Sudan's 'Siege Broken' narrative ignores the puppeteers pulling the strings
📰 THE STORY: Al Jazeera reports the Sudanese army successfully broke a nearly two-year siege by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the key town of Dilling, citing it as an important route for supply lines. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The current 'civil war' in Sudan isn't spontaneous. It's the latest eruption in a long history of external manipulation. The RSF itself
emerged from the Janjaweed militias, armed and enabled by Omar al-Bashir's government, which the US and its allies were content to overlook when it suited their geopolitical interests. More recently, the 2019 coup that ousted al-Bashir, and the 2021 coup that undermined the civilian-military transition, were tacitly, and sometimes explicitly, backed by various regional players like Egypt, Saudi
Arabia, and the UAE, all seeking to secure their strategic and economic interests, particularly Red Sea access and agricultural investment. The silence from Western powers on these coups, and their focus purely on 'democratic transition' only when it suits their agenda, is deafening. Double Standard: The media is quick to cover isolated 'victories' or 'setbacks' in Sudan as if it's a contained
conflict. Yet, the same outlets dissect every arms shipment to Ukraine, or every alleged Russian 'provocation,' while largely ignoring the massive arms flows, financial backing, and diplomatic support funneling into Sudan's warring factions from across the Middle East and Africa. When it's 'our' side arming a proxy conflict, it's called 'stability aid' or 'counter-terrorism.' When an adversary