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Ive serious worries about the RSF providing public services. Firstly from a PR point of view its disastrously effective. Not only does it help whitewash their image it undermines critical voices to them, because predictably we’ll oppose the growth of the RSF (1/3)
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Now to a lot in Sudan, particularly in rural areas this looks like we don’t want to the RSF to provide services like healthcare etc.This simultaneously improves the image of the RSF while damaging the image of its critics. Many won’t won’t understand why we oppose
#SudanUprising
The RSF isn’t providing these services in addition to legitimate state institutions its is providing them instead of them, weakening their image & effectiveness of while simultaneously strengthening its own. This is a slow attempt to erode the state from within
#Sudan
Without being melodramatic Hemedti’s take over from within is very similar to how the Nazis took over Germany. Under the guise of Democracy the SS silently usurped the Army & the Gestapo the police. When the elites who’d empowered the Nazis realised their mistake it was too late
If we’re not careful #Sudan as a state could easily be replaced by a militia republic & this ceremonial civilian Government may turnout to be the most dangerous distraction. As the Nation is focused on Hamdok, Hemedti does as he pleases
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Victory or Egypt was the warning. That we must be careful to learn lessons from Egypt’s failed revolution النصر أو مصر
But the warning should’ve been Victory or Sudan more specifically old Sudan. Sudan’s history has been destructively playing on loop for 60 yrs
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The cycle begins with the Military making a pact with a political power base to rule Sudan. In 1958 General Abboud makes a pact between the Army & the tribal political sects of the Ansar & Al Khatmiya
In 1969 Colonel Nimeri makes a pact with leftist politicians
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1. Sudan’s economic crisis is a severe supply side crisis which the regime has tried to tackle by boosting consumption. The women in this video tells that oranges sell for the equivalent of 0.3 USD that is a price comparable to what you would pay in the UK
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2. A country with high labour costs due to a per capita income now 40 times higher than Sudan’s that has to import oranges, that has one of the highest fuel duties in the world making transportation extremely expensive should not be able to match Sudan on the price of agri goods
3. This is able to happen because Sudan’s economic system is extremely broken. Sudanese agricultural producers should be able to massively undercut the costs of Agri goods in a place like the U.K. due to cheap labour, transport & an abundance of agricultural land
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