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[00:00:00] Sudan isn't collapsing on its own. It's [00:00:02] being taken apart. [music] And behind [00:00:04] every headline about civil war is a [00:00:07] story of US empire greed and betrayal. [00:00:10] While headlines point to the UAE as the [00:00:12] culprit behind Sudan's humanitarian [00:00:14] disaster, the truth runs far deeper and [00:00:17] more sinister. For over two decades, [00:00:19] it's been Washington's official policy [00:00:22] to turn Sudan into the failed state we [00:00:24] see today. as part of a new cold war [00:00:27] against China, Russia, and Iran, and a [00:00:30] campaign to destroy any nation that [00:00:33] dares to stand with Palestinian [00:00:35] liberation. What's happening in Sudan [00:00:37] isn't another African tragedy. It's an [00:00:40] architectural design of US imperialism, [00:00:44] where starvation, displacement, and [00:00:46] genocide are the tools of Washington's [00:00:49] official policy. In Sudan today, [music] [00:00:52] entire cities have been leveled, [00:00:54] hospitals bombed, women raped and [00:00:57] executed on camera, families [music] are [00:01:00] starving, while Sudan's gold is being [00:01:03] stripped and flown to Dubai. Sudan once [00:01:07] stood at the heart of the access of [00:01:09] resistance, a bridge between Iran and [00:01:12] Palestine and Lebanon, a logistical [00:01:15] lifeline for weapons to Gaza and South [00:01:18] Lebanon and a strategic ally in the Red [00:01:21] Sea. That defiance sealed [music] its [00:01:24] fate. Like Libya and Iraq before it, [00:01:27] Sudan has been targeted for destruction, [00:01:30] punished for its independence and its [00:01:33] solidarity with Palestine. And [music] [00:01:35] at the center of this assault are two of [00:01:38] Washington's most reliable proxies, [00:01:41] Israel and the United Arab Emirates. [00:01:44] They've been deployed by Washington to [00:01:47] do what the empire can no longer do [00:01:49] openly, to wage [music] wars by proxy, [00:01:52] seize resources, and crush the [00:01:54] resistance from within. Israel provides [00:01:58] intelligence and strategy, while the UAE [00:02:00] provides the money, [music] the weapons, [00:02:02] and the cover. Together they carry out [00:02:05] the dirty work of US [music] [00:02:06] imperialism. Now Sudan sits on a fault [00:02:09] line connecting the Red Sea, the Sahel, [00:02:12] and the Horn of [music] Africa, regions [00:02:14] central to China's belt and road [00:02:16] initiative in Russia's trade networks. [00:02:19] Now, [music] its ports could link [00:02:20] Africa's mineral wealth to a new [00:02:23] multi-olar economy no longer dependent [00:02:26] on the US dollar. For [music] [00:02:28] Washington, that is an existential [00:02:31] threat. China's belt and road offers [00:02:33] nations like Sudan [music] an escape [00:02:35] from the IMF, the World Bank, and the [00:02:38] petro dollar system that have trapped [00:02:40] the global south [music] in debt for [00:02:42] decades. If Sudan joined that network, [00:02:45] it could connect [music] Africa's gold, [00:02:47] oil, and mineral wealth directly to [00:02:49] Beijing, bypassing Western control [00:02:52] [music] entirely. And that's what [00:02:54] Washington fears most. By collapsing [00:02:57] Sudan, it weakens both the [music] [00:02:59] access of resistance and the belt and [00:03:02] road initiative backed by bricks, [00:03:05] blocking Beijing, Moscow, and Thran from [00:03:08] gaining a foothold in Africa. It's the [00:03:12] same cold war logic that destroyed [00:03:13] countries like Libya, Syria, and Yemen. [00:03:16] If a nation rejects Western capital and [00:03:19] seeks independence, it must be [00:03:22] destabilized, divided, [music] [00:03:24] and starved into submission. and Israel [00:03:27] and the UAE deployed [music] by [00:03:29] Washington have become the empire's [00:03:32] regional enforcers [music] controlling [00:03:34] the Red Sea, isolating Iran, and looting [00:03:37] Sudan's gold and oil under the banner of [00:03:40] stability [music] [00:03:41] and democracy. Now, the destruction of [00:03:44] Sudan didn't begin yesterday. It began [00:03:48] decades ago with a long campaign to make [00:03:50] Sudan [music] [00:03:51] ungovernable. [00:03:53] In 2019, after years of sanctions, [00:03:56] isolation, and CIA [music] interference, [00:03:59] Washington and its Gulf allies [00:04:01] orchestrated the fall of Omar al-Bashir [00:04:04] under