U.S. Media Discovers 'Outside Powers' Fuel Wars, Ignores Its Own Arms Deals
ABC News reports on how 'outside powers' are fueling Sudan's brutal civil war, (how insightful, thank you for those Pulitzer-worthy observations, ABC). This framing conveniently omits the industrial-military complex's well-documented role in stoking global instability, often creating the very vacuums these 'outside powers' exploit. Take, for instance, the decades of US interventionism across the
Middle East and Africa—from arming proxy forces to directly destabilizing regimes, creating 'humanitarian crises' that then require 'intervention'. (It’s a cycle, not a coincidence.) We might ask which 'outside powers' supply weapons to nearly every hot conflict on the planet. One might find the top exporter is the United States, selling over $238 billion in arms between 2018 and 2022, as reported
by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). That’s over 40% of the global arms trade. When ABC decries 'outside powers' funding a conflict, one wonders if they bothered to check their own government's balance sheets first. Or perhaps, for some, the term 'outside power' only applies when it's not Washington.