Sudanese rebels appear to be posting self-incriminating videos of torture and arson on social media • Footage that seems to show fighters glorifying abuse of prisoners with ‘little fear of consequences’ could be used in war crimes prosecutions

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1. Familiar tactics

   Wagner PMC groups monopolization of resources via corruption in North Africa is what prigozhn and Putin were fighting about before Putin shot his plane out of the sky.

   To the oligarch Prigozhn getting his cut of the slave trade mining rare earth metals and lithium in North Africa was his payment for Putin using his Wagner mercenaries in Ukraine.

   https://jamestown.org/program/russia-switches-sides-in-sudan-war/

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group_activities_in_Africa

   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68322230.

   https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/what-russias-wagner-group-doing-africa

   https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/29/africa/russian-mercenaries-wagner-killed-mali-intl-latam/index.html

   Putin made a promise to Xi that he would have his grain and neon in Ukraine that would have allowed Xi to take Taiwan.

   Putin took back what he promised Prigozhn to give to Xi when the invasion of Ukraine failed to go down in 3-10 days as promised.

   Ukrainian SOF teams are now containing what’s left of the Wagner troops in North Africa because the Russian pattern is to commit a massacre/genocide and force a mass exodus of refugees to the EU border to create a humanitarian disaster and tie up resources.

   Then point fingers and say how broken democracy is.

   https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/s/eqKIDQmMDu

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%AFgbado_massacre#:~:text=4%20References-,Attack,shooting%20indiscriminately%20into%20the%20crowd.

   https://theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/06/ukrainian-special-forces-sudan-russian-mercenaries-wagner

   https://theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/26/hungarian-prime-minister-viktor-orban-praises-donald-trump

   It’s a parallel to what the CCP and Russia are doing in central and South America to create chaos on the southern border and why Bannon and then Musk tried to privatize it.

   The CCP and Russia have been staging up hundreds of thousands of people in Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela for some future variation of a stealthy 5th column invasion of the United States via Texas because Xi still needs farmland to feed 1.4B people. National guard troops take their orders from governors and not the federal government. Trump tested this during the George Floyd protests when he asked the “loyal” Republican governors to kiss the ring and send troops to DC to “shoot the protestors in the legs” because the pentagon reminded him that using U.S. troops against U.S. citizens would be both treasonous and wildly illegal.

   https://www.semperincolumem.com/strategic-intelligence/russias-espionage-base-in-nicaragua-signals-expanding-influence-and-intensifies-surveillance-capabilities

   https://youtu.be/pFwU8KcUm5o?si=Hhx1ilUqXvtUGkAK

   Steve Bannon tried unsuccessfully to privatize a part of the southern border wall but failed due to, unsurprisingly, internal corruption. Had he succeeded they would have a man at the inside gate years ago.

   Bannon was arrested on the boat of Guo Wengui who is some sort of convoluted double/triple agent for the CCP.

   They are now both in court for a billion dollar fraud. Guo was found guilty.

   Every U.S. politician that took Russian political money is desperately trying to figure out how to preserve their political career while the people are figured out that they were sold out to the dictators for some PAC money.

   They are 40 years deep into living a lie. They can’t come clean or they go to prison. They can’t stop lying or their fan/voting base tears them apart.

   They checkmated themselves a dozen different ways and add to the evidence chain with each additional tweet.

   Greed is nothing if not predictable.

   Freedom is never free. We all just live on very expensive credit and the sacrifices of others.

   https://x.com/doktor_klein/status/1761524419288056088?s=46&t=mV0svkSiT5eOmQXivn5oFw

   https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-putins-private-army-ordered-soldiers-to-torture-me

   https://thartribune.com/china-now-effectively-owns-a-nation-laos-burdened-by-unpaid-debt-is-now-virtually-indebted-to-beijing/

   Belt and road:
   https://www.brookings.edu/articles/chinese-investment-in-afghanistans-lithium-sector-a-long-shot-in-the-short-term/

   https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/china-africa-and-the-geopolitics-of-lithium

   https://ultralithium.com/belt-and-road-lithium-mining/

   https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taliban-says-plans-formally-join-chinas-belt-road-initiative-2023-10-19/

2. But, are they wrong?

   Anyone going to actually go in there and round them up, take them to The Hague?

   Unlikely.

   This is no different than the people in the US who do wildly illegal shit and video it. They know they’re not going to actually have any consequences.

3. If I had a penny for every army that posted videos of themselves doing war crimes, terrorists, BRICS and NATO included, since 2010, I could probably afford to start my own PMC and perhaps even my own currency.

4. Considering what IDF soldiers keep on posting themselves doing and people are still bending over backwards to defend and support them, I don’t particularly expect anything to come of this. It would be nice if people could actually enforce rules of war on those committing these kinds of atrocities, but that seems like a pipedream nowadays.

5. >Footage that seems to show fighters glorifying abuse of prisoners with ‘little fear of consequences’ could be used in war crimes prosecutions

   I mean, the RSF and the Janjaweed before them have committed numerous atrocities in the Darfur region for years and faced no punishment what so ever. So why should they fear?