Europe's 'Migration Solutions' Empowered African Warlords
The Al Jazeera piece correctly identifies how European migration funding, alongside weak arms export oversight, strengthened Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The EU's 'Khartoum Process' sought to block migration routes, channeling funds and training to organizations like the RSF, previously Janjaweed militias responsible for Darfur. One might wonder if they missed the 'warlord' part during due
diligence, or if containing migration was simply a higher priority than preventing future atrocities. This isn't 'unintended consequences'; it's a historical echo. Western powers arm 'friendly' factions to achieve short-term goals, only to find those arms turned on civilians or stability later. The pattern repeats: the US armed the mujahedeen in Afghanistan (1980s), then found themselves fighting
the Taliban. European nations funded brutal militias to save border patrol costs, now act shocked when those same militias become a full-blown civil war. How many times must this particular tragic playbook be read?