{"id":56813,"date":"2025-11-05T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=56813"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:00:46","slug":"sudan-the-vietnam-of-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/sudan-the-vietnam-of-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan \u2014 the Vietnam of our time"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dr. Salah al-Bandar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hemeti\u2019s speech, negotiation sessions, the cries of the \u201csteadfast,\u201d the occupation of Bara and El Fasher, videos of death and mass executions \u2014 all of it is a new American-Israeli-Emirati domino.<\/p>\n

In this era, Sudan is the new Vietnam in the region: there it was under the pretext of fighting communism; here it is under the pretext of fighting \u201cextremist Islamists.\u201d<\/p>\n

I remember the sanctions on Jibril, Al-Misbah, and the Bara\u2019 Brigades, the statement of the Quartet and their deliberations\u2026 all part of a political operation prepared in Abu Dhabi to subdue the army, the state and the people to the Emirati vision for a political solution in Sudan \u2014 summarized in the Quartet\u2019s statement, and that is not what happened!<\/p>\n

What is unfolding is a drama written by a mocking, derisive devil; yet what is happening is the naked truth and the core of human nature\u2026<\/p>\n

Here, the language of money and petrodollars has prevailed; a new model is taking shape in the region \u2014 a new Zionism whose backbone is the Arabs of the diaspora, new states built on the shoulders of mercenaries who cross continents: modern colonialism in an upgraded version from inside the tents of Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

Shipping companies, supply relocation, via ships and planes, and extraordinary procedures \u2014 the war economy has surpassed twenty billion dollars!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we are fighting an empire that never loses sight of numbers \u2014 an empire of networks of interests, money and business, with a web of spies and agents everywhere: journalists, writers, activists, and women journalists in Port Sudan and Cairo.<\/p>\n

We were defeated from within first\u2026 Political elites who were unequal to the challenge\u2026<\/p>\n

Their eyes were not on Bannusa, El Fasher, Dalanj or Al-Obeid, but on public contracts and gold quadrants, ministries, and their shares of political corruption from the cake\u2026 breakfasts and feasts and social events and weddings\u2026 forgetting what should not be forgotten, doubts becoming certainties, bickering, political folly\u2026 all of them without exception!<\/p>\n

The target is Sudan: its history, identity, and institutions\u2026 a state whose living citizens are older than a truncated state.*<\/p>\n

Dismantling Sudan means isolating Egypt, then dismantling it after the Port Sudan maneuver, and paving the way for greater Israel \u2014 from Iraq to Wadi Halfa. No national or pan-Arab states\u2026 everything is manufactured and falsified, and serves Israel!!<\/p>\n

But\u2026 after the fall of Bara and El Fasher, and the frenzied onslaught from the dirham-and-shalom dogs \u2014 for the first time in my life I find meaning and cry, and feel that I am on the right side of history. Yes \u2014 for the first time in my life I weep, I cannot eat or drink\u2026 And will the heart\u2019s tears avail? The loss of loved ones and the ache of longing for my grandfather?! They will not suffice\u2026<\/p>\n

We will not become a new generation of \u201cRed Indians\u201d in the pages of modern history. We have a chance to organize, and to network the people with the government \u2014 one hand to close the road on the project of domination and subjugation. We will not hand them the Nile, nor the lands, nor the state and the army, nor the gold and uranium mines and livestock wealth. We have a chance to expel them as the Vietnamese rebels expelled 184,000 American soldiers from Vietnam in 1964, after they defeated the project of the informers, just as the Chinese rebels did against the British and the Germans. And we will rise as Japan rose after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<\/p>\n

Everything is possible with faith, planning and boldness. As we did in Jabal Moyya, Sanja, the Dinder, East Nile and Khartoum, we will do it again in Bara, Al-Nahud, El Fasher, Al-Daein, Al-Geneina, Zalingei and Nyala\u2026 This land is ours, not theirs.<\/p>\n

But the leadership in Port Sudan must politically, diplomatically and security-wise recover itself, and must find allies in the true sense (political and existential).<\/p>\n

Allies against this Emirati bullying, and abandon the policy of playing all sides\u2026 No one trusts the mercurial, the hesitant, the cheap trader who bargains away everything\u2026 This world stands at a crossroads\u2026<\/p>\n

Political uncertainty in everything! Yet the one who prevails will be the most effective, organized and mobile\u2026<\/p>\n

No compromise; no dialogue with the scum except\u2026 through the rifle. And as Churchill refused to negotiate with the tiger while its head was between his jaws, and mustered the English armies together with the language and sent them to the battlefield \u2014 so must Burhan act!<\/p>\n

And the martyrs are a fragrance and a balm in the highest gardens with the truthful and the martyrs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dr. Salah al-Bandar Hemeti\u2019s speech, negotiation sessions, the cries of the \u201csteadfast,\u201d the occupation of Bara and El Fasher, videos of death and mass executions \u2014 all of it is a new American-Israeli-Emirati domino. In this era, Sudan is the new Vietnam in the region: there it was under the pretext of fighting communism; …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56814,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56813\/revisions\/56814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}