U.S. Ally UAE Funds Mercenaries, Mainstream Media Calls It 'Sudan War'

The New Arab exposes the UAE's role in bankrolling Colombian mercenaries for the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan's Darfur region—a conflict the UN itself has flagged for ethnic cleansing. An AFP investigation detailed how these ex-soldiers are lured from poverty, shipped across continents to fight for Emirati interests. (Because 'democracy promotion' via proxies is always a good look.) While this

international shadow war unfolds, fueled by petrodollars from a critical U.S. and Israeli ally, American media largely focuses on the 'Sudan war' as a localized crisis. Conveniently absent from cable news chyrons is accountability for the UAE's destabilizing role, or the fact that these same U.S.-approved Gulf states are instrumental in global power plays. It makes one wonder: if a conflict is bad

enough for UN ethnic cleansing warnings, is it not bad enough for President Biden to ( gasp ) question an ally's checkbook diplomacy, especially when that ally also funds entities like the American Jewish Committee, among other lobbying groups?

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