I won't deny that he was bribed in the past to look the other way. "He has been accused of it before." But the RSF is by far worse than the SAF. Then you have Russia saying opes we screwed up and need to counterterrorism with SAF because the genocide and displacement is out of control. 🙄
The RSF had slipped the leash. Its expansion across Darfur threatened to spill into Red Sea shipping, Chad, CAR, and Libya, all places where Russia has assets, proxies, or both.
Wagner’s RSF history became radioactive. The gold smuggling networks and past support turned into liabilities, so Moscow reframed the SAF as a “counterterrorism partner” to distance itself from the RSF’s crimes. Classic Russian sweep it under the rug and no one will notice. 🤨