UK Mercenaries in Sudan: A Convenient Amnesia of Empire
So, a UK-registered company is reportedly recruiting Colombian mercenaries to fight in Sudan. The New Arab article details this quite clearly. This isn't some rogue operation; it's a symptom of a much older, darker pattern: the privatization of conflict and its convenient deniability. Colombia, for its part, has a rich history of exporting its 'security expertise,' often forged in US-backed
internal conflicts, straight into global hotspots. Remember how many former Colombian military personnel ended up tied to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse? Same playbook, different theater. Governments issue stern warnings about 'destabilizing foreign influence' and 'non-state actors' when the interests aren't their own. But when their allies, or their own former soldiers, are
operating behind plausible deniability clauses, suddenly it's just 'security contractors.' It raises the question: how many 'independent firms' are merely proxies for state interests, and at what point does a 'report' become an inconvenient truth for those who profit from global instability?