{"id":1509312,"date":"2024-12-22T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1509312"},"modified":"2024-12-22T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:10:00","slug":"bloomberg-is-manufacturing-consent-for-more-western-meddling-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/bloomberg-is-manufacturing-consent-for-more-western-meddling-in-sudan\/1509312\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Is Manufacturing Consent For More Western Meddling In Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bloomberg Is Manufacturing Consent For More Western Meddling In Sudan<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The pretext is to jointly contain Russian and Iranian influence in the broader region amidst their recent setbacks in the Levant…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bloomberg published a detailed piece on Wednesday about how \u201cRussian Guns, Iranian Drones Are Fueling Sudan\u2019s Brutal Civil War<\/a>\u201d. The content is self-explanatory and presents the Sudanese Armed Forces\u2019 (SAF) change of fortune in the nearly two-year-long civil war as the result of those two\u2019s backing. Russia provides fuel, arms, and jet components while Iran supplies arms and drones in exchange for privileged access to Sudan\u2019s mineral wealth (particularly gold) and the promise of Red Sea naval bases.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Russian modus operandi builds upon the model explained\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0in early 2023 whereby Moscow provides military support to its Global South partners to defend them from externally connected threats to their national models of democracy in exchange for resource and other rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s approach is similar but more ideologically driven given the SAF\u2019s closeness with political Islam since former leader Omar al-Bashir\u2019s rise to power in 1989. Both want to make up for recent setbacks in the Levant.<\/p>\n

Russia risks losing its bases in Syria following the\u00a0joint American-Turkish regime change<\/a>\u00a0there while Iran\u2019s regional Resistance Axis partners have\u00a0taken a beating<\/a>\u00a0at the hands of Israel. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Egypt and Turkiye are also allegedly backing the SAF while the UAE and its Libyan ally Haftar are accused of supporting their Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rivals. Even so, Emirati mineral companies are still active in the SAF-controlled Port Sudan that serves as the country\u2019s temporary capital, thus highlighting the complexity of this conflict.<\/p>\n

Readers should also be reminded that \u201cRussia\u2019s Veto Of The UNSC Resolution On Sudan Saved It From A Neocolonialist Plot<\/a>\u201d last month after the UK tried to turn it into a Western vassal by unsuccessfully attempting to create the legal pretext for a foreign military intervention there to that end.<\/p>\n

Such a threat still remains though as suggested by Bloomberg\u2019s latest piece, which is clearly aimed at manufacturing consent for more Western meddling there on the basis of jointly containing Russia and Iran.<\/p>\n

Trump 2.0 is expected to be tough on Iran, and while he himself wants to improve ties with Russia, he might be pressured by the hawkish forces around him into ramping up the US\u2019 involvement in Sudan so as to kill two birds with one stone by weakening their influence in the broader region.<\/strong> Both are on the backfoot as was earlier explained so the temptation to do so might be too enticing. This could take the form of more sanctions, clandestine arms shipments to the RSF, and intelligence support to that group.<\/p>\n

Anything more significant isn\u2019t expected since the continued Houthi threat makes a naval blockade unfeasible for now while a no-fly zone would require a sustained air campaign that none of the US\u2019 regional partners, first and foremost among them Egypt, supports. Cairo could also complicate whatever Washington wants to do since it has a land border with Sudan and considers the SAF \u201ctoo big to fail\u201d due to their shared interests vis-\u00e0-vis Ethiopia with whom both are feuding over its Grand Renaissance Dam.<\/p>\n

In any case, Bloomberg\u2019s article is meant to facilitate whatever more robust policy Trump 2.0 might promulgate towards Sudan, though it\u2019s of course also possible that he won\u2019t allow the US to get dragged deeper in what could turn into the next \u201cforever war\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the perspective of the US\u2019 grand strategic interests as his MAGA worldview interprets them, it\u2019s best for the US to stay out of this imbroglio and focus instead on\u00a0brokering peace in Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0in order to then \u201cPivot (back) to Asia\u201d for containing China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 12\/22\/2024 – 08:10<\/span><\/p>\n

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