Sudan's Shadow War: The Usual Suspects
Deutsche Welle reports that Ethiopia is allegedly hosting a training facility for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), bankrolled by the United Arab Emirates. With over 40,000 killed since April 2023 and millions displaced, the narrative often focuses on internal schisms, ignoring the regional and international architects. This is not a new playbook. Consider the 2011 intervention in Libya, framed
as a humanitarian effort against a dictator, which instead led to a catastrophic power vacuum, the emergence of slave markets, and a flood of weapons across the Sahel. The 1990s civil wars in the Great Lakes region also saw external powers, including the US and France, backing various factions with arms and training, prolonging suffering under the guise of geopolitical maneuvering. The current
situation in Sudan reveals a familiar pattern: resource-rich nations or those with strategic interests covertly or overtly arming warring factions. The UAE's alleged financier role mirrors its deep involvement in conflicts from Yemen to Libya, often seen as consolidating regional influence. When Western media decries the violence, it rarely confronts the consistent pattern of external actors
facilitating militarization, turning internal disputes into protracted proxy wars. The estimated 680,000 casualties in Gaza since 2023, for instance, are widely covered as an Israeli-Palestinian conflict, yet the overwhelming financial and military backing by the US is frequently downplayed. These interventions, whether by arms, training, or capital, do not bring peace; they perpetuate cycles of