President Biden on Thursday signed an executive order expanding his authorities to impose sanctions on Sudan over the conflict that broke out between rival generals on April 15.
Forces loyal to Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s army chief and de facto leader, have been fighting with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagal, known as Hemedti. The two military leaders have agreed to several ceasefires, but the fighting has not stopped.
In a statement, Biden said the conflict in Sudan “must end.” His order gives him sweeping authorities to sanction any person or entity the US determines is “involved in activities that threaten the peace, security, and stability of Sudan.”
The order said the “situation in Sudan, including the military’s seizure of power in October 2021 and the outbreak of inter-service fighting in April 2023, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
The order said it is US policy to “support a transition to democracy and civilian transitional government in Sudan, to defend such a transitional government from those who would prevent its initial formation through violence.”
The Pentagon has been helping evacuate people from Sudan, and so far, over 1,000 American citizens have left. On Thursday, the Pentagon said the role of US troops in the country is set to change as the US expects the fighting to continue, but declined to say what the changes will be. Three US naval ships are off the coast of Sudan, and one has been transporting people across the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia.
Bye-Done may need a war before it is all said and done…
I’m beginning to believe he’s going to get what he wants. Unless I miss my guess, the first response from Russia will be in Europe or at sea.
Because sanctions will “help”?? He needs a new playbook; this one is old and obsolete. Maybe a real short one, with one play: “GTF out and leave other countries alone”.
The US is like a pack of rodents and roaches.Once they are in they never leave and the dwelling can’t get rid of them.
US created instability is good though, he added.
Guess who just got appointed as a “Columbia University Professor of Practice?” …Africa needs another slave market like it needs a hole in the head.
Here’s a class:
Teacher knows best.
Great, because pouring fuel on the fire is always the right way to dampen the flames. Our overlords are experts.
I’m pretty sure sanctions on that ragtag bunch is not going to have the effects Biden believes they will.
No more clapped-out Toyota pick-ups to mount machine guns on might have an effect but no more international trade isn’t going to make much difference.
US has dumbest foreign policy worldwide. What is sanctions on Sudan supposed to achieve? They are already a failed state. US has broken Sudan five different ways and we ended up here. First they created South Sudan with huge celebrity fan fair. South Sudan ended up in a civil war of their own. It still continues sporadicly up to today. Then, they forced them to get rid of their dictator Omar, and sign peace treaty with Israel, in their implementation of 7 countries in 5 years Zionist Yinon plan, we have ended up in this bloody civil war. Other than implementing Israel’s half baked racist wishes what is US’ agenda? Democracy? Give me a break!!! What this is going to do is make the poor and hungry public in Sudan desperate, and invite Al Qaeda and ISIS to attack ships in the red sea. Awful and idiotic.
“… what is US’ agenda?” You said it yourself the “Yinon plan” “implementing Israel’s racist wishes….” what else? The long war against Islam (aka “terrorism”) was all about that policy expicitated in Richard Perle’s et al ’95 paper “Clean Break”.
The order said the “situation in Sudan, including the military’s seizure of power in October 2021 and the outbreak of inter-service fighting in April 2023, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
A fucking bald-faced lie.
This is why I enjoy your posts so much, wars… You are very cut and dried and there is not much room for misinterpretation.
Thanks Donna. That’s a nice way of saying I’m foul mouthed. Still, a compliment. I was so tempted to say fucking compliment, but I held off.
Go ahead and say it out loud, it is good for your blood pressure.
😉
I did. 😉
There needs to be an entire process to deal with national security fiats like this one. I’m thinking something like this:
The President should have to get Congressional approval to enforce an order like this for more than 90 days.
To get approval, he MUST submit his reasons for deciding that national security is at risk, and those reasons should be published for public viewing where possible.
Finally, sanctioned persons and collateral individuals harmed by such sanctions should have full access to our courts to challenge the President’s decision.
It would be nice, but all the institutions have been politically contaminated that includes the judicial branch.
Corporate MSM is for profit business, a partner of government. It is not the watch dog of the government without which Democracy can not survive.
As it stands, Biden and his neocon cabal can’t do wrong.
I’m also pessimistic. But the more eyes that are on the decision-making process, the better. One example is the sanctions on individuals. It should take more of an argument to seize a yacht than “The Oligarch is rich. He lives in Russia. And he 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 influence Putin favorably if we take his boat.”
Thank you for your candor, wars. Back in 2001 Sudan was on Rumsfeld’s list of 7 nations that needed to be taken out. What makes them an “extraordinary threat to our national security” is that they have lots of resources that need stealing.
“National security”…another US buzzword like “rules based international order” or “antisemitic”. In a parallel universe where corporate media were actually a 4th Estate, reporters would actually challenge this silly nonsense.
Applying sanctions to individuals and businesses for reasons that don’t have to be explained smacks of authoritarianism., and when those individuals reside in other countries, the charge of intervening in the domestic affairs of a foreign government should be added.
More waste of money. Many contractors and NGOs are beating down the politicians’ doors looking for contracts to save the world for democracy. They never heard the word “deficit”.
“Biden Signs Executive Order to Impose Sanctions on Sudan The order gives him the authority to sanction individuals and entities”
Another country destabilized and American troops streaming into to conduct another war. Victoria Nuland’s bloody hands on another civil war and deaths. It looks like another US base for American military added to the 800+ already in existence.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3988867-role-of-us-troops-in-sudan-to-shift-as-biden-administration-sees-no-quick-end-to-fighting/
Two points:
>”Nearly A Third Of The World Economy Is Now Subject To Sanctions”. . from MOA
>Biden chatters about democracy autocracies while he exercises sweeping powers to sanction so many countries and harm so many people in them (and destroys energy pipelines).
We, the USofA demand OUR Dictator ™, not theirs!
Meh? More unilateral imperial sanctions…that the Majority World will ignore. Only a big deal in the Western Mainly White Minority World…which stilllabours underthe misapprehension it calls the shots.