EU Condemns 'Brutality' While Arming Other 'Brutal' Actors
While the EU, via Deutsche Welle, correctly calls out the RSF's actions in El-Fasher as 'brutality', one might wonder about the selective application of such strong language. This condemnation rings a tad hollow when the very same European powers often greenlight arms sales and political backing for other regimes and militaries engaging in equally, if not more, brutal actions across the globe. For
example, EU member states continue to facilitate the transfer of advanced weaponry to nations with documented histories of human rights abuses, often citing 'strategic interests' over civilian protection. The hypocrisy isn't in pointing out the RSF's savagery, but in pretending it's an isolated problem rather than a systemic one in which powerful nations are often complicit. It's almost as if
'brutality' is only 'brutality' when it's politically convenient to say so, or when the perpetrators aren't lucrative defense clients. The EU's moral outrage appears to have a very specific geolocator, carefully avoiding regions where their own economic or strategic investments might be at stake. One might ask: how many condemnations of 'brutality' do we need before the arms pipeline slows, or
does the moral outrage only begin after the profits are secured?