Posted on 09/10/2023 6:32:15 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
At least 40 people were killed in an airstrike today (Sunday) on a market in southern Khartoum, Sudan, according to reports from local hospitals.
This is the highest number of civilian deaths since the outbreak of the civil war in the country at the beginning of last April.
According to estimates, in the last five months of the civil war, at least 7,500 people have been killed.
Throughout the period, various countries around the world tried to bring about an arrangement between the rebels and the government without success.
Last month, 34 people were killed in a similar shelling of the same market in the Sudanese capital, with many children...
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All Trump's fault, of course./sarc
I hope none of Bidens Afghanistan weapons were involved in this attack.
We should just start making these countries colonies again.
The single best thing we could do is ignore them. Let all of the belligerents in this world kill each other off and wait for better days.
“We should just start making these countries colonies again.”
I suspect that they started thinking that, given the events in Niger. Basically, the standard Western approach to Africa has been to use African proxy armies to do the dirty work in keeping our dictators in place. But the Africans are getting sick of that and won’t be our bitches in Niger, apparently.
That then only leaves one option, take over the countries with our own militaries - in other words, back to colonialism.
But there’s also a problem doing that - we’ve basically sent everything needed for ground wars to Ukraine, so we no longer can do anything beyond dropping bombs - and you cannot conquer people by just dropping bombs (the Neocons tried that on Serbia, no dice).
...so it looks as though we’ve traded control of Africa for the futile attempt to defeat Russia in Ukraine.
Be my guest. While you’re at it, manually clean out your drain’s garbage disposal while it’s running, and get in between two combatants in a barroom brawl.
It would be better if they were just going at it with assegai or the “big two-handed sword” that Kipling wrote about. Airstrikes in this region, however, is FUBAR.
“Here’s to yer, fuzzy-wuzzy, in yer home in the Sudan.”
Hell to the NO!
The Tower of Babel really cursed and did a number on Africans.
That isn’t sarcasm.
Further down, the article talks about a civil war between the government and rebels. So I suppose it was one side or the other. I'm guessing the rebels don't have planes, but I could be wrong. I also don't know if foreign allies are involved in the fighting.
Lots of poor journalism these days.
True, but if the result is 40 less members of the Islamic Cult, that is progress.
When most of today's journalism classes revolve around "D", "E", "I" or "Orange Man Bad", it's hard to construct an article based solely on facts.
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“The single best thing we could do is ignore them. Let all of the belligerents in this world kill each other off and wait for better days.”
So long as Iran, China or Russia are not supplying either side, you’re right. But we do have to ask where they got the capacity to do air strikes, aside from the fact that they’re targeting civilians. Tribal BS of some sort, no doubt. But where they got the kit is an important question. You don’t want to wake up and discover that a global rival suddenly owns Sudan, lock, stock and barrel. That’d be “colonial,” too.
Forgotten craft.
It was also the coming of the West, whether in the form of Islam or the European colonialist. Technologically more advanced nations saw their opportunities and took it. The Africans themselves were little better. The normal-statured Africans enslaved the pygmies, I recall. And the Islamists of Northern Sudan enslaved and murdered the Christians and animists in the South.
The West is dying a miserable death.
The next few years will be massively ugly.
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