Drones Strike Power Stations but Miss Their Real Target!

As I See

Adel El-Baz

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Anyone who believes that the drones launched by the Janjaweed from Ethiopian territory are targeting power stations and infrastructure for their own sake is deluding themselves. Their attacks carry multiple messages, directed both at domestic and international audiences, in the hope of achieving what they have failed to accomplish by bringing in thousands of mercenaries and Arab fighters from across the diaspora, and what billions of dollars and thousands of tonnes of weapons supplied by the UAE and used to devastate Sudan have failed to achieve.

None of that has worked. So what difference could drones possibly make, even if they plunged the entire country’s skies into darkness? A country in which some regions are plunged into darkness by drone attacks is a thousand times better than one ruled by the Janjaweed, controlled by the UAE, and condemned to total darkness in both its present and its future.

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These drones are intended to shatter the morale of the Sudanese people, with the aim of subjugating them and forcing them to surrender to the Emirati-Zionist agenda in the region. This is similar to what the Houthis are currently doing to intimidate Saudi Arabia through drones targeting airports and cities.

On another level, this conduct is nothing more than a desperate expression of successive defeats and the suffocating siege imposed by the Sudanese Armed Forces on the remnants of the militia in Kordofan. Before long, you will hear the news that the entire region has been cleared of the rebellion.

The ongoing campaign to destroy the electricity infrastructure is unfolding along three simultaneous tracks. The first involves intense American pressure, with friendly countries acting as intermediaries. Perhaps the visit by the Secretary-General of the Arab League, who conveyed the latest American messages to President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, was intended to persuade him to accept a temporary truce. Such a move would serve the Republican Party’s campaign ahead of next November’s elections, in which the party is expected to suffer losses and lose control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Before this, Sudan had rejected consideration of any truce requested by friendly countries, not to mention the repeated and resounding failure of the Quad and the quintet to impose the UAE’s agenda on the ground.

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Another track was initiated by 31 countries that declared the existence of a “potential famine” in Sudan. The purpose is not simply to draw attention to genuine dangers threatening the food situation as a result of the war, the El Niño phenomenon, and the scarcity of rainfall. These are undeniable realities that must be taken seriously.

But there is a vast difference between responding to humanitarian conditions and exploiting crises as instruments of coercion under the slogans of humanitarian relief. Calls for a truce and efforts to mobilize the international community against Sudan will achieve no beneficial outcome.

The facts show that Sudan has demonstrated the utmost cooperation in opening routes and corridors for humanitarian assistance, while the militia deliberately intercepts aid convoys, loots their cargo, and destroys them, all amid an astonishing and hypocritical silence from the international community!

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The third track pursued by the militia, with its sponsorship and messaging, involves launching drones from deep inside Ethiopian territory, under an atmosphere of complete international silence intended to allow the scheme to proceed.

The objective is to lure Sudan into launching a counterattack and entering a direct confrontation with Ethiopia, targeting its power stations, water sources, and dams. Only then would the world intervene—not to stop the war against Ethiopia, but to impose peace and a truce by force inside Sudan.

For this reason, we must not be drawn into calls for confrontation with Ethiopia at this stage. We have no interest in doing so. This is a bill that has merely been deferred, and the Ethiopian regime, along with everyone who participated in the aggression against Sudan, will eventually have to pay it. For now, however much Ethiopia opens its territory to military camps, a military response is not an option.

Further confirmation of this scheme lies in the fact that the drones could have been launched from Sudanese territory controlled by the militia rather than from Ethiopian territory.

Sudan is capable of exerting intense political and diplomatic pressure across Africa and the world, while launching a media campaign to expose this scheme. Unfortunately, however, Sudan lacks a government that can think, plan, and act. Instead, it resembles a leaning garbage wall that sways about and strikes the back of the very person who built it.

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The current battle is not merely a military confrontation on the ground or in skies crowded with drones being used in aggression backed by Ethiopia and the UAE. It is a battle of will, existence, and resilience in the face of the most formidable regional and international conspiracies.

Drones and attempts to plunge cities into darkness will not break the resolve of a people who have understood the true nature of this scheme and chosen to stand by their dignity and the sovereignty of their land.

The aggressors and their proxies will eventually realize that Sudan cannot be broken or brought to its knees, and that no matter how long the darkness of night lasts or how oppressive it becomes, the dawn of victory is inevitably coming.