[ Repub ] And Suddenly, Sudan

The Anglo-Saxons are at it again—dabbling in regime change, this time using as their proxy a man wanted by the ICC for war crimes. Everything’s going to be just fine.

We’re republishing, free to read, our April 18, 2023 article—the one in which we predicted the massacres now tearing through Darfur. In it, we laid out who’s really responsible—beyond Hemedti and his Rapid Support Forces, formerly known as the Janjaweed.

The main financiers and suppliers of heavy weaponry to the RSF are the United Arab Emirates, with the blessing of the West. And because the RSF—despite all the foreign backing—can’t hold their own against Sudan’s regular army, they’ve turned their fury against Darfur’s civilian populations.

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Want to understand what’s really happening in Sudan? Watch that France 24 video only if you’re studying how to misinform. This is not a story of two men clashing. Every time the media reduces it to personalities, it’s to hide the truth.

France 24 doesn’t mention—what a convenient coincidence—that the “Rapid Support Forces” (RSF) are just the Janjaweed under a new name: those nomadic Arab tribes, the so-called “desert riders,” whom Omar al-Bashir deployed, as has always been the pattern in the region, to discipline the Fur, the sedentary ethnic group of Darfur (in Arabic, Dar means “home,” hence Darfur: “the home, the territory of the Fur”).

Nor does the France 24 reporter, who clearly knows next to nothing about the subject, point out that the RSF’s leader, Mohamed Hamdane Dagalo—known as “Hemedti”—is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes committed in Darfur.

As early as 2003, the Anglo-Saxons—Americans at the forefront—started screaming “genocide” in Darfur for purely political ends. A brutal war, yes, but no more horrific than the countless other conflicts that have drenched the Lake Chad basin in blood for over forty years—one of the world’s most violent regions.

Today, the Anglo-Saxons, joined by the catastrophic Norwegians and the Emirates, are again using a war criminal as their “proxy.” Business as usual. After the Nazis in Ukraine, nothing shocks anyone anymore.

RSF commander Mohamed Hamdane Dagalo is now one of Sudan’s richest men. He controls the gold trade, accounting for 40% of Sudan’s export value. Khartoum, meanwhile, controls the pipelines carrying South Sudanese oil to Port Sudan.

The RSF were the instrument for “reintegrating” the Janjaweed militias into the state security apparatus. They operate under the army’s command in the field, but otherwise answer to the formidable Sudanese intelligence service, the NISS.

So why, with the blessing of the “international community,” reintegrate people considered war criminals—genocidaires—until as recently as 2013?

Quite simply, Sudan and the NISS quickly proved to be critical allies in the fight against ISIS, particularly for their ability to turn jihadists en route to Syria or Iraq. Their intelligence contributions were—and remain—priceless. Since the Khartoum process of 2014, it has been the RSF, the Janjaweed, tasked with policing illegal migration from the Horn of Africa—a hotbed of jihadism—toward the European Union.

Now you see the immediate danger this “little party” organized by the Americans and their “allies” poses to the region—and to Europe—both in terms of terrorism and illegal migration.

And all of this, why? Because Russia plans to establish a naval base at Port Sudan, under an agreement signed November 13, 2022, with the ruling junta in Khartoum (originally negotiated under Omar al-Bashir).

Picture the Russian navy with a base on the Red Sea: the ability to protect its own—and allied—Iranian, Chinese, and Indian oil shipments; the U.S. Navy losing control; sanctions becoming meaningless because ships can no longer be intercepted in the Red Sea. Picture a Russian fleet securing trade routes across the Indian Ocean and guaranteeing access through the Suez Canal.

So everything must be done to stop Russia from building this base—by any means necessary—even if it means provoking another humanitarian catastrophe in a country already starved and destabilized for years. Even if it fuels a jihadist resurgence. Just as the U.S. created a humanitarian disaster when pushing for South Sudan’s independence—a puppet state ravaged since 2010 by interethnic conflicts even deadlier than the 25-year war it fought against Khartoum—because of oil. And now, according to Bloomberg, the Russians have just sunk the U.S.-Saudi oil deal that once counterbalanced OPEC.

Add to this the Sudanese intelligence service’s long-standing close cooperation with China, which has mining and oil interests in Sudan, and you see this as the latest chapter in the U.S. retreat from the Middle East—a retreat that accelerated with Joe Biden’s election.

The Anglo-Saxons’ ignorance and shortsightedness are so extreme that, in orchestrating this coup, they bet on the wrong horse. Unlike the Sudanese army—a coherent, well-armed, well-commanded force capable of combined operations—the RSF are merely a patchwork of tribal militias from the periphery, often at odds with each other. Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, having literally eliminated all rivals, has made enemies whose loyalty Khartoum can easily buy—by promising a share of confiscated wealth. Gold mines, anyone?

The RSF lack heavy weaponry. They are “technicals”—infantry in pickup trucks. The media portrays them as a “formidable force.” Maybe against unarmed civilians. But the RSF’s 100,000 men—an inflated number; closer to 40,000 including reserves—won’t stand a chance against the regular army, equipped with heavy artillery and, crucially, battle-hardened air power. Being hunted across the desert by combat planes and helicopters is unpleasant. Being shelled in the cities is worse.

The proof is in the battlefield.

Résultat d’une passe au canon d’un MIG 29 de l’armée de l’air soudanaise sur des unités des RSF à Khartoum.

Unless, of course, some of the weapons meant for Ukraine were conveniently rerouted to Sudan. Haven’t we already seen them appear in the Lake Chad basin?

In any case, the Sudanese army has already taken the RSF headquarters in Khartoum. What remains to be seen is the situation across the rest of the country. Keep in mind that the RSF will struggle to retreat to Darfur, where the local population is unlikely to welcome them. This spells disaster for civilians, who will almost certainly face massacres.