For more than a year, Sudan has been enmeshed in a vicious civil war and suffered horrendous civilian casualties. Its storied capital, Khartoum, the “jewel on the Nile,” has been destroyed. Despite the devastation, it is a forgotten war, lost in the intense media coverage of Russia’s war in Europe and Israel’s in Gaza. But behind this conflict, like the other two, is Vladimir Putin. On February 24, 2022, Putin invaded Ukraine without provocation or justification. On Putin’s last birthday, October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists trained by Russian mercenaries massacred Israelis, and Tel Aviv launched a war that has levelled Gaza, killed tens of thousands, and displaced 2 million. Now, Russia is behind the civil war in Sudan. It provides mercenary soldiers who fight and plunder the country’s gold reserves to help finance Russia’s war in Ukraine and other global misadventures. Few realize that Sudan is another Russian-generated tragedy or that it has become, according to Samantha Power, the head of USAID, “the single largest humanitarian crisis on the planet.”
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