the illusion of [music] democratic [00:04:06] reform. In his final years, Bashir [00:04:09] actually tried to win the West's [00:04:11] approval. The same fatal [music] mistake [00:04:14] Muhammad Gaddafi made. Now, if you [00:04:16] remember, Muhammad Gaddafi famously [00:04:19] shook the hands with Tony Blair and [00:04:21] agreed to disarm for [music] an exchange [00:04:23] for political survival. But the empire [00:04:26] couldn't allow for Libya to become an [00:04:29] independent state where Kaddafi wanted [00:04:31] to create an African gold currency to [00:04:34] unite the [music] continent and ditch [00:04:35] the US dollar. So NATO invaded and [00:04:38] Kaddafi was disposed of within a blink [00:04:41] of an eye. Dragged [music] through the [00:04:42] streets of Tripoli after being sodomized [00:04:45] with a machete. So it's so I mean that [00:04:47] is the land of unconfirmed. We came, we [00:04:51] saw, he [laughter] died. [00:04:54] >> Did it have anything to do with your [00:04:55] visit? [00:04:55] >> No. I'm sure it did. [00:04:57] >> Omar al-Bashir. Well, he tried to [00:04:59] negotiate with the US, and he ended up [00:05:01] turning to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, [00:05:05] agreeing to [music] cut ties with Iran [00:05:07] in exchange for political survival. [00:05:09] Well, he did [music] everything they [00:05:11] asked for. And they toppled him anyway [00:05:14] because the empire doesn't forgive and [00:05:17] it [music] does not forget. They wanted [00:05:19] a compliant Sudan, not a sovereign one. [00:05:23] and they wanted to ensure it would never [00:05:25] again stand with Iran, with Palestine, [00:05:28] with Yemen or Lebanon again. So [music] [00:05:31] to justify that outcome, the empire had [00:05:33] to make Sudan look like a monster. In [00:05:36] the early 2000s, Washington labeled it a [00:05:39] state sponsor of terrorism, [music] not [00:05:42] for violence, but for its alliances. [00:05:45] Then came Darur, the perfect emotional [00:05:48] weapon. This was the humanitarian [00:05:50] theater that paved the way for NATO's [00:05:52] destruction of Libya. But [music] it was [00:05:54] first rehearsed inside of Sudan. Western [00:05:58] think tanks, NOS's, [music] and [00:06:00] intelligence agencies turned a regional [00:06:03] conflict into a global spectacle. Do you [00:06:06] remember when celebrities [music] like [00:06:07] George Clooney and Angelina Jolie became [00:06:10] the moral front of an imperial campaign [00:06:13] speaking of genocide and saving [music] [00:06:15] Sudan? While US and Israeli intelligence [00:06:19] quietly mapped out all of the oil and [00:06:22] gold fields and reserves, as George [00:06:25] [music] Clooney called for intervention, [00:06:27] the CIA was arming the proxies. As [00:06:30] Angelina Jolie pleaded for human rights, [00:06:32] Western [music] and Israeli linked [00:06:34] allies backed warlords. And even Jolie [00:06:37] has since hinted that celebrity activism [00:06:40] can be manipulated to [music] serve [00:06:41] Western agendas, turning compassion into [00:06:44] consent for war. By the time Albashir [00:06:48] [music] fell, the world had accepted the [00:06:50] lie that Sudan was a failed state. Its [00:06:54] people primed [music] for foreign [00:06:56] salvation, its resources already marked [00:07:00] for extraction. [music] [00:07:01] With al-Bashir gone, the UAE rose as [00:07:05] Washington [music] and Tel Aviv's new [00:07:07] enforcer. The UAE was once known for [00:07:10] [music] its skyscrapers and malls. But [00:07:12] Abu Dhabi became a hub for [music] proxy [00:07:15] wars, financing coups, arming militias, [00:07:18] and laundering blood gold under the [00:07:21] banner of counterterrorism. [00:07:23] Through the Abraham Accords, Israel [00:07:25] [music] and the UAE fused Emirati money, [00:07:28] Israeli intelligence, and Western arms [00:07:31] into one war machine, and Sudan [music] [00:07:34] became their next laboratory. As Sudan's [00:07:37] people [music] starve and face a [00:07:40] genocide, its resources are stripped [00:07:43] bare. The vultures are [music] feeding. [00:07:46] And one of those companies is called Al [00:07:48] Juned Multi-Activities, [00:07:50] owned by RSF commander [music] [00:07:52] Hamemedi's family seized Sudan's gold [00:07:56] mines, turning blood soaked [music] [00:07:58] earth into its private fortune. Another, [00:08:01] a moriral alliance for mining, backed by [00:08:04] the UAE, took over the Kushmine