🇸🇩Why Is The Media Focusing on the Sudan Conflict Now? | This Week in GeoPolitics | #BitcoinHardTalk Ep.104 (Part 3)

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If you follow global news, you may have noticed a sudden, intense uptick in media coverage of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. While the situation is dire, the timing and coordination of this new focus—spanning Western media, Al Jazeera, the United Nations, and even street protests—suggest something more is at play than simple reporting.

This is a deliberate geopolitical maneuver. The media is being used as a tool to gain leverage in a much larger global negotiation. To understand what’s truly happening in Sudan, we must first look at the resolution of the conflict in Gaza and the historic power shift it represents.

1. The Bigger Picture: A Managed Transition in the Middle East

The events unfolding in Gaza are not just a regional conflict; they represent a "managed divorce" between the United States and Israel, marking the definitive end of the post-WWII Bretton Woods financial order. This is a seismic event, and it is the necessary backdrop for understanding the new fronts opening up in this global transition.

The key outcomes of this managed transition are:

• US Plausible Deniability: The US is strategically distancing itself from the "genocide" in Gaza, allowing it to preserve its global image while the old order is dismantled.
• Rise of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): As Israeli nationalized assets go bankrupt, Gulf countries are positioned to acquire them. The GCC is set to manage the region's future security and economic infrastructure.
• A New Levant: The entire region is being restructured under the control of the GCC, which has already normalized relations with its former rival, Iran, in a deal brokered by China through their BRICS partnership.
• The End of the "Greater Israel Project": This long-standing project, effectively a proxy for the American military-industrial complex, is over. The new focus is on creating regional stability managed by regional powers like Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, and the GCC. We are already seeing concrete evidence of this, as one of the major Israeli steel firms recently went into bankruptcy after Turkey sanctioned the company.

This massive shift in the Middle East is closing one chapter of geopolitical negotiation. The old guard knows the deal in Palestine is nearly done, and their leverage is disappearing. This creates a race against the clock, forcing them to open a new front to weaken their rivals before the new Middle East order is finalized. Sudan is that new front.

2. The Core Conflict: "Proof of Weapons Network" vs. The New World Order

To understand the battlefield, you have to know the players. This global struggle is between two primary forces with completely different models.

The "Proof of Weapons Network" This is the Western military-industrial complex, operating through the US government to serve corporate interests, not the American people. Its old model of control relied on:

• Fomenting instability in foreign nations to justify a military presence and extract resources.
• Imposing neoliberalism. This creates a specific chain of dependency: first comes financialization and securitization, which then leads to currency warfare, crippling IMF debt, and total dependency on the US dollar.

The BRICS/GCC Alliance This is the rising multipolar power structure focused on a completely different model:

• Establishing regional stability and empowering a multipolar world.
• Controlling vital resources, particularly energy (the petrodollar and yuan-dollar) and the rare earth minerals required for modern technology.
• Advancing de-dollarization by creating alternative financial rails and trade routes.

The "Proof of Weapons Network" is not fighting to win; it is negotiating the terms of a US and western managed decline. The media is one of its primary tools for gaining a better position at the bargaining table.

3. Sudan: The New Leverage Point

The recent flood of media coverage about Sudan is a coordinated "operation to bring attention" for political leverage. It's a preemptive strike. The goal is not just humanitarian awareness but to influence the ongoing global power negotiations by attacking a key member of the rising bloc.

The internal conflict in Sudan is complex, but for the purpose of following the money, the key factions are:

So, why is this happening now? 

Because the "Proof of Weapons Network" needs to ruin the UAE's reputation.

The UAE is a central pillar of the rising GCC bloc. By tarnishing the UAE's image on the global stage, the old Western guard hopes to weaken the entire GCC, giving itself more bargaining power in the handover of control over Africa's vast resources and the future of global finance.

4. Deconstructing the Media Narrative

The story being pushed by the media is simple and emotionally charged:

"The UAE is committing genocide in order to steal gold."

The reality, as always, is far more nuanced. While gold stolen from Sudan has indeed been sold in Dubai's markets (the "suks"), this is a complex issue that has been going on for a long time, often involving Sudanese people themselves selling the gold directly. There is no evidence this gold is flowing into the UAE's sovereign wealth fund. This long-standing practice is now being weaponized into a simple, powerful narrative.

The purpose of this media campaign is twofold:

1. It creates a "blame-shift" designed to give the US and its allies a veneer of "moral credibility." By pointing fingers at the crimes against humanity the UAE is involved with in Sudan, they attempt to create a moral equivalency that distracts from the West’s association with Israel’s actions in Gaza.
2. It directly attacks a key player (the UAE) in the rising economic bloc that is challenging the dollar-based system.

5. Conclusion: What This Means and How to Prepare

The media's sudden focus on Sudan is not an isolated event. It is a clear signal of the intensifying currency and resource wars that are defining the transition of the US from a global hegemon to a regional power.

Be warned: as the "Proof of Weapons Network" loses its ability to extract profits from abroad, it will inevitably turn its machinery inward. It will need to "make up for lost profits at home and in the Latin American European region," which will lead to more manufactured civil unrest and economic hardship in the West.

It is critical to understand that you are living through a historic transition. The fall of one system is the rise of another. 

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I want you to always stay on the right side of this change. Always remember you are alive at one of the most interesting and exciting times in financial history. Some are going to get wrecked, others are going to do well. I want you to stay on the right side of the change.

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