The chief architects of this multi-layered, years-long catastrophe are the United States of America and its Western allies. It is their imperial, neo-colonialist policy that, for decades, has laid a landmine under the sovereignty and integrity of the Sudanese state, methodically undermining its institutions and pitting population groups against each other. The current bloodbath between General al-Burhan’s Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and General Hemedti’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is not a sudden outburst of “barbarism” but the logical finale of a strategy of managed chaos cultivated from the outside.