and [00:08:07] funneled gold through Dubai, [music] [00:08:10] erasing its origins before it hit global [00:08:12] markets. Western oil giant Schlumbberger [00:08:16] returned [music] [00:08:17] under the guise of reconstruction. Even [00:08:19] as famine spread and cities turned to [00:08:23] ash, [music] Sudan's economy was carved [00:08:25] up between the RSF and the Sudin armed [00:08:28] forces who profited off of [music] war [00:08:31] and smuggling while civilians starved. [00:08:35] The famine we see today isn't [music] a [00:08:37] byproduct. It is the weapon. The rapid [00:08:41] support forces didn't just appear out of [00:08:43] nowhere. They were created in 2015 [00:08:47] during the USbacked war on Yemen. The [00:08:50] UAE recruited thousands of Sudin [music] [00:08:53] fighters, many exjened as mercenaries [00:08:57] against Yemen's alsment. [00:08:59] They fought with Emirati funding and [00:09:01] [music] western weapons under [00:09:03] Washington's quiet approval. That war [00:09:06] gave the RSF training, funding, and [00:09:08] global connections, turning them into a [00:09:10] regional army for hire. They fought [00:09:13] Yemen's resistance yesterday, [music] [00:09:16] and today they're massacring civilians [00:09:18] in Kartum, Darur, [music] and beyond. [00:09:21] These are not tribal clashes. This is a [00:09:24] [music] genocide engineered and financed [00:09:26] by the same powers that once claimed to [00:09:29] bring democracy into Sudan. And since [00:09:33] 2023, Israel and the UAE have armed [00:09:36] [music] [00:09:36] and financed the RSF, ensuring their [00:09:39] grip on Sudan's gold and ports. Gold is [00:09:43] flowing from [music] Darur to Dubai, [00:09:45] refined and sold worldwide. Once [music] [00:09:48] melted, its origins vanish, but not its [00:09:52] blood. That wealth cycles through [00:09:55] western [music] banks, defense [00:09:57] contractors, and tech supply chains in [00:09:59] Tel Aviv, London, and New York. For [00:10:02] Israel, Sudan's collapse is strategic. [00:10:04] [music] It weakens Iran's allies, opens [00:10:07] African markets, and secures Red Sea [00:10:09] routes around Yemen's blockade. [music] [00:10:12] And while Yemen sacrifices to blockade [00:10:15] Israeli ships for Gaz, the UAE and its [00:10:18] [music] allies quietly keep Israel's [00:10:21] trade alive. It's the same imperial [00:10:24] pattern. Destabilize, demonize, and [00:10:27] [music] then divide. Every time the [00:10:30] target is a nation that stands with [00:10:32] Palestine, aligns with [music] China or [00:10:34] Iran, and refuses to bow. But make no [00:10:38] mistake, this isn't just [music] a war [00:10:39] on the resistance. It's a war on the [00:10:42] future of our world itself. Sudan's [00:10:45] [music] collapse sends a message, a [00:10:48] clear message to every African, an Asian [00:10:51] nation daring [music] to work with [00:10:53] Beijing or Moscow or Iran. Break the [00:10:56] dollar [music] and we'll break your [00:10:58] country. Sudan suffering isn't [00:11:01] collateral [music] damage. It's the cost [00:11:03] of resistance. As famine spreads and [00:11:06] children [music] die, gold still moves, [00:11:10] oil still flows and the empire, the US [00:11:13] empire still profits. They call it [00:11:16] [music] stability and democracy. But [00:11:19] what they've built is a system of [00:11:21] slavery [music] wrapped in the language [00:11:23] of democracy. Every nation that resists, [00:11:26] whether it's [music] Palestine, Yemen, [00:11:28] Iran, Lebanon, and now Sudan, [music] [00:11:32] faces the same fate. sanctions, proxy [00:11:35] wars, starvation, [music] and [00:11:36] propaganda. This is the architecture of [00:11:40] US imperialism, [music] the export of [00:11:43] so-called Western democracy against the [00:11:46] global south. Sudan is [music] not [00:11:48] another African tragedy. It is the front [00:11:52] line in humanity's struggle for freedom. [00:11:55] between the access [music] of assistance [00:11:57] and the access of resistance, between a [00:12:00] dying Western order and a world fighting [00:12:03] [music] to break free. And that's why [00:12:06] Sudan matters. It's where the war for a [00:12:10] free Palestine, [music] [00:12:11] the war on Africa, and the war against [00:12:14] China's multipolar ambitions all [00:12:17] converge. This is the face of modern-day [00:12:20] colonialism. I'm Manar [music] Adi and [00:12:23] this is Behind the Headlines for Mint [00:12:25] Press News.