Basically Ukraine had a lot of small "security" (mercenary) groups post 2014. In the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, those group were basically told "please go oppose Wagner in Africa", and some found themselves in Soudan (and other in Armenia). I'm not sure if now they're paid by local forces. I don't have any information post-war though, my friend left the comapny and came back in France since the war.
Whenever any country falls into instability, people try to get away as far as possible. A huge chunk of the European populations of North & South America, Australia, etc. were fleeing persecution, war, and just general disorder.
Their only advantage was that these didn't have states organized enough to stop European settlers. Right or wrong, if you don't use state resources to stop refugees, you don't get to complain.
Iran 3.5 million
Türkiye 2.9 million
Colombia 2.8 million
Germany 2.7 million
Uganda 1.8 million
Pakistan 1.6 million
Chad 1.3 million
Poland 1 million
Ethiopia 1 million
Bangladesh 1 million
Source: UNCHR, https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics
If war breaks out in Finland there will be a swell of Finnish refugees entering Sweden and Norway but I do not foresee them flying halfway across the globe to request asylum in Afghanistan even if that country were to be flourishing then. Why, then, is the opposite seen as normal?
In theory the political systems we have here in western Europe which are based around forming coalition governments should allow for reaching compromises between the 'open borders' factions and the opposing 'our nation comes first' factions. In reality things often don't work that way due to the practice of shunning those parties which claim to want to act on the calls for more stringent migration policies, labelling them 'far-right/racist/xenophobic' and turning them into pariahs. The proponents of this practice do not seem to realise all they achieve is more polarisation and further radicalisation on all sides of the spectrum and that a single large event could end up giving power to one of those radicalised factions whether that be in their envisioned 'nazi takeover' style or along the lines of the premise of Houellebecq's 'Soumission' which foresees islamic law being implemented in France. A more likely outcome is for more countries to drop out of the EU to create local blocks like the Visegrad countries and the Nordic countries.
Which is demonstrably false, since Europe has fewer refugees than African, South American or Middle Eastern countries, in absolute numbers and percentage of population and financial resources.
Your claim that "countries both border those where the conflicts are and are ethnically and culturally similar to the conflicted regions" is similarly coarse and clueless, like a Chinese person saying Spain and Finland are ethnically and culturally similar because both are Western.
You also seem to have forgotten to switch back to your sockpuppet account.
My whole shtick here on this forum is that I just say what I think without worrying over whatever 'karma' hits I might get. Given that no sockpuppets are needed when you follow that approach I'm really curious to learn I seem to have some so, educate us.
And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Mission_in_Sout...
But the scale of the conflict is beyond all comprehension. And capacity to make a difference outside of proxy funding by state actors is minimal.
The flip flopping list of allies and opponents is a tangible primer on the last couple of years in geopolitics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Support_Forces
That campaign helped Hemedti build up his profile, eventually become one of Sudan's power brokers (kinda like Prigozhin to Putin), amass eye-watering amounts of money (from gold mines yielding bullion that's laundered in Dubai), which in the latter case has been used to arm a substantial personal army.
The RSF were joined at the hip with the Sudanese Army until 2023 when they tried toppling the military to seize power and make Hemedti the national leader.
is kind of not in the article or it's title.
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