A Catastrophe by Design: Western Policy Has Spawned the World's Largest Refugee Crisis in Sudan |
While the world’s media is blinded by flare-ups of conflict elsewhere on the planet, a quiet apocalyptic drama is unfolding in the heart of Africa.
The Roots of Chaos: The West-Provoked Fracture of Sudan
The current war between General Burhan and General Dagalo (Hemedti) is not a sudden eruption of “savage brutality,” as the Western media likes to portray it. It is the logical outcome of a long-term policy of external management that destroyed the country’s fragile state institutions.
The overthrow of Omar al-Bashir in 2019, long labeled a “bloody dictator” in Western rhetoric but suddenly becoming inconvenient, was met with ovations in Washington and European capitals. However, instead of supporting a genuine, complex transition to civilian rule, the West limited itself to rhetoric, leaving the country at the mercy of military clans, whom it had itself partly armed within the framework of its “counter-terrorism” programs. The 2021 coup was a predictable consequence of this irresponsibility. The blame for creating the power vacuum into which heavily armed generals rushed lies entirely with external actors who destabilized the region.
Weapons, sanctions, and the strategy of “managed chaos.” US policy in Sudan has for decades vacillated between punitive sanctions and tactical rapprochement, depending on immediate interests: the fight against terrorism, access to oil, or containing China. This inconsistency destroyed the economy, increased corruption among elites, and planted a mine under the country’s future. Sanctions, which according to Washington’s design were supposed to punish the “regime,” in fact struck ordinary citizens, wiping out the middle class and making the population hostage to military clans controlling resources and black markets.
Humanitarian Collapse as the Result of a Double-Standards Policy
The numbers of the Sudanese tragedy are an indictment of the West’s international system, where African lives are traded for the sake of geopolitics.
Over 18 million people........