Regarding the War in Sudan: What Is New in the Saudi Crown Prince’s Talks with the President of the United States?

By Mohamed Jalal Ahmed Hashim

It seems the new development is that the President of the United States and his administration had been relying on a false narrative about the situation in Sudan—one that the Saudi Crown Prince has now corrected for them. What was this narrative that Trump relied on regarding Sudan? He said it himself: he believed there was no state and no government in Sudan.

So what is the new development? Logically, it is the correction of this misunderstanding!

Now let us ask: however this information was corrected, is it in favor of the Sudanese state led by General al-Burhan and the Sudanese government led by Kamal Idris? Or is it in favor of the imaginary “Foundation Government” led by the hopeless Mohamed al-Hassan al-Ta’aishi?
To answer this question, we must examine the dominant Western narrative—especially in the U.S. and Europe—about the proxy war currently being waged against Sudan. What is this narrative?

It says that the war is between an army “hijacked by the Islamists” on one side, and the Janjaweed militias created by the Islamists on the other, while the civilian forces (FFC / Taqaddum / Sumud / Ta’sis / Takhsees… etc.) supposedly stand in the middle, the ones expected to form a transitional government to “save the people from the Islamists” by stopping the war immediately (“The war must end”). This is the false narrative adopted by the U.S. administration and the Western bloc—its essence being that there is no government, no functioning state, only a hijacked army confronting Janjaweed militias, with an imagined “civilian” force in between.

So, what is new here?

1. According to the corrections made by the Saudi Crown Prince, it appears that there is a functioning state with institutions, and there is a government carrying out its duties despite the war.

2. According to the Crown Prince, this war is not between an army hijacked by Islamists and Janjaweed militias created by Islamists.

3. According to the Crown Prince, the “civilian forces” relied upon in the false narrative are not what they are portrayed to be; rather, they are nothing more than a collection of disconnected elites—some say a group of comprador agents—well known to America and its imperialist affiliates, who manufacture such groups to serve their agendas.

But is this really the new development?
Did the U.S. (and Western Europe behind it)—with all its universities, think tanks, and Nobel Prize–winning scholars—truly wait for the Saudi Crown Prince to cross the Atlantic to correct such a trivial fact? Something as simple as “your undershirt is inside out”?
And after all this, we still find some foolish comprador types shouting: “Thank you, Sa’adouk!” Indeed.

The real new development is one of two things:

First:
The U.S. and the imperialist forces have realized that their plan has failed in Sudan, thanks to the people’s steadfast support for their state institutions and their unity with the armed forces. Therefore, they now want to exit this war “like a hair pulled out of dough,” while the UAE, Chad, Haftar, the Janjaweed, Ta’sis, Takhsees, FFC/Taqaddum/Sumud/Su’oud can all “drink from the sea until they are full.”

Second:
The U.S. and the imperialist forces are now working to introduce major revisions to the war scenario against the Sudanese people and the independent, sovereign Sudanese state.
And as the saying goes: today’s news may cost money—tomorrow it will be free.