When the Destruction of a Nation Becomes a Political Project
By Amjad Farid Al-Tayeb
The frenzied effort by forces aligned with Abu Dhabi to forcibly drag Sudan into the vortex of the American–Israeli–Iranian conflict—through a relentless stream of misinformation and manipulation aimed at inviting further foreign intervention and encouraging additional strikes on the country as part of the aggression carried out by their Emirati sponsor and its local proxy, the Rapid Support Forces militia—does not reflect an ideological stance or a legitimate political disagreement. Rather, it reveals a profound moral rupture with both the nation and its people. What these actors are expressing is not a political judgment; it is a crude manifestation of deep estrangement and hostility toward their own country and society.
It is difficult for any rational mind to comprehend how a politician who claims to care about public affairs could knowingly pave the way for, and justify, the destruction of their own country at the hands of ruthless foreign powers. How do these individuals aspire to rule a nation they are prepared to reduce to rubble? What authority do they imagine exercising over a land whose infrastructure has been burned and whose foundations of life have been destroyed?
If any of them were to govern Sudan atop the ruins left by the foreign aggression they seek to invite, how would they address the country’s electricity crisis if the Roseires Dam or the Merowe Dam were bombed or destroyed? What meaning would power or politics retain if devastation reached the Radiation and Oncology Hospital or the Heart Hospital, institutions on which Sudanese patients depend? And what future do they promise the Sudanese people if institutions such as the University of Khartoum or the University of Gezira were reduced to ruins?
In truth, their incendiary rhetoric does not merely reveal an error in judgment; it exposes a complete detachment from the daily realities of Sudanese citizens and the basic needs they claim the competence to manage. Education, healthcare, electricity, and the essential services upon which people’s lives depend in Sudan appear in their calculations only as collateral losses—sacrifices deemed acceptable in the marketplace of political grandstanding. This is to say nothing of principles such as sovereignty and national belonging.
These are people who seem to despise themselves even more than they despise their own people and country. They have descended to a profound depth of political depravity, where the blood of Sudanese citizens and the resources of the nation have become mere bargaining chips in a cynical game of political trade.
