**US Tries To Blame Russia For Sudan "Deep State" War**
US Tries To Blame Russia For Sudan "Deep State" War
_Authored by Andrew Korybko via The Automatic Earth blog,_ (https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2023/04/us-tries-blame-russia-for-sudan-deep-state-war/)
**Debunking The Latest Fake News Narrative**
CNN published an exclusive piece on Thursday alleging that “Evidence emerges of Russia’s Wagner arming militia leader battling Sudan’s army (https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/20/africa/wagner-sudan-russia-libya-intl/index.html)”. They claim that satellite imagery shows increased Russian military transport activity between Libya and Syria in the run-up to Sudan’s “deep state” war (https://korybko.substack.com/p/sudans-deep-state-war-could-have). According to CNN, this confirms rumors that General Haftar is supplying Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (“Hamedti”) with surface-to-air missiles (SAM) on behalf of Wagner.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published their own exclusive piece the day prior on Wednesday alleging that “Libyan Militia and Egypt’s Military Back Opposite Sides in Sudan Conflict (https://www.wsj.com/articles/libyan-militia-and-egypts-military-back-opposite-sides-in-sudan-conflict-87206c3b)”, so these two stories complement one another. Both Hamedti (https://tass.com/world/1607131) and Wagner (https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2023/04/19/Russia-s-private-Wagner-Group-denies-it-is-operating-in-Sudan) have denied these claims, however. The Sudanese Ambassador to Russia also confirmed (https://en.sputniknews.africa/20230420/ambassador-sudanese-leaders-not-asking-for-political-asylum-in-russia-1058730785.html) that “Russia is a friendly country to us so we have been in direct contact with \[the\] Russian Foreign Ministry since the very beginning of those events last Saturday.”
That diplomat’s reaffirmation of Sudan’s close ties with Russia (https://korybko.substack.com/p/analyzing-russias-strategic-interests) is especially important since he represents the government that’s internationally recognized as being led by Chief General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, who commands the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and is one of the two figures vying for power. At present, Khartoum therefore doesn’t extend credence to the emerging US-led Western Mainstream Media (MSM) narrative that Russia is arming the RSF via Haftar-Wagner, but that could soon change.
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**Preconditioning The Public For Another Proxy War**
Unless the present three-day Eid ceasefire (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/21/sudans-rsf-announces-72-hour-ceasefire-amid-khartoum-fighting) holds and leads to the start of peace talks that ultimately end this “deep state” war, which is unlikely since both sides made clear their intent to completely destroy the other, then this conflict is expected to resume in the near future. Should the SAF fail to defeat the RSF and possibly even be placed on the backfoot, then Burhan might gamble that it’s in his best interests to parrot the MSM’s anti-Russian accusations in an attempt to receive direct Western military support.
That scenario isn’t all that far-fetched either considering that the Associated Press (https://apnews.com/article/united-states-sudan-djibouti-evacuation-2773f4922611aeed462652f178745688) and Politico (https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/20/us-troops-sudan-embassy-evacuation-00093038) both cited unnamed officials on Thursday to report that the US is assembling additional troops in nearby Djibouti to prepare for the possible evacuation of Americans from Sudan. This pretext could easily be exploited to arm the SAF and/or attack the RSF, especially if the Pentagon claims that the latter tried stopping its operation by building upon last week’s claim (https://tass.com/world/1605625) that its forces shot at an armored US diplomatic vehicle.
In the event that Burhan repeats the MSM’s emerging anti-Russian narrative and promises to rubbish Sudan’s naval base deal with Moscow upon defeating the RSF, then the Biden Administration can “justify” its military intervention on the basis of “defending Sudanese democracy from a Kremlin coup”. The public would then be told that the latest conflict was sparked by Russia’s support for the “insurgent” RSF, which the MSM would attribute to its interests in defending Wagner’s mining operations there.
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This would predictably precede an unprecedented but preplanned information warfare campaign (https://korybko.substack.com/p/axios-exposed-frances-infowar-against) painting Russia as a “destabilizing” force in Africa, which would be aimed at counteracting its hitherto …
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