.
It’s already happening. There is more than one reason why Russia is cautious about troop deployment. And it’s not the conventional weapons they are worried about. There is an unconventional element to this war that is increasingly disturbing.
The US has the MOST formidable unconventional weapons, from bio and chem weapon to be Lazer weapons to micro and nano and wave weapons. All illegal. But the thing is everyone knows that won’t stop them.
So yes hypersonics etc great. S500 amazing. But how do you defend against a bio weapon or chemical attack?
This is the level of crazy the Russian military potentially faces and they know it because it’s already being used in small ways.
Why do they lie about Sudan?
Regime change against the Russian Base.
Why do they lie, in general (all the freaking time)?
That’s their core competence.
They have no diplomacy.
Their politics are based on an ideology captured by magical thinking.
They mistake enthusiasm for ability.
They lie to avoid accusations of interference and war crimes and so the troops don’t turn on the whores they bought. Plus to help their own soldiers not go completely mad at the blood on their hands.
They do not lie nor need to lie for the Western public. Since Iraq the Western public is conditioned to war, the msm will spin it to make is plausable and the Western public is fully bought into Western supremacy and American leadership.
So mainly they lie as can you imagine what the troops of those they fund would do if they realized they are America’s toys?
The Nazis are America’s toys, Zelensky their toy.
So many toys. But no one must really say it out loud lest the illusion falls from those they need to die for Western oligarch hegemony.
Pretend boys are girls, pretend Zelensky is in charge, pretend the Sudanese people want this….you see nothing is real unless they say so.
The RSF made peace deals with the Sudanese government before.
I suspect this could be simply negotiating for a decent slice of the Russian Fleet harbour fees…_
Love this Larry. East Africa and surrounding has long been planned as the next theatre. If Ukraine did not take off the wars here we’re already primed and prepped.
It is a big and complicated global theatre and your blog is really beginning to pull the strings together, show patterns in the web and question systems in an organised way.
But most importantly, above information and education what I like is unlike other blogs in much of what you do the focus is on trying to get the reader to really think and up their understanding of how to process what is vast and complex by breaking it into bite sized chunks.
I believe that is a big part of what you are doing, teaching important skills. Could be wrong but looks like that to me.
Dear Larry, Deep and still thankful for your great
Blog !
Perhaps for all this weird matters around the world
the answer was,
“…the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
the answer is blowin’ in the wind…”
But then…
…When Xi Jinping left the Kremlin that night, he stood face to face with Putin and told the Russian leader :
“Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years and we are driving this change together”
“I agree,” Putin said, bringing up his free hand to hold Xi’s arm.
The Chinese leader then added,
“Please take care, dear friend”
Well, now the answer is no longer Blowin’ in the wind…
The Ukraine catastrophe about to unfold at the very least stops the arrogance of the neocons which was working in covert operations to destabilize Iran, Thailand (Brian Berletic), Georgia and Azerbaijan (Scott Ritter), Hungary, Syria, as well as Sudan in an attempt to make sure they joined the rules based globalist order
Simple: The western media is predominantly controlled by the Pilgrim Society out of the pirate City of London. This tight network owns the media. And it’s not the “media” so it would probably be a good idea to stop using that description. It is a form of psychological warfare to control markets and the flow of money.
Demo lesson: Seyour Hersh is promoted by the all the major media that the US (America) sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines.
No way. It was the British and they are specialists at it. Check the British Special Boat Services (SBS).
Commercial warfare and there is no match for the British Phoenicians.
Trivia: Carlos the Jackal was abducted in Khartum in ’94. As per wikipedia, the french offered to wipe off Sudan’s debt to IMF in exchange for Carlos. As if they could not get him otherwise.
Geography trivia: egypt, sudan, saudi arabia, yemen oman.
British trivialllll: suez
He was abducted by the CIA. The CIA Chief of Station at the time was Cofer Black. Yes, him. Who later became a member of the Board of Burisma along with Hunter Biden.
