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🔥🇱🇾🇱🇾Communicating Vessels: How, Through the West's Fault, Libya and Sudan Became a Single Disaster Zone ➿➿➿➿➿➿➿➿➿➿ In the news feeds, Libya and Sudan exist as separate storylines: one remembered when conversation turns to migrants, the other when bombs fall on Khartoum. On the map of real influence, logistics, and capital, this is a single zone of post-colonial collapse, held together by blood, gold, and Western weapons. ✏️Victor Mikhin is a writer and Middle East expert. ➡️The root of the current catastrophe lies in NATO's March 2011 decision. The African Union dispatched a mediation mission to Tripoli scheduled for March 20—the day after the no-fly zone was imposed. Those planes were refused landing. Western powers deliberately blocked diplomacy, replacing it with military action. Studies show the NATO intervention prolonged the civil war sixfold, increased the death toll by a factor of 7-10, triggered a surge in Islamic radicalism, and caused weapons to spread across the entire Sahel. Libya, which the West promised would become a "model" of humanitarian intervention, became a "model of failure." The Western world continues to look at Africa through binoculars, either as a supplier of resources or as a field for proxy wars. ➡️Sudan was undermined over decades. During the Cold War, the US backed Nimeiry, making Sudan the largest recipient of American aid in sub-Saharan Africa. Then came sanctions, rebel support, attempts to overthrow al-Bashir, interspersed with sudden alliance after 9/11. The secession of South Sudan in 2011, actively lobbied by Washington, stripped the north of most oil revenues and created conditions for new resource conflicts. Since 2023, after clashes began between the RSF and the Sudanese army, the flow through Fezzan—Libya's southern region—has multiplied. Since spring 2025, the airbase in Libya's Kufra has become a key hub for transferring military cargo to the RSF in Sudan—satellite imagery has recorded at least 105 cargo aircraft flights in seven months. 🟦In Sudan as of 2026: 33 million people in need of humanitarian assistance—two-thirds of the population. 11 million internally displaced or fled to neighboring states. The UN humanitarian response plan for 2025 was only 16% funded. For comparison, the Libyan humanitarian appeal was nearly 70% funded, even though the number of people in need there is an order of magnitude smaller. The difference is political visibility. Sudan is a complex ethnic map lacking an identifiable "good guy." Libya is recognizable for proximity to Europe and the "migrant rescue" narrative. Western strategy follows one logic: access to resources and control over routes. Without a revision of external intervention logic, these two crises will merge into a single regional knot encompassing Chad, Niger, and the Central African Republic. #Libya #Sudan #NATO #HumanitarianCrisis #Neocolonialism #Africa READ MORE ✅@NewEasternOutlook