Excerpt - Last year, human rights experts warned for many months that a brutal militia was about to overrun a major Sudanese city, El Fasher, and massacre inhabitants.
President Trump and other world leaders mostly shrugged. The militia went ahead and overran El Fasher, slaughtering some 60,000 people <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/opinion/sudan-genocide.html> in a few weeks. Now the same militia is besieging another major Sudanese city, El Obeid, which has half a million or more people, and is also threatening populations to the north in the Darfur region. Some inside El Obeid are starving, yet, again, Trump and many other world leaders seem largely indifferent. Preventing the slaughter would not require military action. It would not even require money. Put aside the arguments over whether humanitarian assistance is worthwhile. (But first, let me say that I believe the billions spent on the Iran war would have been better allocated to $2 bed nets to save children’s lives from malaria.) It may be that all we need to do to avert atrocities in Sudan is to speak up. But what American, European and United Nations officials won’t say openly is that the power behind the R.S.F. is the United Arab Emirates. Although the Emirates denies it, its backing of the R.S.F. is well established. Yet the Emirates is rich and influential, so it has become The Country That Must Not Be Named. Tough public comments and other pressure from Washington and European capitals might shame the Emirates enough for it to tell its murderous friends in Sudan to back off; similar pressure led the Emirates to pull most of its forces out from a brutal war in Yemen in 2019. Instead, world leaders today tiptoe around the Emirates’ role. The Emirates has particularly close financial ties to the Trump family. Indeed, Trump’s family income surged last year partly because an investment firm <https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/us/politics/trump-financial-disclosure-crypto-windfall.html> tied to the Emirates paid hefty sums for a stake in the family’s main crypto company. “This won’t end until the Emirates are pressured to stop their advanced weapons superhighway to the R.S.F.,” said Nathaniel Raymond of the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, which closely follows the crisis in Sudan. “This war could end in two weeks if the R.S.F. entered an ammo drought because the Emirates decided it was no longer worth it.” *https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/opinion/sudan-atrocity-africa-rsf.html <https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/opinion/sudan-atrocity-africa-rsf.html>* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42434): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42434 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120234844/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