WOW!!! That just shows how important it is to know all of the players and details. I just found out that Jeff Flake (ex Senator of Arizona) is our current ambassador to Turkey. (facepalm) Can you name the current US ambassador to Japan? He was sent over to impress the Japanese after successfully presiding over one of the United States’ most secure and economically prosperous cities… to show the Japanese how it can be done.
Really? First time I heard of this new ex-spook member of the Burisma board.
We ARE in this shit up to our eyeballs, aren’t we?
yes. Totally.
Next you’ll be saying it’s a shocker Hunter Biden was involved in Ukrainian Pentagon funded bio labs.
So the question. Who does Hunter Biden really work for?
He not just an ordinary civilian is he.
Well, I certainly understand the desire for the UK to pevent the establishment of a Russian naval base on the Red Sea. For me, this is just the typical diplomatic and subterranean manouveures of global powers; and yes, Britain still is a global power, if somewhat dimished.
When I heard of the battles for the airports, I immediately thought the same thoughts as Larry. What I do sternly object to are the lies to the British (or American) population to hide what their governments do. I expect a little honesty, as a man of the world; these lies tell me that my government does not trust me, that I am an obstruction to their operation. There I draw a line, damit.
Yeah. The dead people in Sudan, the terrified kids, the blood on the street so you live better and your country gets to enslave entire nations is just normal.
Think of that, how normal it is, when it is your kids and your family hiding under the table and blood flows on the streets.
Just geopolitics. You get it right.
Also you are irrelevant to your gov. Their words are for external consumption.
Good background on Sudan. See-
Sudan’s fight to the finish: General Burhan is the CIA’s henchman in Sudan, Thomas Mountain says. Going Underground with Afshin Rattansi RT Apr 22, 2023; https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/575124-sudan-armed-conflict-cia-henchman/
“The ambassador added that any such base on the Red Sea would “lead to further isolation of Sudan at a time when most Sudanese want to become closer to the international community”.” I guess the ambassador didn’t get the memo of what the “international community” is quickly becoming, i.e. without the U.S.
They refuse to accept their bullying ways won’t be tolerated around the world anymore. The U.S. will be isolated financially soon when the dollar crashes. A second iron curtain is forming but this time around the U.S. Long time vassals will be abandoning ship soon and swimming east. This is what a dying empire looks like brought on by the warmongers in WARshington district of corruption and the msm.
‘The ambassador added that any such base on the Red Sea would “lead to further isolation of Sudan at a time when most Sudanese want to become closer to the international community”.’
Despite decades of watching it happen, over and over, it still appalls and astounds me when some newly arrived DoS pogue ventures to speak for ‘most Sudanese’ ( … or Afghans, Iraqis, Libyans, etc, ad infinitum).
What is astounding is that there are zero consequences for America, Britain and Frances multiple war criminals, yet they all find the ICC and two are signatories.
What is also astounding is the absolute evil of these animals. Because that’s what they are. Sick animals feeding like vampires of human misery.
Cursed in the life and beyond. For them, let he’ll be real as there is no justice on Earth.
#scipio “At last! Someone has noticed – thanks Larry.”
Well, I did, a few days ago:
https://www.dailypundit.com/dailypundit.wordpress/2023/04/20/hey-why-arent-our-usual-tactics-working-any-more/
“If two neighbors are fighting, there’s an Englishman that has visited one of them yesterday”
Irish proverb
Business is business. Show me the money. Nothing personal. Etc., etc., etc..
Is there a power struggle in Sudan… yes. Is it friendly…. no, maybe, who knows?
Either way, Russia could still get docking facilities. Would it be politically secure…. lap of the gods I think.
Unsure about the following piece from UnHerd. They can be dodgey, they can be a curates egg, they can be on the money sometimes.
https://unherd.com/2023/04/how-wagner-plundered-sudans-gold/?=refinnar
If the Rapid Security Force (RSF) of Dagalo trained 40,000 troops for the war in Yemen, it stands to reason that they might need a new field of action if the war in Yemen came to an end as a result of the Chinese-brokered Iran-Saudi rapprochement. That might have triggered the conflict in Sudan. Armed men who have no other skills than fighting, might find it hard to reintegrate into civil society. Or maybe somebody, the US, Dagalo, or whoever, found a new job for them.